<div dir="ltr">Thanks Rafik<div>This sounds good. at least GAC is beginning to realise they need the people not government to itself.</div><div>We shall explore it.</div><div>Remmy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Rafik Dammak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Hi Everyone,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee more info here <a href="https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/Governmental+Advisory+Committee" target="_blank">https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/Governmental+Advisory+Committee</a>) will organize two public sessions in ICANN meeting, I think that is the first attempt to outreach the rest of community (there are joint meeting with other advisory committee and supporting organization) </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">the first is a workshop about geo names and the second an open forum , all in GAC room (Palace Suite), more details below:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">"Wednesday 25 June 2014 0900-1000 </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">– Geographic Names Protection Briefing to Community by the Subgroup on Geographic Names to the Future gTLD Issues Working Group – Lead: Argentina</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Objectives: To inform and exchange with the community about considerations regarding protection of geographic names in future new gTLD application rounds.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Thursday 26 June 2014 0830-10:00</font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> – GAC Open Forum - open session for the community - Lead: Sweden</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Objectives: To inform and exchange with the community about the GAC and the GAC’s working methods, in accordance with ATRT2 Recommendation 6.1.a.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">"</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">For the Geo Names session, please find the attached document.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Best Regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br>
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Rafik</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></div></div>
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