<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Hago<div><br></div><div>I see you have forwarded the message I sent to the Cross Community WG. I’ve mentioned the conference a number of times online and at CD but it never hurts to repeat, so thanks for your interest. But you are way ahead of the game with respect to speakers, we won’t starting thinking about these until next year. The idea is to have really multistakeholder panels in order to advance cross-community engagement, which I think means we shouldn’t load up the panels with NCUC members (a point on which I got a lot of feedback re: previous conferences). So slots may be tight, but we’ll keep your interest in mind when it’s time to get serious about it.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 27, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Hago Dafalla <<a href="mailto:dafalla@YAHOO.COM">dafalla@YAHOO.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div><span>Dear Bill;</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> </span>Thank you very much for updating. I hope I have a chance to participate in this event. I hope to send me more information about, who to participate in this conference. I need to contribute in the conference process as one of the panelist and speaker. Also the theme of the meeting, the hot issue, etc ..</div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> Thanks</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Hago Dafalla</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>System Administrator and Network Manager</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Faculty of Engineering and Technology</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>University of Gezira<br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Wad Medani, Sudan</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>e-mail: <a href="mailto:dafalla@yahoo.com">dafalla@yahoo.com</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>or: <a href="mailto:hago.dafalla@gmail.com">hago.dafalla@gmail.com</a><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, 27 December 2013, 11:17, Patrik Fältström <<a href="mailto:paf@frobbit.se">paf@frobbit.se</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8345073782"><div>I am, like probably many of us, trying to have some time off over the holidays...but just wait ;-)<div><br clear="none"></div><div>
Patrik</div><div class="yiv8345073782yqt0317628926" id="yiv8345073782yqt15704"><br clear="none"><div><div>On 27 dec 2013, at 09:10, William Drake <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv8345073782Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="yiv8345073782yqt0317628926" id="yiv8345073782yqt99682"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;">Sure Patrik, but I’m not letting you off that easy…wasn’t just letting you know, I was soliciting your input!<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Bill<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><div><div>On Dec 26, 2013, at 7:07 PM, Patrik Fältström <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:paf@frobbit.se" target="_blank" href="mailto:paf@frobbit.se">paf@frobbit.se</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv8345073782Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for letting us know these things this long in advance Bill!<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Patrik<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 26 dec 2013, at 15:08, William Drake <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">Hi<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As I’m told some people are already beginning their travel planning for Singapore, I’d like to suggest that anyone interested in IG consider flying in a day early, on Thursday 20th. I've just received confirmation that NCUC has space reserved to hold an one-day conference at the venue on Friday 21 March. The working title is, "ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to Sao Paulo, and Beyond.” The precise details
will be worked out early next year, but for now I can say the following.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In terms of the substantive focus, there will be sessions devoted to the major foci of the April meeting in Sao Paulo. The Local Organizing Committee recently described these as<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">- Official launching of a review process of the global IG frameworks/models;<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Development of a set of universally acceptable core of principles for<br clear="none">global IG;<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Tentative draft of a global IG model.<br clear="none"></blockquote><br clear="none">which sounds a bit ambitious, and will presumably be refined in the months ahead. However the SP agenda is ultimately specified, we may want to do sessions in Singapore on topics like a potential declaration on global IG principles, and options for evolving the distributed
institutional architecture (consistent with the I* Montevideo Declaration) with respect to globalization, coordination, transparency/accountability/inclusive participation, and the role (inter)governmental frameworks and authority. We might also want to consider the progress and implications of some of the contextual developments, like the 1net and strategy panel initiatives, the growing need to support and enhance the IGF, etc.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In terms of format, given the keen interest and varying views generated by the SP meeting and related developments, we’d like to make this event as much of a “cross-community” dialogue as is possible (in a room that accommodates up to 150 people). So we will be reaching across silos to other stakeholders for panelists, as well as participants. In addition, if either this CWG or any of the individual SOs, ACs, or sub-groups therein would be interested in providing written
inputs (stuff being done either for other venues, or specially for this one) as background and conversational fodder, we could post these on the conference website. If people are feeling ambitious, we could even set up online discussion spaces for the respective sessions and themes…all depends on the level of interest.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">By way of background FYI, NCUC previously held conferences on IG in San Francisco <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amiando.com/ncucaticann.html">http://www.amiando.com/ncucaticann.html</a> and Toronto <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.amiando.com/NCUC-ICANN45.html">http://www.amiando.com/NCUC-ICANN45.html</a>.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I hope this will prove to be of some interest to the wider community. More to come….<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bill<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>