Name: IDN and UA Community Update
Start: 2025-05-27T18:30:00+0200
End: 2025-05-27T19:30:00+0200

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ICANN83 Policy Forum will be held in Prague, Czech Republic at the Prague Congress Centre from 9-12 June 2025.
This will be a hybrid meeting with both in-person and virtual participation.
All sessions will be conducted during regular working hours in Prague, Czech Republic, (Central European Summer Time, CEST / UTC +2).

Prep Week will be conducted on 27 & 28 May 2025. The Prep Week schedule will be published on 5 May 2025.
The comprehensive schedule will be published on 19 May 2025.
For more event information please visit the meeting website.
To register for ICANN83, visit: https://events.icann.org/icann83/registration

All participants are expected to conduct themselves on a professional level and will be held to the standards set forth in the ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy and Terms of Participation and Complaint Procedure and the ICANN Expected Standards of Behavior.

Tuesday May 27, 2025 18:30 - 19:30 CEST

Prep 1

18:30 CEST (UTC+2), 27 May 2025
16:30 UTC, 27 May 2025
Prep 1
ID# 16770

Session Details
This session will include an update on the ongoing implementation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and the work by the community and ICANN org to promote the Universal Acceptance (UA) of all domain names and email addresses. Those in DNS industry, software developers, email service providers, and policy makers promoting choice and digital inclusion using domain names and email addresses are encouraged to attend.

Session Leader: Pitinan Koo
Staff Facilitator: Sarmad Hussain

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive
Archivo de audio en español
Archive audio en français

Facilitators

Sarmad Hussain

Senior Director, IDN and UA Programs, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance (UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair position in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions... Read More →