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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (41) | 13 August 2025 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar July 3, 2025

July 3, 2025

Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (41) is scheduled for 13 August 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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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (40) | 30 July 2025 at 07:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar July 3, 2025

July 3, 2025

Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (40) is scheduled for 30 July 2025 at 07:00 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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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (39) | 16 July 2025 at 13:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar July 3, 2025

July 3, 2025

Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (39) is scheduled for 16 July 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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NOTES | UAC | 2 July 2025 (6 UTC)
by Joke Braeken July 2, 2025

July 2, 2025

NOTES | UAC | 2 July 2025 (6 UTC) 1. Welcome Welcome by Abdalmonem 2. Admin Matters a. SoI update Abdalmonem: any updates? Please let staff know b. ccNSO appointee ICANN’s UA Expert Group Abdalmomen refers to changes. UASG ended, work continues in the Expert Group. Change of focus makes sense. He is appointed on behalf of the GAC Bart: Sami was selected. Strong slate of candidates. It was very close. Sarmad has been informed about the appointment. Have they met already? Sami: I believe first meeting will be mid July Bart: Would it make sense to include a monthly update from the Expert group? Not sure about frequency Abdalmomen: would be good. Monthly, yes. Knowledge transfer. Seda: We are waiting for the nominations. The meeting will likely be weekly. Specific tasks, to prepare guidance. Nominees can share knowledge in their respective groups. Bart: ok. Monthly update Abdalmomen: GAC has one main appointee, and one backup. What about the ccNSO Seda: one nominee, and no alternates Bart: GAC in a special position. Abdalmonem: Are changes to the UAC charter needed? Now that UASG has ended? Bart: suggestion is to continue as is. We will check. UAC may interact with any group of relevance, which includes UA Expert Group. Abdalmomen: Do we need to have additional liaisons? Bart: charter allows this Joke: liaisons are appointed by council Maria: do not forget about us. I am chair of one of the local initiatives. The group will finish its work in February 2026, if I remember well. With the report to CEO. 3. Community consultations: what are next steps? c. Looking back at ICANN83 session Bart: packed session. What was your general sense of the session? Regina: went well. Good testimonials by Sami and Gudrun Masha: I attended remotely. Well organised, comprehensive. Glad to see more participants this time. Long trend: only half of the ccnso membership is interested. No demand. We should look deeply into this. What can we change? Do we want to change anything? We see the same on the ground. Sami: Good session. Can we have a different approach in ICANN84. Have a panel, instead of 1 by 1 presentations. Different approach to deliver. You all have many solutions already. Can we propose them for a trial basis? The members could benefit from these solutions as a practical trial solution. Bart: a mix is good, to get more engagement by the community. Abdalmonem: I support this. Would be more engaging for the audience. Qing Cai: I attended the 10-year celebration of UASG online. That was a success. Comment by Ambassador from China. Recognising IDN domain names. Access by search engines. The global UA Day in Hanoi. I attended in person. There was lots of coding to support UA. difficult to push the global internet companies. I missed the last UASG meeting. In China, we want to hear the news from Sami and Abdalmonem. Maria: We usually get good feedback from sessions, when we show the user problems and show examples. We should take a user problem, and talk about how to solve these problems, by developers and software manufacturers. Abdalmomen: me and Sami from the Arab region, Masha from AP, Andrew from AF. different regions, different scripts. Show the challenges. Identify gaps and issues to increase awareness. Maria: make one practical presentation per session, with tech background As logical continuation of UAC work Walter Wu is a good presenter Sami: I would like to share a solution like EAI setup deployment etc at lest at the ccTLD office supported by UAC. Maria: there are several docs that describe a ccTLD software infrastructure with modules and how each module should support UA Sami: But lets make it part of deployment support and practical success by doing it through UAC for universities, ccTLDs etc. Bart: you already identified some work items. Need to be captured and discussed going forward. d. Going forward: combining the outcomes of the consultations See mentimeter results ICANN82 and ICANN83 shared as PDF’s together with the agenda for today’s meeting Bart: ICANN83 and ICANN82 results differ. Important role of digital inclusion in light of WSIS+20. Recurring theme. Lack of demand as the main barriers. A bit of chicken and egg problem. Regina: selling point towards WSIS. if IGF gets a permanent mandate, it will get back to ccTLDs, from the policy makers. Let’s be ahead of the curve. In combination with what Masha mentioned, to have from time to time sth practical. We released the IDN World Report. Also had surveys with ccTLDs. Contains some interesting numbers. Help ccNSO members to get ready. Bart: sounds like an excellent theme for one or 2 sessions going forward Maria: regarding other potential steps. Interesting for ccTLDs would be, who from the companies that provide registry services, are UA ready? Nobody knows. We could create a catalogue about such companies. If a registry uses a service provider from elsewhere, it would be good to know who prepared the solutions in a correct way. Bart: maybe UAC is not the best vehicle. Might be better suited for the Expert Group. Maria: we could invite a speaker and explain Difficult to influence governments. Very clear motivation topic, for others, how to develop language things in each country. Problem to be considered globally, but to be considered in each country. GAC might be right place to discuss. But to influence gvt, it will not be the only one way. Many problems in political space. Another option is to communicate with IT giants. Once one giant implements it, everyone will know. Has a big impact. And inspires smaller companies. Small manufacturers do not have enough experience and resources. We should explain them that to implement UA, it is an easy task. Bart: wouldn’t that something for the Expert Group to consider/do? Maria: i hope so. Qing cai: regarding EAI. share a chat who has an email address. Test with each other. Deal with the issues. Big internet companies. Push the internet companies to make action Maria: UASG has the list of testing emails in different scripts. but except this there are availabilities to make tests with other ccTLDs who provide EAI Tesbed Abdalmomen: one person saying always that he does not like sessions Bart: happens. For all members meeting sessions e. What’s next? Bart: will prepare a strawman. Observations from the consultations. Bart: regina made some suggestions. We do have the ICANN84 meeting. We have a possible meeting, a working session between UAC and the GAC UA Group. Potentially, have a session during the members meeting as well, like we had in Prague 4. Next meetings In 2 weeks, Regina to speak about the IDN World Report and IGF discussions, at the next UAC meeting Maria: several years ago, our ccTLD responded to IDN survey by CENTR. We suggested technical questions to be included in the survey. Whois, email, database aspects related to cctld infrastructure. Also an aspect of the IDN World Report. 16 July 2025 | 13:00 UTC Meeting every 2 weeks, until ICANN84 Rotation between 07:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC 5. AOB none 6. Adjourn Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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Agenda and outcome of the consultations (Seattle and Prague)
by Bart Boswinkel July 2, 2025

