<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div id='yahoo__compose_area' style="background-color:white; display:block; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Regular,Helvetica;">Dear Tapani,<div>Thank you very much for the welcome mail. It is comprehensive and includes ALL info that new members like me may need. </div><div>Please allow some time to go though the links and react.</div><div>Wishing all the best to members</div><div>Gangadhar panday</div><div>Babul Films Society<br><br><br><a href="https://yho.com/footer0">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a></div></div><div id='yahoo__original_message' class='yQTDBase'><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex; ">On 17 నవంబర్ 2016 7:08:40, Tapani Tarvainen<ncsg@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:<div id="msgSandbox_AKeG8QoAADRCWC0KgghQ6KQ5fHE_TEXT" class="msgSandbox" style="padding: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em 1.2em; word-wrap: break-word;">Dear
all,<br><br>I am happy to welcome in the NCSG list our new members who were<br>approved by the NCSG EC.<br><br>They were successfully added to this mailing list and should able to read<br>this welcome message and follow the discussions from now on.<br><br>As NCSG Chair I'm here to support new and existing members in order to<br>help them be fully involved and participate in our policy discussion.<br>So, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.<br><br>There are many opportunities to learn about policy development:<br>NCSG's monthly policy call, the quarterly GNSO Working Group newcomers<br>Webinar, and many other calls, mailing lists and web resources.<br><br>You can see currently open public comment periods at<br><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public " target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public </a>and latest comments<br>from NCSG at <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg "
target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg </a>.<br>You can also check the recordings of NCSG confcalls<br><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/Ah7xAg " target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/x/Ah7xAg </a>.<br><br>While a lot discussion takes place on this list, there is lots of stuff<br>in our wikispace which is updated regularly, please take a look at<br><<a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home " target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home </a>or<br>more easy to remember ncsg.is. Browsing there will help you get an<br>idea of what we have done and are doing.<br><br>In particular if you want to know more about how to participate in<br>working groups and NCSG, please follow the announcements here and be<br>in touch with the Policy committee chair and me.<br><br>These links may also be of interest:<br><br>General tips:<br><a
href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved</a><br><br>List of working groups and their members:<br><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups</a><br><br>Policy comments and statements:<br><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development</a><br><br>Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings:<br><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record</a><br><br>A one-stop page about ICANN's policy efforts:<br><a
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href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/64248280811/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/64248280811/</a>).<br><br>Finally, if you begin to feel overwhelmed by ICANN acronyms, you will<br>find most of them in this glossary:<br><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-03-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-03-en</a><br><br>So, let's all welcome our latest members:<br><br>Individuals:<br><br>Nikole Yanez, Costa Rica<br>Ben Baichman-Kass, Israel<br>Jesse Järvi, Finland<br>Jyoti Panday, India<br>Amod Prakash Singh, India<br>Ranjit R Nair, India<br>Shahul Hameed, India<br>Sabarinath Pillai, India<br>Haoran Huang, China<br>Haziq Jeelani, India<br>Cintra Sooknanan, Trinidad and Tobago<br>Thato Mfikwe, South Africa<br>Narsimha Reddy Machennagari, India<br>Amal Al-saqqaf, Yemen<br>Vaibhav Aggarwal, India<br><br>Organizations and their representatives:<br><br>Babul Films, Gangadhar Panday,
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