January 2026 - ccNSO-UACommittee

planning session for ICANN85 UA Roundtable | 4 February 2026 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar Jan. 28, 2026

Jan. 28, 2026

Planning session UA Roundtable at ICANN85 Tech Day. 4 February at 13 UTC Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (49) is scheduled for 28 January 2026 at 13:00 UTC An agenda will be circulated prior to the call. Please find the call details below: Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/91427477253?pwd=VFh2ck9NczlLMXdRTjhYUlRHWHFOdz09 Meeting ID: 914 2747 7253 Passcode: ccNSO-UAC1 Dial in Passcode: 5321318135 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/adKGO9HP2S Thank you!

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Please review | session proposal to be finalized by end of the week.
by Joke Braeken Jan. 28, 2026

Jan. 28, 2026

Dear Eberhard, dear Masha, dear All Thank you very much for the feedback, Eberhard and Masha. Here is a summary of the proposed changes compared to the previous session proposal circulated. Unless there are any concerns raised by the end of the week (Friday, 30 January, COB), the suggestion is to move forward with implementing this proposal. * The session will now be held in block 3, and will have a 75 min. duration, as suggested by Eberhard * Sameer Gahlot, Research Associate at NIXI has confirmed his availability, and so did Arnt. As Regina will not attend ICANN85 in person, would you be available to chair the session, @Abdalmonem Galila<mailto:atharwat@tra.gov.eg> ? * UAC previously requested to accommodate additional speakers. With a 75 min. session, one additional presenter could be included. See the proposal below. @Vadim Mikhaylov<mailto:mva@cctld.ru> does this work, from your perspective? * Regarding the discussion, the proposal would be to focus on how AI can be applied to address UA challenges. Please note: The UAC meeting initially scheduled for tomorrow, 28 January will be deferred by one week (same time). The planning team and confirmed presenters will be invited to join the session in Mumbai, as well as next week’s planning meeting. Duration Time local Topic Who Speaker Status 2 min. housekeeping Secretariat 2 min. Intro by Session chair Abdalmonem Galila, Egypt IDN ccTLD and UAC Chair TBD 15 min. What is the current status? a1/ technical UA readiness for the .in ccTLD manager Sameer Gahlot, .in confirmed 15 min. What is the current status? a2/ technical UA readiness for the .ru ccTLD manager Vadim Mikhailov, .ru suggested by planning team. not yet invited 15 min. What is the current status? b/ Overview of current developments, “open source” and RFC 9873 Arnt Gulbrandsen, ICANN confirmed 30 min. Roundtable: presenters, panelists, audience. Discussion moderated by Session chair * Can AI meaningfully advance UA readiness and/or adoption? * If so, how can AI be applied to address UA challenges? * How is this relevant to ccTLDs? Potential panel members: * Edmon Chung, * Michael Bauland, Knipp (Chair LD PDP) * Sameer Gahlot, .in * Vadim Mikhailov, .ru * Sami Mohamed Ali, .bh (Expert Group) suggested by planning team. not yet invited 5 min. Wrap-up by session chair See above TBD Thank you. Best regards, Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> From: Maria Kolesnikova <masha(a)cctld.ru> Date: Monday, 26 January 2026 at 17:00 To: "ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org" <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org> Cc: Joke Braeken <joke.braeken(a)icann.org>, 'Eberhard W Lisse' <el(a)lisse.NA>, "ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org" <ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org> Subject: [Ext] RE: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear All, Are we planning to discuss the proposed way forward regarding the joint UAC and Tech WG session at ICANN85 at the nearest UAC call this week? I’d like to clarify some moments: 1. If we consider “AI for UA” as the main topic for the RT, then what aspects of AI we are going to discuss? 2. As this is the Tech session, I’d suggest to replace me by Vadim Mikhailov (infrastructure consultant at .ru/.рф registry) as he is a technical expert and will better fit to this discussion. On AI aspects or others. See you all at the call. Best, Maria Kolesnikova From: Joke Braeken via ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2026 6:18 PM To: ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org; Eberhard W Lisse <el(a)lisse.NA>; ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org Subject: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear UAC members, dear Eberhard and Tech WG members, Thanks all for the suggestions and feedback you provided. Based on the input received, Bart prepared a proposed way forward regarding the joint UAC and Tech WG session at ICANN85. I am forwarding on his behalf, as he is currently have some e-mail issues. Duration Time local Topic Who Speaker Status 2 min. housekeeping Secretariat 2 min. Intro by Session chair Either Regina, Abdalmonem, or Sami? TBD 10 min. What is the current status? a/ impact UA readiness case India NIXI, or someone suggested by NIXI? TBD 15 min. What is the current status? b/ Overview of current developments “open source” and RFC 9873 Arnt Gulbrandsen? TBD 30 min. Roundtable: presenters, panelists, audience. Discussion moderated by Session chair * AI support UA and how? * What is most promising area in your view ? * How would this affect the industry? · Edmon Chung, chair Member UA Expert group · Michael Bauland, · Maria Kolesnikova TBD 5 min. Wrap-up by session chair See above TBD Please find further details in the draft briefing paper for this session: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYD681KXEjM-eLyHZwDckqN3syQLF4sAK-VVHQf… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1sYD681KXEjM-…> Please send any feedback at your earliest convenience, in reply to all, latest by next week Monday, COB. Thank you. Best regards. Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> From: Maria Kolesnikova <masha(a)cctld.ru<mailto:masha@cctld.ru>> Date: Thursday, 15 January 2026 at 16:28 To: "ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org<mailto:ccnso-uacommittee@icann.org>" <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org<mailto:ccnso-uacommittee@icann.org>>, Joke Braeken <joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>>, Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org<mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org>> Cc: "el(a)lisse.NA<mailto:el@lisse.NA>" <el(a)lisse.NA<mailto:el@lisse.NA>> Subject: [Ext] FW: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Re: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) + ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org<mailto:ccnso-uacommittee@icann.org> From: Maria Kolesnikova <masha(a)cctld.ru<mailto:masha@cctld.ru>> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 6:20 PM To: 'Joke Braeken' <joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>>; 'Bart Boswinkel' <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org<mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org>> Cc: 'el(a)lisse.na' <el(a)lisse.na<mailto:el@lisse.na>> Subject: RE: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Re: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear all, I would like to suggest the following potential topics/speakers for UAC + Tech Day (Monday 9 March, block 4), for your consideration: 1. It would be good to ask NIXI or another representative from the host country to make overview of their EAI project in Rajasthan with the main focus on the current status/how many EAI addresses are in real use now/what problems have been faced/what results have been achieved and other possible details. More on the RajMail project here: https://uasg.tech/2018/12/rajasthan-states-new-email-project-brings-million… [uasg.tech]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uasg.tech/2018/12/rajasthan-states-new-e…> This project could be a good example of how to implement EAI with government support. 1. A new Request for Comments has become available in online RFC libraries recently. It concerns EPP Protocol and EAI thematic. As variant, we could ask one of its authors to talk about the main scope of this new RFC. RFC 9873 Title: Additional Email Address Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Author: D. Belyavsky, J. Gould, S. Hollenbeck Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: October 2025 Mailbox: beldmit(a)gmail.com<mailto:beldmit@gmail.com>, jgould(a)verisign.com<mailto:jgould@verisign.com>, shollenbeck(a)verisign.com<mailto:shollenbeck@verisign.com> Pages: 22 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai-27.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873 [rfc-editor.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873__;!!PtGJ…> DOI: 10.17487/RFC9873 The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) does not inherently support internationalized email addresses because the specifications for these addresses did not exist when EPP was developed. This document describes a command-response extension that adds support for associating an additional email address with an EPP contact object. That additional email address can be either an internationalized email address or an ASCII-only address. 1. Presentation on the latest technical developments re UA readiness with the main focus on the world’s big tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) + the most popular open source software (particularly, manufacturers of mail software with EAI support) + manufacturers of hosting panels (Cpanel, Plesk, etc.) could be provided by Arnt Gulbrandsen arnt.gulbrandsen(a)icann.org<mailto:arnt.gulbrandsen@icann.org> probably. He is from the ICANN technical staff. Although, I believe it’s better to check with Arnt if he is providing any similar update at another ICANN85’s Prep week or the meeting sections. If not, then this update would be very useful for the ccNSO and more broader ICANN community. We also discussed that the UA Roadmap for registries and registrars, developed by ICANN (https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-publishes-ua-roadmap-f…) could be of some interest for ccTLDs, so ICANN staff could cover this topic, too. For this, we could at least ask Arnt to shortly remind about this document for ccTLDs during his speech, if there is no enough time for a separate speaker at the Tech Day section Block 4 (60 min). As a variant, the UA roadmap could become a basis for a separate technical webinar/training by ICANN for ccTLDs, gTLDs and registrars on how to make their registries/registration systems UA Ready…just thoughts. 1. If we want to cover ccTLD or gTLD cases re UA Readiness, I could suggest our Cyrillic IDN TLD .РФ story. We have implemented EAI support in most parts of our infrastructure and also are planning this year to add EAI support into the registry. The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ or the Technical Center of Internet’s speaker could present this topic in details. Hope it helps. Maria From: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org<mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org>> Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 13:46 To: ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:ccnso-uacommittee-bounces@icann.org>> Cc: "el(a)lisse.na<mailto:el@lisse.na>" <el(a)lisse.na<mailto:el@lisse.na>> Subject: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear all, As you will recall from last meetings before the break, the UAC needs to agree on proposal on the format and presenters for the roundtable during Tech Day in Mumbai. To date the following was discussed: * Presentation from Nixi or other organization involved in technical aspects of UA in India (presenter to be identified) * Presentation on latest technical developments re UA readiness. Proposal for discussion * Assuming UA is relevant for TLD operators, presentation and discussion on current state of play and what needs to happen to make a registry UA ready from a technical operational perspective. Invite members of ICANN UA technical expert group, and one or two registry operators (cccTLD and gTLD) Suggest this is main topic for discussion tomorrow on the UA call Kind regards, Bart

