<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Welcome new members, some old faces. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Regards,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:06 PM Stephanie Perrin <<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I am pleased to welcome our new members to the NCSG! David Cake, Niels ten Oever and Arsene Tungali are hardly new to us, but they are changing their status from group members to individual members and vice verse.</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">David Cake, Australia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">Niels ten Oever, Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">Kristi Hoffmaster, United States</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">Organization:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">Rudi International, Arsene Tungali, Democratic Republic of the Congo</span></p>
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<div><font 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 policy discussions and contribute to the work we do.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions or would like advice on where to start. We have many experienced members and officers who are happy to help. I have put our Policy Chair Rafik Dammak in cc for your easy reference.<br>
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<div><font 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> </span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar" target="_blank">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
the schedule will be shared in due time.</font></div>
<div><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Because we are coming up to the policy meeting to be held in Cancun from March7-12 (</font><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><a href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/montreal66" target="_blank">https://meetings.icann.org/en/cancun67</a>),
there will be special webinars on topics to be discussed at the Annual Meeting. We will send them to this list as we get them, they are a great way to learn about the issues.<br>
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<div><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Rafik Dammak is the chair of the NCSG Policy committee, and he shares updates on calls for public comment regularly on this list. To follow the public comments calls, go here</font><br>
<font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public</a>. The next policy committee meeting
will be held just prior to the GNSO Council call; our ICANN support person Maryam Bakoshi will be sending out reminders for that meeting.<br>
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<div><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Here is some basic information you should keep somewhere:</font><font size="+1"><br>
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<li><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Home" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Home</a>
This is our website where recent activity and upcoming meetings are posted.</font></li><li><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:12.7273px"></span></font><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">List of working groups and members involved there <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups</a> </font><br>
</li><li><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Policy comments and statements here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development</a> </font></li><li><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: <span> </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meeting+Records" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meeting+Records</a><br>
</font></li><li><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">To catch up with ongoing discussion see the mailing list archive:</font>
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