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Meeting UAC 13.00 UTC
by Bart Boswinkel Nov. 17, 2025

Nov. 17, 2025

Dear all, This is invite for next UAC call, Kind regards, Bart

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Summary and action items
by Bart Boswinkel Nov. 12, 2025

Nov. 12, 2025

Dear all, Included is a draft summary and a comprehensive list of suggestions flowing from the outcomes of the Dublin session world café session, we briefly discussed. Please review, and if you have any comments, please reply to this email, Kind regards, Bart

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NOTES | UAC | 12 November 2025 (8 UTC)
by Joke Braeken Nov. 12, 2025

Nov. 12, 2025

NOTES | UAC | 12 November 2025 (8 UTC) Action items 1. Staff will post the 3 outcome documents from ICANN84 joint session between UAC and GAC UA-IDN WG on the UAC wiki 2. Staff will share the additional document on the UAC mailing list, and seek comments from the UAC. Once finalised, the doc can be published and distributed more broadly 3. Staff to reach out to Tech WG leadership team about the agreement to organise a joint session between Tech WG and UAC at ICANN85, on the topic of UA. 4. Staff to schedule next meetings until ICANN85 5. Staff to send reminder about UA Day proposal submissions to ccTLD community 6. Seda to provide update on UA Day proposals vetting process at the next UAC meeting in 2 weeks time 1. Welcome 2. Admin matters a. SOI updates. None b. UA Day Announcement https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/updated-icann-issues-call-fo… This announcement is an update to an announcement issued on 9 October 2025, extending the proposal submission date from 9 November 2025 to 24 November 2025. c. UA Expert Group Based on discussions yesterday, support system is being established. Way forward and expectations will become clearer Abdalmomen: how to make the registry UA-ready. UASG tech group made a doc in the past. Front-end, back-end, mail applications and other applications Sami: registrar tech capabilities. Bahrain is smaller in size. We need ICANN support. All bigger ones have IDNs and UA acceptability. We encourage icann to develop things to have ready for implementation Abdalmomen: we need to prepare for new gTLD round. 3. Review UAC session in Dublin Bart: tech day at ICANN84, session by DASC and Tech WG. Focus on tools detecting DNS Abuse. Following discussion with Eberhard Lisse, the suggestion was to have a joint effort at ICANN85 between Tech WG and UAC on UA. Building on your discussion on technical, operational topics on UA. Nixi experience? Others that did work on technical adoption. Basic idea is to start having a discussion after this call. Eberhard to be involved after this. Presenters, followed by a light panel discussion at the end. Abdalmomen: in 2013 IDN ccTLD Egypt created a hackathon to be UA ready. University project for computer engineers. UA for the health care environment. Bart: do you like the idea of organising the session? Abdalmomen: yes. Regina: yes. Bart: next step is to involve Tech WG, and to kick off session planning. Case studies could be an option. Think about the audience: doing an update on what happened in the past might not be useful. Keep it interesting, it is a great opportunity. Also for the UA Expert Group Maria: I support the idea of the session. useful materials for the session: * ICANN UA Roadmap for registries and registrars - https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ua-roadmap-registry-registrar-s… * APTLD Papers Series No.6-White Paper-The Role of ccTLDs in Achieving UA<https://aptld.org/wp-content/uploads/APTLD-Papers-Series-No.6-White-Paper-T…> We need success stories of those registries or RSP who have already implemented UA We need success stories of those registries or RSPs who have already implemented UA Systems with different modules. We need to go deeper. The audience is a tech audience. Maybe we could have group discussions on various models. Similar to a joint session with GAC. Decisions on how to make certain models. Bart: we will involve Tech WG and Eberhard. I will follow up via email. It would be great if the host country could be involved. That was his request, to involve NIXI. Maria: Like Sami mentioned, we have different business models of registries. We could also consider approaches this way. Bart: Let’s follow up at the next meeting. This deserves further discussion. Abdalmomen lists the UA sessions at ICANN84. He speaks to the joint UA session with GAC IDN WG. Bart: those who attended, what are your thoughts? How many GAC members attended? Abdalmomen himself, maybe the GAC Vice Chair Marco Bart: why did they not attend? Abdalmomen: capacity building session for broader audience would have been better. The GAC WG is not active. Bart: GAC WG is in process of being reestablished? Abdalmomen: yes Seda: There were up to 3-4 GAC people Abdalmomen: I asked for a WG meeting at ICANN85. Staff said it was a good idea. Challenge to start at the early beginning. Bart: other feedback regarding the session? Seda: very efficient. Important event. GAC and ccNSO members to interact and brainstorm. Time was not enough. Maybe in the long-term, we could do sth similar? Despite low number of GAC reps, it was a good session. Positive vibe. Maybe next time the joint session to be hosted by the GAC people, to increase the number of GAC representatives? Sami: useful session. All keen to explore further, but time was limited. Mix about the GAC UA-IDN WG reestablishing. At each ccTLD level, people with GAC involvement (myself, Abdalmomen, Yuri, Thuy) Bart: hard with the 2 groups. UAC is really in working mode, the other group moves at a different pace. Maybe to have this session was too early? We may need to support Abdalmomen in the process. Clearly a GAC thing, not a ccNSO thing Jiankang: discussion. Some suggestions were good. Leading to actions. In GAC. maybe we can propose some suggested actions to GAC? [9k=] Bart: i prepared a doc with some proposed action items Maria: GAC people could be better motivated by reps from international organisations. They like to listen to them. Might be a good idea to invite unesco, to show their great interest in the topic. Or maybe ITU, or Sarmad/Seda can show the international resolutions that support the requirements for multilingual domain names. That is the ordinary approach for GAC. they might not be aware that this is an international trend. Sami: good idea. Bart: Good idea indeed. But, for the leadership to in GAC WG to think about how to involve GAC members. Not a task for the ccNSO Abdalmomen: have a UA session in the GAC room at ICANN85. Sarmad finalised a doc. GAC WG sent input. Late, but taken into account. 4. What is next? Bart: we took the notes and the flipcharts, and used a tool to distill the emerging themes * Technical Adoption group * Policy leverage * Capacity Building Regina: Distill themes from this, for discussion at icann85 Bart: does it reflect the discussions? Regina: FYI, we are submitting a proposal with eco for a tech masterclass organised by European Internet Forum in the European parliament on UA and IDN. One of the "selling points" is the connection to the UN agenda WSIS, SDG, UN decade on indigenous languages. All this is relevant for GAC and policy makers in general Sami: this is very much what GAC is always discussing about WSIS and SDG. So inclusivity will be very important player in encouraging the GAC members QingCai: I missed the tech day discussions on UA. the materials are helpful in our UA process. Can ICANN separate the technical materials? The small steps are a good idea. That might help us to use the materials in the international companies. UASG had some materials in the past. Hard to read the whole materials. Too long, too detailed. Take small steps first. That might help. Maria: agree with Qing Cai. materials are too elaborate. These outcomes from the session, the doc prepared by staff, are good. Shall we share them as official output of the session with the GAC WG? We could share them even broader, with GAC members? Not sure about the procedures. Bart: first make sure the docs are fully supported by those that joined the discussions Sami: language is too complicated. Make an executive summary, and send it to GAC leadership, to show the fruitfulness of the discussion. Bart: shows additional doc. Not previously shared with the group. Will be sent later. Based on the 3 docs, it includes the action items you asked for. Also includes monitoring progress. Bart: 2 suggestions * Update the UAC workplan * Share the outcomes with other groups Abdalmomen: I could share the 3 docs with the next meeting of the GAC UA-IDN WG. 5. Next meetings 26 November | 13:00 UTC 10 December | 08:00 UTC 14 January | 08:00 UTC 28 January | 13:00 UTC 11 February | 08:00 UTC 25 February | 13:00 UTC ICANN85 6. AOB Seda: Reminder about the UA proposal deadline. No ccTLD proposals yet, apart from the ones we are already working on. Regina: question regarding funding. Useless to submit a draft, if no funding is requested? Seda: please submit nonetheless. Promotion via icann. Regina: how will the evaluations happen? Do you need help from UAC? Seda: for discussion. Any suggestions? Regina: just wondering about the plans. If needed, I could make myself available Bart: can you give update at the next meeting about the vetting process? Qing Cai: will there be a global UA Day? Seda: no. executives are busy with new gTLD round. No need for global event. But regional events with more focus. 7. Closure Bye all Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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Draft Agenda
by Bart Boswinkel Nov. 11, 2025