July 2, 2025

Dear all Hope all is well. Please find included the draft agenda for the upcoming call ( Wednesday 2 July 7am UTC). Also included the results of both the Seattle and Prague consultations. Kind regards, Bart 1. Welcome 2. Admin Matters * SoI update * ccNSO appointee ICANN’s UA Expert Group 3. Community consultations: what are next steps? * Looking back at ICANN83 session * Going forward: combining the outcomes of the consultations * What’s next? 4. Next meetings 5. AOB 6. Adjourn

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Re: ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (38) | 02 July 2025 at 07:00 UTC
by ccNSO Calendar July 2, 2025

July 2, 2025

This meeting starts at the top of the hour Best, Joke From: claudia.ruiz(a)icann.org When: 09:00 - 10:00 2 July 2025 Subject: [ccNSO-UACommittee] ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (38) | 02 July 2025 at 07:00 UTC Location: https://icann.zoom.us/j/91427477253?pwd=VFh2ck9NczlLMXdRTjhYUlRHWHFOdz09 Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (38) is scheduled for 02 July 2025 at 07:00 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 [icann.zoom.us]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/icann.zoom.us/j/91427477253?pwd=VFh2ck9N…> Meeting ID: 914 2747 7253 Passcode: ccNSO-UAC1 Dial in Passcode: 5321318135 Find your local number: https://icann.zoom.us/u/adKGO9HP2S [icann.zoom.us]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/icann.zoom.us/u/adKGO9HP2S__;!!PtGJab4!7…> Thank you!

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ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (38) | 02 July 2025 at 07:00 UTC
by Claudia Ruiz June 27, 2025

June 27, 2025

Dear all, The next ccNSO UA Committee teleconference (38) is scheduled for 02 July 2025 at 07:00 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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ICANN83 mentimeter results | barriers for UA
by Joke Braeken June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025

Hello all, Here is a download of the slides, and the results from the mentimeter polls, from the ICANN83 session on barriers for UA. Best regards, Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> Read more about the ccNSO Program at ICANN83: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYDTCw

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UA at Global IGF
by Joke Braeken May 21, 2025

May 21, 2025

Hello all, Following a suggestion by Maria, we created a google doc, where UAC members can highlight sessions of relevance to UA-related matters at the global IGF (page 2), and mark their attendance (page 1). https://docs.google.com/document/d/19XkbjqSIufq2-L4emyRyCgNiaGS0-VbD4iv639w… All have editing rights, so feel free to update the tables as you deem necessary. Best regards, Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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NOTES & ACTION ITEMS | UAC | Wed, 21 May 2025 (13:00 UTC)
by Joke Braeken May 21, 2025