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UA/IDN round table
by Michael Bauland Jan. 28, 2026

Jan. 28, 2026

Hi, Eberhard mentioned that there might be a round table about UA and IDN topics at the tech day. Are you still looking for participants for that event? If so, do you already know a bit more details about the topics to be discussed? Depending on the actual topics, I might be able to contribute to the discussions. My background knowledge/experience around UA/IDN: * I was a member of the Latin GP creating the Latin part of the RZ-LGR. * I contributed to UA Roadmap for Domain Registry and Registry Systems. * I was a participant of the ccPDP4. * I was a member of the IDN EPDP. * I am currently chairing the LD PDP. Cheers, Michael -- ____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Germany Dipl.-Informatiker Fon: +49 231 9703-0 Fax: +49 231 9703-200 Dr. Michael Bauland SIP: Michael.Bauland(a)knipp.de Software Development E-mail: Michael.Bauland(a)knipp.de Register Court: Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728 Chief Executive Officers: Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp Certified according DIN ISO/IEC 27001:2017

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (49) | 4 February 2026 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar Jan. 27, 2026

Jan. 27, 2026

The UAC call originally scheduled for 28 January has been deferred by one week. New time and date: 4 February at 13 UTC Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (49) is scheduled for 28 January 2026 at 13:00 UTC An agenda will be circulated prior to the call. Please find the call details below: Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/91427477253?pwd=VFh2ck9NczlLMXdRTjhYUlRHWHFOdz09 Meeting ID: 914 2747 7253 Passcode: ccNSO-UAC1 Dial in Passcode: 5321318135 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/adKGO9HP2S Thank you!

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Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4)
by Joke Braeken Jan. 26, 2026

