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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Great opportunity to know about what will be happening at ICANN 61. If we get the time, we can also do a pre-webinar. If not I will send an email with our activities.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-02-08-en" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.icann.org/news/<wbr>announcement-2-2018-02-08-en</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Register Now: Pre-ICANN61 Policy Open House – 1 March 2018<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The Policy Development Support Team is pleased to announce two sessions for an upcoming webinar:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Pre-ICANN61 Policy Open House<br><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday, 1 March 2018</span></span><br><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:00 and 19:00</span></span><span> </span>Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-st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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): WHOIS Compliance Models</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">A Walk in the Shoes of a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Registry Operator</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Name Collisions</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Open Data at ICANN</li></ul></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Policy development processes underway in the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) and the Address Supporting Organization (ASO):<ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Retirement of Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Next-Generation Registration Directory Service to Replace WHOIS</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">International Governmental Organizations and International Non-Governmental Organizations Access to Curative Rights Dispute Resolution Mechanisms</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Protections for Red Cross National Society Names in the Domain Name System</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">New gTLD Subsequent Procedures</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Regional Internet Registry policy development activities</li></ul></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Advisory Committee activities within the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) and Security & Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC):<ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Organizational Review of the At-Large community</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">At-Large Summit (ATLAS) III</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">GAC discussion on the .amazon Independent Review Process</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">GAC discussion on evolving relationships with ICANN Board and ICANN Org</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">RSSAC statement on entries in DNS Root Sources</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">RSSAC & SSAC Response to the GNSO's New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group on Root Scaling</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">SSAC Response to the ICANN Internationalized Domain Name Guidelines Working Group</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">SSAC work concerning the use of emoji in domain names</li></ul></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Other topics of note:<ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Organizational Review of the ASO</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">ccNSO Rejection Action Procedure as a Decisional Participant in the ICANN Empowered Community</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0in">Impact of ICANN's Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on ccTLDs</li></ul></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The Policy Development Support Team looks forward to helping the ICANN community prepare for ICANN61!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Please register via<span> </span><a href="https://goo.gl/vZw8kM" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">this form</a><span> </span>by<span> </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">26 February 2018</span></span>!</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>About ICANN<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u></u> </p>

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