Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Background
Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition, consumer choice and innovation in the domain name industry. To achieve Universal Acceptance, Internet applications and systems must treat all TLDs in a consistent manner, including new gTLDs and internationalized TLDs. Specifically, they must accept, validate, store, process and display all domain names.
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group is a community-based team working to share this vision for the Internet of the future with those who construct this space: coders. The group’s primary objective is to help software developers and website owners understand how to update their systems to keep pace with an evolving domain name system (DNS).
The Work
The work will be occasional and sporadic.
The work is to take near final drafts of technical documents prepared in English and to ensure that their grammar, syntax, spelling, clarity and other language attributes are good – basic copyediting.
The current list of documents (some still in draft form) can be found at https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/Documents.
The work will be performed as an independent contractor.
Desired Characteristics
- You must be aware of technical Internet issues and must be fluent in English
- Applicants can be from an individual, group of individuals, or organization
- Experience in copyediting documents from a technical community
Next Steps
Please provide us with:
- A brief statement of interest and why you want to do this work and why we should want you to do this work
- An indication of expected turnaround time.
- A CV
- A sample of similar activity
- A rate (in US$) inclusive of all costs and the basis for the cost.
(Per word, page, document) - Full contact details
- Two referees
Deadline for receipt of expressions of interest:
23:00 UTC 25 March 2016
Send completed expressions to: don.hollander@icann.org
If you have any questions, please send those to don.hollander@icann.org
Please allow 24 hours for answers.
We expect to reach out to a short list of candidates within one week of the closing time.
