<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NCSG members,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> This is my guide to ICANN 61. Most of the issues are a matter of concern for NCSG in general but since I am late and did not pass this document through Policy Committee, lets call it NCSG Chair ’s guide.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I have divided this guide by issues we care about but you can also see the sessions date and time in the attached file.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We start the ICANN 61 with the WS2 on accountability. Issues <span> </span>I have been following closely are: Jurisdiction, ombudsman and SOAC Accountability. We are going to just iron out some of the issues with these reports. They are in general good recommendations and we hope that the Board adopts them. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Our members have leading roles in diversity, human rights, transparency. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sessions that are of importance are the RDS group session which will be held on Saturday. This session is very important because it will discuss “whois purpose” and the documents it has so far provided are not consistent at all with ICANN mission regarding WHOIS purpose and are too broad. So if we want better privacy, we need to narrow these<span> </span>definitions and argue that many are not within ICANN mission. See you there to achieve this goal at RDS meeting?<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We will also have a Cross Community Session on GDPR, Stephanie Perrin will be there to bring forward our perspective.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If you want to fight with trademark overreach, attend the rights protection mechanisms meeting. If you want a balanced Trademark protection at ICANN that is less intrusive on registrants rights, attend the rights protection mechanisms WGs. Kathy Kleiman has long been active in this group and generally in dispute resolution in domain name and is our subject matter expert. She will be busy but you might want to reach out to her. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of NCSG goals is to keep DNS abuse definition a technical one so that it can’t be used by overzealous intellectual property enthusiasts to argue that copyright infringement is DNS abuse. To do that we need to be organized and strategic. Try to attend the session called “How it works: understanding DNS abuse”. There is also a project being led by ICANN called Domain Name Abuse Activity Reporting. <a href="https://www.icann.org/octo-ssr/daar" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.icann.org/octo-ssr/daar</a> This project can also be problematic and they will have a meeting on Thursday which you might want to attend.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">GAC is up to many things this meeting but most important one is GDPR ( they have a meeting on that) . Their public safety group will have a meeting with them to talk about GDPR! And that would be an interesting meeting if it’s open to the public (I assume it is). If open, it is good to see what they are planning (or I call it cook it for the next couple of months). GAC’s well known action to claim two letter domain at the second level will be also discussed in San Juan. Unfortunately it conflicts with our NCSG inreach but I will ask our GNSO GAC liaison to let us know what they are planning to claim next. They will discuss .Amazon and Geographic names as well. Probably some GAC members want to claim all geographic names even when they are generic names! Would be good to keep an eye on that as well.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We will also have a meeting with them to discuss various matters, mostly privacy and rights protection mechanism. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We have many meetings at constituency and SG level. Michael is also leading the transparency session at cross community session. Meetings vary from NPOC and NCUC outreach to inreach, to policy writing course (NCUC) to NCSG policy committee meeting. We also have our usual meeting with the Board.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">You see other meetings in my schedule which I have not mentioned here. You can find their description on ICANN schedule. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hope this is helpful, I will make it more organized and add links to the meetings soon.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">See you in person or remotely at ICANN 61. <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
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