Nov. 11, 2025

Dear all, Please find included draft agenda for tomorrow’s (Wednesday 12 November| 8 am UTC). I have also included the overviews per station of the UAC session in Dublin. Kind regards, Bart Draft Agenda 1. Welcome 1. Admin matters * SoI updates * UA Day announcement * Update UA Expert Group * Joint session Tech WG – UAC ICANN85: presentation and discussion recent (technical) developments in area of UA 1. Review of UAC session in Dublin 1. What’s next? How to us output? 1. Next meetings 1. AOB 1. Adjourn

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (45) | 12 November 2025 at 8:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar Nov. 10, 2025

Nov. 10, 2025

Dear all, Please find included the outcomes from the UAC world café session in Dublin. For discussion on Wednesday Kind regards, Bart

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Updated: ICANN Issues Call for UA Day 2026 Proposals
by Joke Braeken Nov. 10, 2025

Nov. 10, 2025

Dear All, https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/updated-icann-issues-call-fo… This announcement is an update to an announcement issued on 9 October 2025<https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-issues-call-for-ua-day…>, extending the proposal submission date from 9 November 2025 to 24 November 2025. ICANN launched a call for proposals for UA Day 2026 events to be held between 25 March and 30 May 2026. Building on its partnership with ICANN to advance Internet inclusivity, multilingualism, and equitable access online, UNESCO is supporting this fourth annual series of events that focus on the adoption of Universal Acceptance (UA). The deadline to submit<https://www.icann.org/ua-day-call-for-proposals-2026-en> a proposal has been extended from 9 November 2025 to 24 November 2025. Best regards, Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (45) | 12 November 2025 at 8:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar Nov. 7, 2025

