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ICANN86 Seville

103 open sessions from ICANN86, transcribed from ICANN's audio and cut to what named people said and asked. A directory of 927 speakers. The ENS read is first; the full meeting follows.

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ICANN86 for ENS

Three new ICANN bodies are now working on alternative and blockchain naming.

  1. SSAC blockchain work party. Chaired by Rick Wesson, integrating other naming systems "aimed at technologies in the blockchain space" into the DNS. RSSAC-SSAC open mic
  2. Study group on alternative root systems. ICANN launched it during the meeting, with a small team. At-Large OFB-WG
  3. Blockchain technical evaluation board. ICANN set it up for "blockchain-based innovation and how it might be integrated or work with the DNS." At-Large regional leaders

Also at ICANN86

  • KYC for AI agents. GoDaddy and Identity Digital floated identity verification for autonomous agents. AI and DNS abuse
  • "Recreate hosts.txt." John Levine called blockchain naming an attempt to rebuild the flat pre-DNS host file. SSAC lightning talks
  • Name collision. SSAC's collision guidance is built into the 2026 new-gTLD round (applications close Aug 12), which decides what enters the DNS root. new gTLD round

Questions that touch ENS

  1. Will AI agents drive demand for machine-centric identifiers, and is the technical community working on it?agents Simone Catania, Euralo → Ulrich, ICANN · Identifiers at ICANN
  2. How will ICANN respond to the Linux Foundation and IETF “agent DNS” drafts now circulating?agents Huda Shehi → Lauren Weisinger, SSAC · AI and DNS abuse
  3. Should AI agents be in the PDP-2 API definition, or do DNS-abuse AI concerns wait five years?agents Crystal Ando, Google → Keith Dracic · RySG work session
  4. Is there an ICANN policy on punycode, and are emojis allowed in domain names?confusability Adrian Block → Ulrich, ICANN · Identifiers at ICANN
  5. Does Mandarin encoding work the same as the IDN XN-- mechanism?confusability Jia Wei, TWNIC → Ulrich, ICANN · Identifiers at ICANN
  6. What sets pricing for IDN variants, auction or another mechanism?IDN Samuel Karioki → Pitinan Piyakulwijit, ICANN · IDN, how it works
  7. Make UA readiness mandatory in public procurement, since only 10% of top-1000 sites accept IDNs (proposed).UA Sal Yaquobi, NextGen → Barry Leba · NextGen presentations

Who is working on it

  • Rick Wesson chairs the SSAC work party on blockchain-into-DNS integration.
  • Ram Mohan (SSAC chair) frames it; "alternative namespaces" is one of SSAC's five keystone topics.
  • John Levine and Lauren Weisinger (SSAC) raised the hosts.txt critique and the agent-DNS question.
  • Michael Palage spoke this meeting on registry / RSP economics, not blockchain. ASP platform
icann86·§1·key-judgments

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    icann86·§2·sessions

    Every session, by ICANN body

    Grouped by the ICANN body that ran it. Each brief leads with the takeaway, then what named people said or asked (questions marked). ENS relevance noted only where it exists.

    icann86·§3·people

    People directory

    Everyone who spoke, deduped and grouped by ICANN role. Each name links to the sessions they spoke in.

    icann86·§4·sources

    Sources & the editing rubric

    Every transcribed session with its primary sources. Transcripts are local files generated from the official audio.

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