Jan. 26, 2026

Dear UAC members, dear Eberhard and Tech WG members, Thanks all for the suggestions and feedback you provided. Based on the input received, Bart prepared a proposed way forward regarding the joint UAC and Tech WG session at ICANN85. I am forwarding on his behalf, as he is currently have some e-mail issues. Duration Time local Topic Who Speaker Status 2 min. housekeeping Secretariat 2 min. Intro by Session chair Either Regina, Abdalmonem, or Sami? TBD 10 min. What is the current status? a/ impact UA readiness case India NIXI, or someone suggested by NIXI? TBD 15 min. What is the current status? b/ Overview of current developments “open source” and RFC 9873 Arnt Gulbrandsen? TBD 30 min. Roundtable: presenters, panelists, audience. Discussion moderated by Session chair * AI support UA and how? * What is most promising area in your view ? * How would this affect the industry? · Edmon Chung, chair Member UA Expert group · Michael Bauland, · Maria Kolesnikova TBD 5 min. Wrap-up by session chair See above TBD Please find further details in the draft briefing paper for this session: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYD681KXEjM-eLyHZwDckqN3syQLF4sAK-VVHQf… Please send any feedback at your earliest convenience, in reply to all, latest by next week Monday, COB. Thank you. Best regards. Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> From: Maria Kolesnikova <masha(a)cctld.ru> Date: Thursday, 15 January 2026 at 16:28 To: "ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org" <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org>, Joke Braeken <joke.braeken(a)icann.org>, Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org> Cc: "el(a)lisse.NA" <el(a)lisse.NA> Subject: [Ext] FW: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Re: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) + ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org<mailto:ccnso-uacommittee@icann.org> From: Maria Kolesnikova <masha(a)cctld.ru> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 6:20 PM To: 'Joke Braeken' <joke.braeken(a)icann.org>; 'Bart Boswinkel' <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org> Cc: 'el(a)lisse.na' <el(a)lisse.na> Subject: RE: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Re: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear all, I would like to suggest the following potential topics/speakers for UAC + Tech Day (Monday 9 March, block 4), for your consideration: 1. It would be good to ask NIXI or another representative from the host country to make overview of their EAI project in Rajasthan with the main focus on the current status/how many EAI addresses are in real use now/what problems have been faced/what results have been achieved and other possible details. More on the RajMail project here: https://uasg.tech/2018/12/rajasthan-states-new-email-project-brings-million… [uasg.tech]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uasg.tech/2018/12/rajasthan-states-new-e…> This project could be a good example of how to implement EAI with government support. 1. A new Request for Comments has become available in online RFC libraries recently. It concerns EPP Protocol and EAI thematic. As variant, we could ask one of its authors to talk about the main scope of this new RFC. RFC 9873 Title: Additional Email Address Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Author: D. Belyavsky, J. Gould, S. Hollenbeck Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: October 2025 Mailbox: beldmit(a)gmail.com<mailto:beldmit@gmail.com>, jgould(a)verisign.com<mailto:jgould@verisign.com>, shollenbeck(a)verisign.com<mailto:shollenbeck@verisign.com> Pages: 22 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai-27.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873 [rfc-editor.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873__;!!PtGJ…> DOI: 10.17487/RFC9873 The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) does not inherently support internationalized email addresses because the specifications for these addresses did not exist when EPP was developed. This document describes a command-response extension that adds support for associating an additional email address with an EPP contact object. That additional email address can be either an internationalized email address or an ASCII-only address. 1. Presentation on the latest technical developments re UA readiness with the main focus on the world’s big tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) + the most popular open source software (particularly, manufacturers of mail software with EAI support) + manufacturers of hosting panels (Cpanel, Plesk, etc.) could be provided by Arnt Gulbrandsen arnt.gulbrandsen(a)icann.org<mailto:arnt.gulbrandsen@icann.org> probably. He is from the ICANN technical staff. Although, I believe it’s better to check with Arnt if he is providing any similar update at another ICANN85’s Prep week or the meeting sections. If not, then this update would be very useful for the ccNSO and more broader ICANN community. We also discussed that the UA Roadmap for registries and registrars, developed by ICANN (https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-publishes-ua-roadmap-f…) could be of some interest for ccTLDs, so ICANN staff could cover this topic, too. For this, we could at least ask Arnt to shortly remind about this document for ccTLDs during his speech, if there is no enough time for a separate speaker at the Tech Day section Block 4 (60 min). As a variant, the UA roadmap could become a basis for a separate technical webinar/training by ICANN for ccTLDs, gTLDs and registrars on how to make their registries/registration systems UA Ready…just thoughts. 1. If we want to cover ccTLD or gTLD cases re UA Readiness, I could suggest our Cyrillic IDN TLD .РФ story. We have implemented EAI support in most parts of our infrastructure and also are planning this year to add EAI support into the registry. The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ or the Technical Center of Internet’s speaker could present this topic in details. Hope it helps. Maria From: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org<mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org>> Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 13:46 To: ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:ccnso-uacommittee-bounces@icann.org>> Cc: "el(a)lisse.na<mailto:el@lisse.na>" <el(a)lisse.na<mailto:el@lisse.na>> Subject: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear all, As you will recall from last meetings before the break, the UAC needs to agree on proposal on the format and presenters for the roundtable during Tech Day in Mumbai. To date the following was discussed: * Presentation from Nixi or other organization involved in technical aspects of UA in India (presenter to be identified) * Presentation on latest technical developments re UA readiness. Proposal for discussion * Assuming UA is relevant for TLD operators, presentation and discussion on current state of play and what needs to happen to make a registry UA ready from a technical operational perspective. Invite members of ICANN UA technical expert group, and one or two registry operators (cccTLD and gTLD) Suggest this is main topic for discussion tomorrow on the UA call Kind regards, Bart

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (49) | 28 January 2026 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar Jan. 23, 2026

Jan. 23, 2026

***REMINDER*** Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (49) is scheduled for 28 January 2026 at 13:00 UTC An agenda will be circulated prior to the call. Please find the call details below: Join Zoom Meeting https://icann.zoom.us/j/91427477253?pwd=VFh2ck9NczlLMXdRTjhYUlRHWHFOdz09 Meeting ID: 914 2747 7253 Passcode: ccNSO-UAC1 Dial in Passcode: 5321318135 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/adKGO9HP2S Thank you!

