April 2026 - ccNSO-UACommittee

NOTES | AGENDA | UAC | 22 April 2026 at 13:00 UTC
by Joke Braeken April 22, 2026

April 22, 2026

NOTES | AGENDA | UAC | 22 April 2026 at 13:00 UTC 1. Welcome Welcome by Abdalmonem 2. Admin matters a. Update SoI Consult the ccNSO SOI Guideline<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/ccnso-internal-procedure-general-soi-coi-2…> Complete the SOI template<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRpehiCw2ty2PYRiaPG0K3lZSKk9LrLPQ…> Check the ccNSO Statements of Interest<https://community.icann.org/x/doAFEg> b. Submission comments draft Guidelines for Advancing UA Adoption https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/draft-guidelines-for-adv… Seda: public comments are now closed. Evaluation by UA Expert WG. staff report was shared with the group. Aim to complete by ICANN86, and socialise it at that meeting. UA Expert WG meets next week Bart: 37 submissions. Thanks to all drafters to compile a comment in time. Great team work. Thank you. c. Updates UA Day 2026 Seda: kicked off 24 March. Some regional events were held. See also the previous UAC meeting. Vietnam Meeting for the apac region, with different stakeholders from different countries. Went well as well. UA adoption and demonstration events. 18 events completed their milestones. India to start with the showcase. Volunteer event from China, well attended. UA curriculum events. One in El Salvador. Tomorrow is a LACNOC event. Seda listed other events, ccTLDs participating. Materials published in various languages. Vadim: VietNam event. QingCai was there as well. Good discussions: what do IDNs and UA bring to local users? Interesting for me. .vn registrations up to 1 million. Great move. Practical discussions. We exchanged ideas on what to do next. Stronger relations between registries? Qing Cai: good opportunity to speak about common challenges and opportunities. Next time, have one project with different ccTLDs. Same goal. AI to different countries. Merely a suggestion. Who could hold such an event? Might be a good example Vadim: I will join UA Day in Moldova. University lecture. Homoglyph, how to avoid attacks. Will report back next time. Maria: event organised by a member of our regional group, from Moldova. Will speak about it at next opportunity Seda: reference to invite. With Adbdalmomen in draft agenda. Abdalmomen: not aware Seda: https://universalacceptance.day/ 3. Two pager Universal Acceptance (UA) Introductionary doc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivoxHF42kYpT4F1uL0Q0g4BLFtjJww5XV5fpQO7…> a. Finalize draft Team discussed the edits and proposed text on a section-by-section basis. Maria: regarding the picture. We use a gTLD domain name as an example. Mirjana: it is a general definition. It is ok, there are different IDNs Regina: I am fine with the example. Make clear they are TLDs, not domains Qing Cai: picture clarifies the text Maria: add new gTLD between brackets. Further comments made, edits made directly into the document. We will accept the changes in paragraph 1 and 2. We will rediscuss paragraph b. What’s next? Circulation to ccNSO members/ccTLD managers, included in repository? Circulate to others? 4. Update work plan: Update UAC workplan.docx<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRrEQOw0S--zN8tRT8kzNB_/edit?u…> 5. Next meeting 6 May 2026 – 8 am UTC 6. AOB 7. Adjourn Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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Agenda meeting 22 April 2026 | 13.00 UTC
by Bart Boswinkel April 22, 2026

April 22, 2026

Dear all, Please find included the draft agenda for the upcoming meeting: 1. Welcome 1. Admin matters * Update SoI * Submission comments draft Guidelines for Advancing UA Adoption: https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/draft-guidelines-for-adv… * Updates UA Day 2026 1. Two pager ( Universal Acceptance (UA) Introductionary doc [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1ivoxHF42kYpT…>) * Finalize draft * What’s next? Circulation to ccNSO members/ccTLD managers, included in repository? Circulate to others? 1. Update work plan: Update UAC workplan.docx [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRr…> 1. Next meeting: 6 May 2026 – 8 am UTC 1. AOB 1. Adjourn

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference | 22 April 2026 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar April 20, 2026

April 20, 2026

***TIME CHANGED TO 13:00 UTC DUE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS*** Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference is scheduled for 22 April 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: Final draft UAC submission: Please check before 17.00UTC TODAY (13 April)
by Joke Braeken April 13, 2026

