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The Coalition on Digital Impact (CODI) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the “Guidelines for Advancing Universal Acceptance Adoption” draft published by ICANN’s Universal Acceptance Expert Working Group. CODI is a nonprofit organization focused on ensuring that people can access and navigate the Internet in their own language and that linguistic diversity is supported across digital systems and platforms.
Universal Acceptance (UA) is foundational to building a truly multilingual Internet. We strongly support ICANN’s continued leadership in promoting UA adoption across the technical ecosystem and commend the working group for developing a comprehensive framework spanning technical stakeholders, governments, developers, and academia.
Our comments are presented in the attachment and focus on several areas where CODI believes the guidelines could be strengthened to better address application-layer barriers, developer tooling, and measurement of real-world user experience.
CODI strongly supports ICANN’s ongoing leadership in advancing Universal Acceptance and welcomes the comprehensive approach outlined in the draft guidelines. Ensuring that all valid domain names and email addresses function seamlessly across the Internet is essential to building a multilingual and inclusive digital ecosystem.
Our comments in the attachment focus on several areas where CODI believes the guidelines could be strengthened to better address application-layer barriers, developer tooling, and measurement of real-world user experience.
(The attachement is in lieu of completing this form).
The Coalition on Digital Impact (CODI) strongly supports ICANN’s ongoing leadership in advancing Universal Acceptance and welcomes the comprehensive approach outlined in the draft guidelines. Ensuring that all valid domain names and email addresses function seamlessly across the Internet is essential to building a multilingual and inclusive digital ecosystem.
We recommend strengthening the guidelines across several areas, focusing on application-layer barriers, developer tooling, and user experience, to help ensure that UA adoption translates into meaningful improvements in how people interact with the Internet in their own languages.
We look forward to continued collaboration with ICANN and the broader community to advance these goals.