NOTES | UAC | 27 Aug 2025 at 7 UTC 1. Welcome and roll call Welcome by Abdalmomen 2. Admin matters a. SoI updates if any Consult the ccNSO SOI Guideline<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/ccnso-internal-procedure-general-soi-coi-21...> Complete the SOI template<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRpehiCw2ty2PYRiaPG0K3lZSKk9LrLPQe...> Check the ccNSO Statements of Interest<https://community.icann.org/x/doAFEg> b. Action items meeting 30 July · Action item #1: draft letter to be send to Abdalmonem as chair GAC UA working party (completed) · Action item #2: turn report consultation sessions into document to share with community (pending) Abdalmomen: the first session by GAC UA-IDN WG is tomorrow. I will gave them a heads up about the ICANN84 session, pending Regina’s letter c. Update UA Expert group Sami: We had the 2nd meeting yesterday. Discussion on scope and charter. Scope including approaching the big techs and making UA more accessible. There were also voices raised to involved smaller players. Bring examples out of them, and bring that to the big techs. Bottom up approach, vs bottom down approach by icann. That has proven not to be successful. Further steps pending Seda: thank you for the explanation. We shared the charter online in the icann announcements. Members are also public. See the icann blog. Bart: AI has a drastic impact on content. Will change the dynamics on UA. Will that be discussed? Seda: Currently we have 4 focus areas. One is big tech, open source, gvt, academia. We do not want to go beyond this scope, due to limited time. Maybe in future Sami: give them the knowledge base to develop the technology. Create the content, using AI tool. 3. ICANN84 session - GAC UA working group to UAC session to discuss government-ccTLD roles regarding UA readiness (tentatively agreed by GAC leadership) * Invitation letter (see here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1arxxBzrPqWHDE1_UvstlFQp0eNaJoGvyDKmtJipn... Suggestions on improvements, added to google doc. Bart: by when do you need to invite? Abdalmomen: as the GAC UA-IDN WG is tomorrow, it would be good to have the letter today. Group agrees with the intent of the letter, to be shared by Regina Seda: in prep of the ICANN84 meeting, are there lists where we can share with GAC case studies, what ccTLDs have done. Share info as what ccTLDs have done. Share also with UNESCO. Short list of what we can ask from them. E.g. ccTLDs do UA events, and ask gvt to be part of the events. Bart: testimonials are one element. Your items are good elements for prep of the agenda. Do not add too many details here. People will not read. Next step is preparing the session, following the icann84 session, we could prepare a briefing paper. What you mentioned is perfect to build the session and introduce the areas for cooperation. Abdalmomen and Regina agree. Abdalmomen: ccNSO as role model. Join the WG. thanks for the input. Areas for cooperation, what encourages? Regina: what Seda described would be a good outcome of the session. Would also be good for the preparation. Would the info that there will be a session at the next SEEDIG in Athens. https://seedig.net/ the session on local languages online will be on Saturday 11 October 12-13 local time, CODI and Eurid in cooperation Action item: · Staff will clean up draft invite letter and send to UAC leaders * Theme, how to make it interesting from a GAC perspective as well, start with outcome consultations? Abdalmomen: involvement of GAC UA-IDN WG Vice chair. Bart: I will be on vacation from now onwards. The idea is, at the next meeting, the small team starts thinking about how to structure the session in Dublin. Volunteers: Abdalmomen, Regina, Sami, Seda, Qing Cai Smaller group to discuss the set-up of the meeting in Dublin. Suggestion is to turn this into a real working session, and use flipcharts. Qing Cai: Jiankang and I will be attending in person in Dublin. I can present about Chinese domain study 4. Next steps ICANN82 and ICANN83 consultations: turn outcome of sessions into actionable items Document introduced during the call on 16 July (re-circulated and updated) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SIZ2t8B5KDuNarQb9Uw3fgzU10-PlGEluCMtY3FJ... Bart: I added next steps Main question: how can you as UAC address the barriers to address some of the key barriers identified? See sticky notes in the whiteboard exercise Question: how can the UAC address key barriers to increase UA readiness within 5 years? This is really about actionable items. Vadim: add more entries in the library. Make sure the materials are relevant for ccTLDs. Which software do we use for our ccTLDs? Add the list in the library We all have docs for our own internal audits. This we can share Bart: how to expand the reach? Vadim: promote the library Abdalmomen: idea based on Vadim’s suggestions. FRED, COCA, other software providers attending icann meetings. Put them all at the table, make sure they are UA ready Bart: is that a role for UAC? Abdalmomen: UAC needs to increase adoption Qing Cai: have more ccTLDs join UAC and share case studies. Good to talk to others, such as GAC at ICANN84. Ai-Chin: lack of demand Khaled: likes the suggestion by Vadim Anne: not sure about the meaning of the barriers. Where to agree about the complexity and impact of each barrier? Tackle the low hanging fruits first. Jiankang: support by big tech. Maria: * i like the roadmap. Some work already done. Describe the typical cctld structure with models. How should the models be adjusted, to become UA ready? What do we want them to do? * Most of us have email addresses in idn scripts. Use them for tests * Motivate other ccTLDs to do this work. E.g. IDN marketing. * Platforms like reports and stats. Anything we can share with ccTLDs? Action item #2: · Staff will cluster the suggestions and share the report with UAC. then define the priorities and include them in the workplan. 5. AOB 6. Next meetings * Small group ( to start prepping UA joint session): Wednesday, 10 September at 13 UTC: small team only Wednesday, 17 September at 7 UTC: full UAC 7. Adjourn Joke Braeken joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>