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Re: NOTES | UAC | 14 January 2026 (8 UTC)
by Seda Akbulut Jan. 16, 2026

Jan. 16, 2026

Hi all, I was not able to join the last call. Here are some updates about the UA Day: The shortlisted events are published on our website<https://universalacceptance.day/>. We posted them right before the holiday break, as promised on 22 December. We keep adding volunteer events as they come. Please see the schedule of UA Day 2026 events here<https://www.icann.org/ua-day-2026-events-en>. Regards, Seda From: Joke Braeken via ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org> Reply to: Joke Braeken <joke.braeken(a)icann.org> Date: 14 January 2026 Wednesday at 12:02 To: "ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org" <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org> Subject: [ccNSO-UACommittee] NOTES | UAC | 14 January 2026 (8 UTC) NOTES | UAC | 14 January 2026 (8 UTC) 1. Welcome Welcome by Abdalmonem Happy New Year Apologies received: Jiankang Yao 2. Administrative matters a. Any SOI updates? None b. Action items Completed. See discussion later today c. Update UA Day Sami: We evaluated all proposals. A few queries were done. We have not heard back from ICANN staff on next steps Abdalmomen: i heard from colleagues that applied that they received their success report. Will be from march to may. Successful applications are announced. It focuses on adoption, not awareness. There are not a big number of EU region applicants. More details regarding countries and other matters, i defer to Seda Bart; we can check with her Anna: Armenia received the confirmation. No other EU region proposals, even though we are APAC country, we are listed as EU. regional conference. Andrew: happy new year. Kenya also received confirmation we get support. First time for our country. We are excited. I will soon share some thoughts with this committee on how we can get the right agenda. Bart: UAC or selection committee? Andrew: i welcome guidance Bart: please use mailing list. If needed, we can put it on the agenda. Rest of the group will appreciate this d. Update Expert Group Sami: We had a meeting yesterday. We included 10 items considered the issues highlighted for discussion by the group. Last issue was discussed yesterday. By mid Feb, the guidelines will be finalised, and presented at ICANN meeting. It will be open for comments. Bart: what are the 10 work items? There might be a link with the joint session. This might be a platform for involving the technical audience. Sami: they want us to collect UAC perspective. Ok if i make a summary by monday/tuesday? That might be an update from UAC to the Expert group, and other way around First 5 items are technical ones. (e.g. system admin platforms) the other ones are more engagement and capacity building related. Engagement with Tech Day and Tech WG will be useful. Bart: regarding presenters, please start thinking about it. One or 3 presentations, followed by a discussion. Where do we take all those new developments Sami: yes, discussing with others as well. Bart: we have a more detailed discussion under number 3 Abdalmomen: the 10th one is most important i think. It is related to the work done by the community. GAC, ALAC, ccNSO …. Important to consider these updates. Have an explanation about the scope of the work Sami: we can invite the co-chairs. Edmun Chung, Sarmad Bart: Eberhard provides the platform. Think about the audience, and bringing the threads together. Inform the broader community about the ongoing work, and see where you may need assistance Abdalmonem: GAC UA IDN WG has a session as well. Think on day 1. Invite for UAC to join the session as a panellist. Bart: saturday? Abdalmomen: yes Bart: important to avoid overlap. And tech day is always open to all. Maria: could UAC spread the word about the events? Bart: ccnso members mailing list. You can use it to alert people. Maria: we can prep announcement and share ourselves? Bart: yes. If needed we can publish something on the ccNSO website. Regina: Seda and theme are now reaching out to successful candidates. Questions to be clarified, regarding the adoption plan. Once published, we can pick it up, and highlight the ccTLD initiatives. But the process is not yet over. Bart: yes. Once list is public, closer to UA day 3. Joint session ICANN85: suggestions for format and presenters Bart: i circulated an email yesterday. Tech Day is a platform with successful discussions in Dublin on abuse. In Dublin it was about tools on abuse. Eberhard hoped for more discussions. As Maria already mentioned, keep the audience in mind. This is about technical and operational developments. New perspectives, what needs to happen? Link with Expert Group. From the discussions with Eberhard, he would like to invite the local host. NIXI might be an interesting part of the speakers panel. But I do not know what they do. Maybe discuss for 20 min. Abdalmomen: sessions on saturday, and Monday. Bart: saturday is a UAC working session, focus on the workplan. Bart: regarding the format * Presentation from NIXI * Presentation on latest developments UA readiness from a technical perspective (for Expert Group?) * Discussion between UAC and Expert Group Maria: this is not the project of NIXI. Xgen plus launched the project with local gvt in Rajastan. https://xgenplus.com/ [xgenplus.