May 21, 2025

NOTES | UAC | Wed, 21 May 2025 (13:00 UTC) ACTION ITEMS Action item #1 · UAC members are requested to review the draft invite to join the session in Prague. Deadline for comments: Friday, 23 May 23:59 UTC Action item #2 · Following a suggestion by Maria, the secretariat is requested to create a google doc, where UAC members can highlight sessions of relevance to UA-related matters at the global IGF. Action item #3 · the secretariat is requested to send out calendar invites for the meetings post ICANN83 NOTES 1. Welcome Welcome by Abdalmomen 2. Admin matters a. Statements of Interest (SOI): any updates? 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. Call for one ccNSO appointee to the ICANN UA Expert Group<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20may25-en.htm> Following a recent blog post from ICANN CEO Abdalmomen: complete the work started by the UASG Call for volunteers launched by ccNSO Joke: see expertise and requirements in the call for volunteers. Selection by Council. Abdalmomen: I applied to be the GAC appointee. 3. Planning for ICANN83, Prague (Breaking Barriers: how governments and ccTLDs advance UA) a. Invite to join the session<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uENjvosVcF7JD-XOssMav0YjJrnmao2n0GLyzyK…>: deadline for comments Fri, 23 May (COB) Joke: please have a look at the draft Abdalmomen: I would like to share the invite more broadly. Joke: ok. Let’s adjust from “dear ccTLD colleagues” to “dear colleagues”. Once the text has been approved, we will publish the link on the ccNSO website, so you can share with a broader audience Abdalmomen: what about a social media banner? Joke: ccnso does not have the resources to create visuals, but feel free to use the link to the website announcement, and make a screenshot of the agenda slide from the Prague session. Action item #1 · UAC members are requested to review the draft invite to join the session in Prague. Deadline for comments: Friday, 23 May 23:59 UTC 4. Looking back at UA Day 2025 Abdalmomen: I attended UA Day trainings in Somalia, Rwanda and another country. I conducted 4 trainings. The most successful one was the one in Somalia. Excellent planning, participants from various stakeholders. They are a developing country, and need encouragement to go one step further. They are well under way. Sami: report on UA day. See also our presentation at ICANN83. Maria: Yesterday I took part in the North American UA day. Organised by several organizations, including CODI and another coalition. About 20-30 participants and slightly more online. Known speakers. Steve Crocker, George Sadowski, Vint Cerf, Theresa Swinehart. Moderated by Ram Mohan and Christian Dawnson. Discussion on AI and language learning models. How do they help to solve problems? What are the challenges? CODI launched a website. I did not get more info on their activities. Discussions referenced UA and EAI, but it was also a wider discussion on language models. Qing Cai: I was at UA Day in Vietnam. APAC DNS Forum took place as well. On 8 may, there was a global panel on UA. Anil joined among others, also tech engineers from META and other experts. They spoke about the multilingual internet. What has been done in the past 10 years by UASG, and what will the future bring? Adam spoke about the importance of UA. META is paying more attention to the multilingual internet. They do a lot of support for ccTLDs. But they have similar issues, such as the one in China. Code is complicated. They want to help the internet technical companies to support UA together. I also joined sub-sessions. Together with .th we spoke about what we do in terms of UA. using IDN domain names. What are the opportunities? New business case for IDNs. lots of technical discussions around the topic. Also, In China we have IDN emails to the public. Just published on our website. Difficult. We cooperated and overcame many issues. In the gateway there were many issues. We introduced our experience during that meeting, and launched the initiative. We showed this to our registrars. Joke: is the information on your website also available in English? Qing Cai: yes, it is. Maria and Qing Cai exchange EAI e-mail addresses with eachother, and will test. Regina asks Qing Cai to share materials on the UA library, if relevant Sabrina: in a few weeks, there will be the global IGF in Norway. We have an accepted workshop. https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2025-ws-204-closing-digital-divides-… Regina: we will have a booth at the IGF and a lightning talk about the IDN World Report https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2025-lightning-talk-111-universa… Action item #2 · Following a suggestion by Maria, the secretariat is requested to create a google doc, where UAC members can highlight sessions of relevance to UA-related matters at the global IGF. Seda: · ICANN83 prep week session on 27 may. IDN updates and UA updates. We will speak about UA Day curriculum integration and we will promote the UA day events at icann83, including the session on breaking barriers on Tuesday. · During the ICANN83 Main week, we will have a 10 year celebration for UASG on wednesday. 90 min session, followed by a cocktail. 5. AOB none 6. Next meetings: determine schedule post ICANN83 Tue, 27 May at 13 UTC - (dry-run for all involved in ICANN83 session) 9-12 June 2025 (ICANN83) Wednesday, 2 July 2025 - 07:00 UTC (wrap-up ICANN83, and workplan for UAC now that Expert Group is in place) Wednesday, 16 July 2025 - 13:00 UTC Wednesday, 30 July 2025 - 07:00 UTC Wednesday, 13 August 2025 - 13:00 UTC Wednesday, 27 August 2025 - 07:00 UTC Wednesday, 10 September 2025 - 13:00 UTC Wednesday, 24 September 2025 - 07:00 UTC Wednesday, 8 October 2025 - 13:00 UTC ICANN84: 25-30 October 2025 Action item #3 · the secretariat is requested to send out calendar invites for the meetings post ICANN83 Joke Braeken joke.braeken(a)icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>

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