<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As it is organised in Benin, many other country-mates and members of NCSG (Yazid, Mathias, etc) are attending.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do agree about the importance of Domain name registrants discussions, it is definitely true.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Jul 2018, at 04:39, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@PUNKCAST.COM" class="">joly@PUNKCAST.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please note that an IGF is also scheduled to take place in Nigeria today & tomorrow.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">They have booked a livestream slot. <a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/nigf2018/" class="">https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/nigf2018/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">benakin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Farz,<div class="">Thank you for sharing and I completely agree with you.</div><div class="">Unfortunately this meeting has not come up on any of the ICANN related platforms I participate in Nigeria and regional. I believe it is important to have been involved during the planning of the meeting. </div><div class="">The awareness for this event was limited (personal opinion); that limited opportunity to influence the content, the meeting also coincides with the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum 2018. Both meeting will be requiring the same sets of multi-stakeholders at least those from Nigeria.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope they do some adjustment to include civil society concerns and registrants rights. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe we can have NCUC and NCSG members in Cotonou participate, the meeting does not seem to have remote participation arrangement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Benjamin</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 5:50 PM, farzaneh badii <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Africa DNS Forum is going to happen tomorrow. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Here is the website: <a href="https://dnsforum.africa/" target="_blank" class="">https://dnsforum.afri<wbr class="">ca/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is the program: <a href="https://dnsforum.africa/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Draft-Agenda-Africa-DNS-Forum-2018.pdf" target="_blank" class="">https://dnsforum.afri<wbr class="">ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/<wbr class="">Draft-Agenda-Africa-DNS-Forum-<wbr class="">2018.pdf</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Like many of the other regional DNS Forums (we had some improvement in the Middle EastDNS Forum), looking at the agenda, it is very industry oriented with not much focus on registrants rights. The program looks very similar to GDD summit while ICANN argues that it's for all the regional stakeholders to attend and bring the perspectives. While this is not closed to civil society, I do not see any domain name registrants' rights perspective sessions except the GDPR session which has a compliance focus. We also don't know who the speakers will be. We have not been able to change this unfortunately in many of the regional DNS forum and be included in the program (other than the Middle East DNS Forum).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Is anyone from NCSG attending? DNS forums should become good occasions to discuss regional problems that domain name registrants face and how their rights are impacted. I am not sure at the moment we see any of that. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best </div><span class="m_1818867734348981864HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="m_1818867734348981864m_1560738493100409115gmail-m_8256959807752686546gmail-m_6447538856520287792gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></font></span></div>
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