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/xgenplus.com/__;!!PtGJab4!5Jl7Ly3_MuWDE0…> They provided citizens with email addresses to work with the gvt services. It would be interesting to have an update on this project. NIXI could get this info from their partners and provide? Would be interesting. This project is well known. I added info in chat. Interesting for the session? A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 9873 Title: Additional Email Address Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Author: D. Belyavsky, J. Gould, S. Hollenbeck Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: October 2025 Mailbox: beldmit(a)gmail.com<mailto:beldmit@gmail.com>, jgould(a)verisign.com<mailto:jgould@verisign.com>, shollenbeck(a)verisign.com<mailto:shollenbeck@verisign.com> Pages: 22 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai-27.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873 [rfc-editor.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873__;!!PtGJ…> DOI: 10.17487/RFC9873 The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) does not inherently support internationalized email addresses because the specifications for these addresses did not exist when EPP was developed. This document describes a command-response extension that adds support for associating an additional email address with an EPP contact object. That additional email address can be either an internationalized email address or an ASCII-only address. Maria: Arnt Guldbrandsen makes project with open source community on UA. we could ask him to give a general overview of the current situation for ccTLDS. Bart: Could you drop an email to the list? probably we can invite one of the authors of this RFC to speak about it Action item #1 Maria to share her proposal in response to yesterday’s e-mail from Joke Maria: We could share our experiences. We launched the support for EAI addresses for all our systems some years ago. If useful, we can share our experiences. Vadim: i could share our experiences. But what do we want to say? Level of technical details? Just an overview of the different solutions in our environment? Or do we want to make a deep dive in the details. Model? Library? Infrastructure element? What level of abstraction do we want to use? Bart: good point. Any comments? Abdalmomen: different models for ccTLDs to be UA ready. Have a presentation on this. Some overlap between the sessions on saturday, and the session for GAC. Bart: separate discussion, the saturday Qing Cai: i agree with Maria. I want to see the discussions. UA development of system. Arnt is an expert. We can let him talk about the EAI. Maria: Who can make presentation on how to make UA ready registry? Regina: and UA ready registrars Abdalmomen: Arnt is icann staff. He is an expert. Arnt to speak, and someone else. Qing Cai: open source. With microsoft and other tech companies. Maybe he can make deeper recommendations for us. Vadim: i do not understand what we do about my question? I have additional thoughts. What we can provide from our side: we can give high level points of usage infrastructure and UA ready elements. If we need to explore this in depth, we would need to invite our partners that made some elements for us. If we decide NIXI - because they are the host - is the headliner of our session, we should ask them what they will speak about. We can pick up on this, and proceed along the same level of details. Bart: we can reach out to Arnt. he is icann staff. Bart, coming back to the Format: * 2 or 3 presentations * Discussion 5 min. Introduction by session chair 15 min. Presentation 1 15 min. Presentation 2 20 min. Roundtable: Arnt, members Expert Group, members UAC (Vadim?) 5 min. Wrap up by session chair Abdalmomen: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ua-roadmap-registry-registrar-s… Michael Bauland usually attends ccNSO sessions. Would be good to have him Maria: i am in favour of more presentations. The ccTLD community is not that much involved yet. It would be good to show practical examples of people who do something. The roundtable needs to be very focused. What exactly do we want to discuss? We should choose speakers. Bart: issues you encounter, and where you need help. Tech Day is looking for the discussions Abdalmomen: author for the doc I shared. Michael Bauland. We could ask him to share info about the doc. Bart: we have only 60 min. Be careful regarding death by powerpoint. If Arnt could provide an high-level overview, that would be interesting for the audience Vadim: maybe Arnt, or someone else, can give some other view of what has been done regarding ICANN systems of UA. A lot of work happened there. Experience of the work? How can it help ccTLDs to make them UA ready? That might be useful, for the audience, form a technical point of view. Bart: what Abdalmonem said can be embedded in such a presentation. This is about triggering interest. Maria: 4 speakers for 7-8 min each? Bart: that just allows for a soundbite. Suggest to give 10 to 15 min. Maria: if we have 3 speakers max, we should find ICANN staff to present the UA Roadmap. Also someone should give a general overview of what happens in Big Tech, plus open source community. In that case, we do not have time to go into deep tech details. Vadim: My experience that it's common practice it Tech day presentation shorter than 10 minutes). During DS automation and Multisigner sessions Abdalmomen: 2 or 3 presenters. I support that Bart: we need to finalise this asap. Start to invite people by end January. To make it successful, you need to prep properly. Make sure people are aware about the expectations. Finalise this in 2 weeks. 4. Workplan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRrEQOw0S--zN8tRT8kzNB_/edit [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRr…> We defer to the next meeting 5. Next meetings: 28 January | 13:00 UTC 11 February | 08:00 UTC 25 February | 13:00 UTC ICANN85 – 7-12 March 6. AOB 7. Adjourn Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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Re: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4)
by Joke Braeken Jan. 15, 2026