April 13, 2026

Dear All, The UAC response to the public comment proceeding has been posted. See https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/draft-guidelines-for-adv… Best regards, Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> From: Bart Boswinkel via ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org> Reply-To: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org> Date: Monday, 13 April 2026 at 15:16 To: "ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org" <ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org> Subject: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Final draft UAC submission: Please check before 17.00UTC TODAY (13 April) Dear all, Please find included the link to the final draft of the UAC submission: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJj4wC7oCSnd3b3oJRSWxqa93dMvoVO2NuMZ_Lq… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1lJj4wC7oCSnd…> . Please check, and DO NOT SUGESST ANY SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES. Please let the list know by 17.00 UTC TODAY 13 April 2026 if support or object to the submission. Staff will submit the submission on behalf of the UAC unless there is strong objection. Thank you, kind regards, Bart

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Final draft UAC submission: Please check before 17.00UTC TODAY (13 April)
by Bart Boswinkel April 13, 2026

April 13, 2026

Dear all, Please find included the link to the final draft of the UAC submission: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJj4wC7oCSnd3b3oJRSWxqa93dMvoVO2NuMZ_Lq… . Please check, and DO NOT SUGESST ANY SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES. Please let the list know by 17.00 UTC TODAY 13 April 2026 if support or object to the submission. Staff will submit the submission on behalf of the UAC unless there is strong objection. Thank you, kind regards, Bart

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Suggestions for the UAC submission public comment
by Bart Boswinkel April 10, 2026

April 10, 2026

Dear all, This is a friendly reminder to add your suggested comments in the Google doc.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJj4wC7oCSnd3b3oJRSWxqa93dMvoVO2NuMZ_Lq… I will consolidate the comments Monday morning UTC, Kind regards, Bart

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NOTES | UAC | 8 April 2026 (08:00 UTC)
by Joke Braeken April 8, 2026

