NOTES | UAC | 13 August 2025 (13:00 UTC) 1. Welcome and roll call Welcome by Abdalmonem Apologies by QingCai 2. Admin matters a. SoI updates if any Fill out the ccNSO Statement of Interest form: https://forms.gle/79Jw4wSnNhn5W4Z46 Check your SOI here: https://community.icann.org/x/doAFEg Consult the ccNSO SOI Guideline: https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/ccnso-internal-pr... 21sep23-en.pdf Any updates? none b. Action items meeting 30 July • Action item #1: Abdalmomen to keep UAC informed about developments within GAC UA-IDN group, including the leadership changes and recent publications. • Action item #2: Staff to share the doc in a google version, and UAC members review it and add comments and suggestions, for discussion in 2 weeks (Completed) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SIZ2t8B5KDuNarQb9Uw3fgzU10-PlGEluCMtY3FJ... • Action item #3: Staff to add an introductory summary to the doc, and the link to the current workplan in the overview doc from ICANN82 and ICANN83 (Completed) Abdalmomen appointed as chair of the GAC UA-IDN WG. first meeting end august. First meeting, Sarmad and Seda’s support. UNESCO attending? 2 topics * Inaudible * Sami appointed as ccnso liaison to expert group. Pending appointment by other SO/ACs Bart: how many members? Abdalmomen: not sure. Think more around 10. Bart: you have to invite yourself for the meeting in Dublin 🙂but we need to know the size of the room Abdalmomen: we need to prepare an invite for the members and GAC staff c. Update UA Expert group Seda: Expert WG has been established. Checking the SOI’s from the members. Still some pending. Gathering preferred time for the regular meetings. One day next week, for the launch. Regular meetings following. Still pending some info from some members regarding availability. Abdalmomen: leadership will be Sarmad and Raymond. One of UA/IDN role models. Masha: could you please inform us about the list of members of the new group? Seda: yes, can share in chat Abdalmonem: 15 in total. Seda: not published yet Abdalmonem Person from unicode Edmun co-chair Unesco member (Guillerme or Taria) Jiankang from .cn Inaudible Unaidible W3C Sami from ccNSO Sean from Meta Thomas from stanford university 3. Overview ICANN82 and ICANN83 consultations See document introduced during the call on 16 July (re-circulated and updated) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SIZ2t8B5KDuNarQb9Uw3fgzU10-PlGEluCMtY3FJ... a. Discussion report consultations b. Review workplan c. Next steps Bart speaks to the report. No comments received. Regarding the next steps: * What can UAC do, to overcome the barriers? 5-year strategy is a reasonable time horizon * Once you identified the barriers and how to address them, what do you want to do first? You do not have the resources/time etc to do all at once. Maria: agree to look first at barriers. But also use the drivers. They can both help us. Regarding the barriers, if we want to be focused on ccTLDs, note that not all ccTLds understand what it means to be UA-ready. The roadmap is more general. We can be more explicit. What parts do ccTLD registries contain, and what do they need to update, to be UIA ready. Suggest to make docs and presentations around this. Reference to the UA paper. Typical structure of ccTLDs. Go deeper in this way. We also have a barrier regarding lack of tech expertise. Bart: triggers actions for UAC in short term. I believe at the next meeting, we should have a whiteboard where you can pencil the docs in. use this doc as a starting point. List the actions to address the barriers within a short timeframe. Let’s focus on this at the next meeting. Masha: work with other groups Bart: indeed, update workplan for the next years, and in parallel work on session with GAC Abdalmomen: 6 or 7 barriers identified. Each of these barriers needs to be addressed. How can we overcome these barriers? When do we start the plan? What are the actors? What are the responsibilities of each community? Masha: we want to do sth useful for ccTLDs, right? Cctlds globally. What can ccTLDs do, to move forward? Bart: focus on UA readiness of ccTLDs. You can only influence your own UAC actions. How can you assist ccTLDs? Maria: involve other communities. To ask help, suggestions Bart: examples: invite to UNESCO, liaison with GAC, with UA Expert Group. There is a lot of space on what this group could or should do over the next couple of years. Maria: software manufacturer. Survey with them. Survey usually made by icann. Maria: do we make a new report? Workplan? Bart: version 2 Why not publish it? So you know, and the community knows, what the group intends to do Regina: would be good opportunity to reach out to peers, with an invitation to our sessions, discuss what to do next. Invite others to join the group. Limited mandate, if they do not feel comfortable to dedicate more time. Seda: i have added some action items. Cctlds interested in building capacity. We could arrange trainings on this. Bart: this is brilliant, in the next phase. Bart: any immediate concerns about the doc? Please use your red marks. No red marks Proposal to draft an executive summary. I will circulate the link again, and ask if you have any comments. If none, we consider this adopted. We then start the process regarding the next steps, at the next UAC meeting. 4. ICANN84 session - GAC UA working group to UAC session to discuss government-ccTLD roles regarding UA readiness (tentatively agreed by GAC leadership) - Volunteers small group - Theme, how to make it interesting from GAC perspective as well, start with outcome consultations? Action item #1: · Staff to prepare draft invite, for review and comments by UAC leadership Bart: interaction with gvt and ccTLDs to increase UA readiness. Discussion format. What is actionable for gvt? What for ccTLDs? Any volunteers to prepare the joint session in Dublin? Abdalmomen and Regina Masha said she can join, but advises Sami to join too. Action item #2: · Staff to check if Sami is available to join the small planning team Abdalmomen: determine good slot to meet. 5. AOB none 6. Next meetings • Full UAC 27 August|07.00-08.00 UTC • Small group (to start prepping UA joint session): TBD’ed 7. Adjourn Joke Braeken joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>