Nov. 7, 2025

***REMINDER*** Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (45) is scheduled for 12 November 2025 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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Agenda and background material UAC meeting 7 October
by Bart Boswinkel Oct. 8, 2025

Oct. 8, 2025

Dear all, Please find included the draft agenda for the upcoming meeting. Staff suggests to start the meeting with the preparation of the joint meeting in Dublin Bart Draft Agenda: 1. Welcome 1. Admin matters * SoI update 1. Agenda UAC – GAC UA WG (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18rEj6FNZjmEGCMfponbBxzJEA4niq4_mTxa… [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/presentation/d/18rEj6FNZ…> 1. Input UAC on ICANN/UNESCO note (draft included): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h-FjzCgV9CI5iZSeYdFfzrBXUQZIstYe6xltSTZ… From email with ICANN staff: ICANN and UNESCO collaborate on UA policy brief, which is intended for the public sector. It will be shared through UNESCO with their member states to promote UA awareness and adoption among countries. ICANN IDN team intends to use the GAC channels to promote it as well. At suggestion of Abdalmonem UAC to provide input to brief. 1. Drivers & Barriers Action items and prioritization – outcome discussion and next steps (included as pdf & word, link to Google doc to be shared and overview of results of 27 August session whiteboard (pdf), table and doc Second reading outcome of August work session and prioritization 1. Next meeting: * 14 October – small team * 25 October -joint UAC/GAC IDN WG meeting 1. AOB 1. Closure

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NOTES | UAC | 8 October 2025 at 13:00 UTC
by Joke Braeken Oct. 8, 2025

Oct. 8, 2025

NOTES | UAC | 8 October 2025 at 13:00 UTC 1. Welcome Welcome by Abdalmomen Apologies by Regina 2. Admin matters a. SoI update Abdalmomen: any updates? none 3. Agenda UAC – GAC UA WG https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18rEj6FNZjmEGCMfponbBxzJEA4niq4_mTxa… Bart: agenda slightly revised, following last week’s planning meeting. A bit more time for the introductions. Not all have the same level of experience. Abdalmomen: Jiankang is also a member of the UA-IDN WG. he also is here from a ccNSO perspective. Would be good to have his views Jiankang: I am not sure i am a member of the GAC WG? Bart: any questions on the general overview? none Qing Cai agrees Group uses green marks in zoom and approved the agenda Bart: please feel free to share with GAC WG members. Keep GAC staff in copy Abdalmomen: the GAC WG meets tomorrow. This is one of the agenda items for tomorrow The suggestion was to stick to 2 rounds, due to the time constraints. Seda: any arguments on incentives regarding software, websites? Good to be prepared. Bart: might be a good idea to have a briefing paper, and include them in the briefing paper, if you have any. Unesco people and icann staff are warmly invited to join the conversation. You are the experts, and can flag relevant examples. Seda: will bring them up. Might be good to hear them from the different audiences. Bart: this is not just to inform the GAC members. This is also for ccTLDs. This is a joint conversation, not a briefing or series of presentations. This is a nice opportunity for networking, and inviting for follow-up meetings. It breaks barriers for interaction Bart: let’s try to identify the hosts next week 4. Input UAC on ICANN/UNESCO note (draft included): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h-FjzCgV9CI5iZSeYdFfzrBXUQZIstYe6xltSTZ… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h-FjzCgV9CI5iZSeYdFfzrBXUQZIstYe6xltSTZ…> From email with ICANN staff: ICANN and UNESCO collaborate on UA policy brief, which is intended for the public sector. It will be shared through UNESCO with their member states to promote UA awareness and adoption among countries. ICANN IDN team intends to use the GAC channels to promote it as well. At suggestion of Abdalmonem UAC to provide input to brief. Bart: can UAC still share feedback? Seda: yes. Not sure about the deadline Bart: before Dublin? After? Any indication would be helpful 5. Drivers & Barriers Action items and prioritization – outcome discussion and next steps (included as pdf & word, link to Google doc to be shared and overview of results of 27 August session whiteboard (pdf), table and doc Second reading outcome of August work session and prioritization Bart: see whiteboard we used. The idea was to rank the sticky notes: those are the action items. This is the most rudimentary way of looking at it. Andrew: I love the colour-coding. This is helpful. Bart: do we do prioritisation now? Or wait for the results from the Dublin session? Might make more sense. Do you support? Group agrees with the prioritisation after ICANN84 6. Next meeting: a. 15 October – small team b. 25 October - joint UAC/GAC IDN WG meeting 7. AOB 8. Closure Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (45) | 08 October 2025 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar Oct. 8, 2025

Oct. 8, 2025

Starts now Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (45) is scheduled for 08 October 2025 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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