April 8, 2026

NOTES | UAC | 8 April 2026 (08:00 UTC) 1. Welcome Welcome by Abdalmonem 2. Admin matters a. SOI updates Any SOI updates? None b. UA Day 2026 Seda: 4 events took place. Good feedback received. We will post translations of UA Day event materials in 7 UN languages. Will be posted this week. AR, ES, PT, CN, RU and FR See web page for the presentations. https://www.icann.org/ua-day-2026 Peak season: April and May for UA events. Demo training on how to make website and mail servers UA-ready. They share their experiences: what are their challenges? How to overcome them? Customised template by organisers. Maria: Thanks to all who participated in our event. Regina, Anna, Vadim and myself attended in person. Successful regional conference. Organised in the European University of Armenia. About 100 in-person participants and more on line. My colleagues watched this online. Agenda was comprehensive. Good discussions with the audience. Multilingualism. Content, AI, how it interacts with multilingual content. Representatives from the Armenian community shared use cases and experiences. They presented research. Very interesting facts regarding the global/regional/national regulations. Presented by a member of a youth group in our registry. Unfortunately only available in Russian, not as full text. Feel free to check the slides from the regional events. We could even add it to the UAC library, if useful Regarding the engagement and the audience: not all are aware. Representatives of ICANN, ITU, local universities. Questions by ideas presented by ICANN at ITU in Baku last year. We have support from ITU that the idea is good. We can develop the metrics for UA adoption. ITU supports this. Yesterday we had day one of our Russian IGF. heritage of different nations, keeping the cultural code. Discussions by ITU, governmental agencies, YANDEX, our ccTLD etc. We raised the question with ITU, and we got again the support from ITU to work on these metrics. We will prepare for the UA Day in Moldova. End April. The agenda is almost finished. Speakers from ICANN with some training. Vadim was invited to take part in a UA Day event in VietNam. He will present the experience of the support of UA and IDNs in AI. We will share our experience in this field. This year, the topic of multilingualism is on the top of all discussions and local industry events. I know of other events discussing this, how to better support local languages on the internet. I can share more info later Anna: Thanks to all our guests, from Serbia and the USA, and others. Theresa and Gabi from ICANN joined. Regina (.eu), and Diana (.rs) attended as well. Good update from Masha regarding our conference. I much appreciated that the place of our conference was the university. UA awareness and adoption. Everyone forgets about academia. Students asked a lot of questions. Vadim: I was invited to Viet Nam. Strengthening UA acceptance implementation in the AP region. I will present the technical side of UA implementation. Negotiations on the presentation topics for the future. I will share my experience once the event is over. Next call Maria: in Armenia we presented the video prepared by icann. We decided not to go in depth on technical aspects, but nonetheless discussed them in a more general manner. Especially for students. Regina: thanks to the organisers and Armenia for hosting it. It was an inspiring experience. Shift to the university added value. Students took an active part, asked questions. Congratulations to the university for such active students. Start of a wider cooperation for the Armenian registry. Good development. Bart: Seda asked us for a presentation for 10 min in Seville. We will try to find a slot. 3. two pager introducing The group first discussed item 4 on the agenda, then item 3. Edits made directly into the document Discussion regarding the removal of the arrows. Group agreed to replace them with links Regina: suggestion to add a screenshot from the video Bart: please send the screenshot to the mailing list Vadim: May be we can take it from here in vertical style: https://uasg.tech/download/uasg-005-ua-quick-guide-en/?wpdmdl=3608&refresh=… Maria: standard. URL identification. Vadim: internationalised URL Bart: I will look it up. Seda: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr58/ Vadim: standard 58. This is about internationalised symbols. Not about all links. They can have long links. It is not about that. This is not about all part of UA. Maria: can we add non-ASCII URL identification? Vadim: works for me a. Discussion/ finalizing two pager introducing UA Universal Acceptance (UA) Introductionary doc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivoxHF42kYpT4F1uL0Q0g4BLFtjJww5XV5fpQO7…> b. What to do with doc? Circulation to ccNSO members/ccTLD managers, included in repository? Circulate to others? 4. Draft comments on draft Guidelines for Advancing UA Adoption Comments UAC on Draft Guidelines UA Adoption<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJj4wC7oCSnd3b3oJRSWxqa93dMvoVO2NuMZ_Lq…> Bart: UAC submission. Not by Council. Feel free to submit individual submissions 3 questions in the request for public comments. Deadline for submission: Monday next week. Abdalmonem: should our input be reviewed by the council? Bart: no. UAC was mandated by Council in Mumbai. See the proposed introductory text Sami, Maria, Regina, Abdalmonem agreed to join the drafting team. Please add your comments in the google doc. The deadline is Friday, so we can clean it up and submit it on Monday. Abdalmomen: high-level, or detailed? Bart: up to the group. Too detailed is probably not expected. Maria: I added what Abdalmomen mentioned. Do we meet with the small group? Bart: work offline via the google doc. Being best is the worst enemy of being good. Sami: We do not need too much detail. More generic is fine. Needs to be more a ccTLD as a whole representation. DEADLINE for submissions in the google doc: Friday, 13 UTC Drafting team to meet on Monday morning, 9 UTC for 30 min. Staff to clean up and submit the UAC comment on Monday 5. Workplan Update UAC workplan.docx<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRrEQOw0S--zN8tRT8kzNB_/edit?u…> a. Final reading b. Next work item 6. Next meetings 22 April 2026: 13.00 UTC 6 May 2026: 08:00 am UTC Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference | 08 April 2026 at 8:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar April 8, 2026

April 8, 2026

***REMINDER*** Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference is scheduled for 08 April 2026 at 8:00 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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Draft agenda
by Bart Boswinkel April 7, 2026

April 7, 2026

Dear all, Please find included the agenda for today 1. Welcome 2. Admin matters * SoI update * UA - Day 2026 Update 1. Two pager introducing * Discussion/ finalizing two pager introducing UA :https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivoxHF42kYpT4F1uL0Q0g4BLFtjJww5XV5fpQO74LLw/edit?tab=t.0 [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1ivoxHF42kYpT…> * What to do with doc? Circulation to ccNSO members/ccTLD managers, include in repository? Circulate to others? 1. Draft comments on draft Guidelines for Advancing UA Adoption: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJj4wC7oCSnd3b3oJRSWxqa93dMvoVO2NuMZ_Lq… 1. Workplan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRrEQOw0S--zN8tRT8kzNB_/edit [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1o3tPVX9DeIRr…> * Final reading * Next work item 1. Next meetings – * 22 April 2026: 13.00 UTC * 6 May 2026: 8 am UTC 1. AOB 1. Adjourn

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