<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Board will have its first meeting of the year in on 26 and 27 Jan.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">You can listen in:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><u>Saturday January 26</u></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><u><br></u></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>18:30-19:00 UTC</b> Board FY19 Priorities- Updates. The link to Adobe Connect room <a href="https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/" target="_blank">https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/</a> [during this segment the board will endlessly talk about its priorities for FY19 which are suspiciously similar to tasks it should have conducted 15-20 years ago. But joking aside you should  know that apparently, they want to re-open the painful discussion of global public interest and talk about access model (this is what I know since October unless they have changed it-which, is ... not likely ) <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>21:30-22:30 UTC </b>GEO Names as TLDs PDP- Track 5. The link to Adobe Connect room <a href="https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/" target="_blank">https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/</a> [this is the track where Board will discuss how to make the recommendation of Geo names team more to the liking of GAC. Because they deserve to reserve names they will never use./this is a joke for now]</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><u>Sunday January 27</u></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>18:00-19:00 UTC </b>Board Public Meeting. The link to Adobe Connect room <a href="https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/" target="_blank">https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I think this is their agenda: <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/agenda-2019-01-27-en">https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/agenda-2019-01-27-en</a> For some reason I don't see WS2 in it but perhaps I am looking at the wrong place</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>23:30-00:30 UTC </b>WS2 Implementation. The link to Adobe Connect room <a href="https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/" target="_blank">https://participate.icann.org/opencommunity/</a> [I hope they start the jurisdiction implementation soon. There are many other sub groups that are important.]</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Best</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div></div>