NOTES | UAC | Wed, 21 May 2025 (13:00 UTC)
ACTION ITEMS
Action item #1
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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
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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
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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
Complete the SOI template
Check the ccNSO Statements of Interest
b.
Call
for one ccNSO appointee to the ICANN UA Expert Group
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: 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
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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.
Regina: we will have a booth at the IGF and a lightning talk about the IDN World Report
Action item #2
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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:
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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.
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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
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the secretariat is requested to send out calendar invites for the meetings post ICANN83