Jan. 15, 2026

Hello All, I am re-sending/forwarding the email below (The UAC mailing list address was not correct) Best, Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> From: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org> Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 13:46 To: ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee-bounces(a)icann.org> Cc: "el(a)lisse.na" <el(a)lisse.na> Subject: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4) Dear all, As you will recall from last meetings before the break, the UAC needs to agree on proposal on the format and presenters for the roundtable during Tech Day in Mumbai. To date the following was discussed: * Presentation from Nixi or other organization involved in technical aspects of UA in India (presenter to be identified) * Presentation on latest technical developments re UA readiness. Proposal for discussion * Assuming UA is relevant for TLD operators, presentation and discussion on current state of play and what needs to happen to make a registry UA ready from a technical operational perspective. Invite members of ICANN UA technical expert group, and one or two registry operators (cccTLD and gTLD) Suggest this is main topic for discussion tomorrow on the UA call Kind regards, Bart

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Call for Presentations Hybrid TechDay ICANN 85 Mumbai
by Dr Eberhard W Lisse Jan. 15, 2026

Jan. 15, 2026

vTechDay at ICANN 85 (Mumbai) The ICANN Tech Working Group is again planning a technical workshop at the ICANN 85 meeting (Monbay) As the meeting will be hybrid so will be vTechDay which is currently penciled in for Monday, 2025-10-27 for blocks: Block 2 10:30 - 12:00 (90 Min) Block 3 13:15 - 14:30 (75 min) Block 4 15:00 - 16:00 (60 min) Block 5 16:30 - 17:30 (60 min) All times are local (Mumbai) time. We shall try to accommodate the time zone of virtual presenters in setting the agenda. The TechDay workshop has been a part of ICANN meetings since 2006 and has provided a forum for both experienced and new people to meet, present and discuss technical topics related to registry and DNS work and security. We are specially interested in: 1. UA/IDN In this respect we are anticipating a round table organized by the ccNSO-UA Committee. Please engage with them via email at ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org, keeping us in copy at ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org. 2. DNS Abuse Prevention and Mitigation Tools 3. Best (security) management practices, lines of defense, to protect Registries from bad actors, attacks or malware, or even reports of failures 4. Open Source Tools that have been found helpful a) We would in particular like to hear about git based DNS zone management, especially simple setups usable as example for other (smaller) (cc|g)TLDs. b) We would also like to hear about further RDAP client implementations for the command line, devices and libraries. If there are enough proposals we might have round tables. 5. In addition, we welcome suggestions for additional topics If you are interested in presenting on any other topic, please email us at ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org or reply to this email. We hope that you can join us and request that you disseminate this Request to other lists where it might of interest. greetings, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist el(a)lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply

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ccNSO UA Committee recording request of January 14
by Gerencia Comercial Nic.ec Jan. 14, 2026

Jan. 14, 2026

Dear Jennifer, This is Eduardo Cadena from Nic.ec Ecuador. Could you please provide me with the recording of tomorrow's ccNSO UA Committee meeting

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