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=6... 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/1ivoxHF42kYpT4F1uL0Q0g4BLFtjJww5XV5fpQO74...> 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_LqL...> 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?us...> 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@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>