Dear All,<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261193363"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261193873">I would like to congratulate all new members and warm welcome to the group. Please feel free to contact me to get along this group. </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261533146"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261534146"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261543941">Shiva Upadhyay </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261557638">Technology Analyst, CDAC</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261566279">IG-SIM India</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261625934">+91 9717992652<br id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1570261180629"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 17:02, Amr Elsadr</div><div><aelsadr@ICANNPOLICY.NINJA> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv3689798956"><div>Welcome to all the new members. I’m especially glad to see Souad Abidi on the list of new individual members. I met her earlier this year at the Middle East & Adjoining Countries (MEAC) SIG, and am thrilled that she has joined the NCSG.<div class="yiv3689798956"><br clear="none" class="yiv3689798956"></div><div class="yiv3689798956">Thanks.</div><div class="yiv3689798956"><br clear="none" class="yiv3689798956"></div><div class="yiv3689798956">Amr<br clear="none" class="yiv3689798956"><div class="yiv3689798956yqt8803185231 yQTDBase" id="yiv3689798956yqt66009"><div><br clear="none" class="yiv3689798956"><blockquote class="yiv3689798956" type="cite"><div class="yiv3689798956">On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:05 PM, Stephanie Perrin <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3689798956" ymailto="mailto:stephanie.perrin@MAIL.UTORONTO.CA" target="_blank" href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@MAIL.UTORONTO.CA">stephanie.perrin@MAIL.UTORONTO.CA</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="yiv3689798956Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="yiv3689798956">
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<div class="yiv3689798956"><font class="yiv3689798956" size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I am very happy to welcome our new organizational and individual members who were approved by the NCSG EC this fall.<br clear="none" class="yiv3689798956">
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<div class="yiv3689798956"><font class="yiv3689798956" size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I am happy as the NCSG chair, to support new and existing members in order to assist them in becoming fully involved, in order to participate in our
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<div class="yiv3689798956"><font class="yiv3689798956" size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">There are many opportunities to learn about policy development, but a good place to start is our monthly policy call, which usually takes place during
the week of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council call. This month, the Council call will take place on October 24 at 12:00 UTC, and the full details and schedule of Council activities can be found here : <span class="yiv3689798956"> </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3689798956gmail-m_-1310426548402761256moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar">https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar</a>.
Watch for announcements of policy and working group webinars on this list, they are targeted to help bring us all up to date with what is happening in difference groups and topic areas. Please note the quarterly GNSO Working Group newcomers Webinar, for which
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<div class="yiv3689798956"><font class="yiv3689798956" size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Because we are coming up to the Annual meeting to be held in Montreal from November 2-7 (</font><font class="yiv3689798956" size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3689798956" target="_blank" href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/montreal66">https://meetings.icann.org/en/montreal66</a>),
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