NOTES | UAC | 14 January 2026 (8 UTC)
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
Maria: this is not the project of NIXI. Xgen plus launched the project with local gvt in Rajastan.
https://xgenplus.com/
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@gmail.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
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:
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-systems-11jan23-en.pdf
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
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