<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi everyone,</span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We will<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> start today the ICANN meeting with a packed Day 1 where we have several NCSG sessions. I encourage you to join and you can find more info below.</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some highlights:</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">- Starting the day by meeting with our colleagues in GNSO, in the contracted party house (registries and registrars). We will discuss with them about Human Rights Impact Assessment on DNS abuse and accuracy for registration data among other topics.</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">- We will have a session organized by NCSG about  </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Human Rights Impact Assessment on DNS abuse as follow-up of the previous session in the Istanbul meeting and talking about different use cases.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- We will have our second joint meeting, this time with our colleagues in the non contracted party house, the Commercial Stakeholder Group. This is a continuation of the Day 0 meeting we had in Istanbul and it will hopefully be a regular session at each ICANN meeting. We will discuss a mix of topics between administrative matters  preparing and planning for next day 0 in Oman meeting, board seat 14 procedures, DNS abuse, input to ICANN CEO and WSIS+20.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">- Last NCSG meeting will be with the policy committee, where we and GNSO councillors will prepare for the joint GNSO sessions with GAC and board.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">0900-1000<a href="https://icann82.sched.com/event/1vpVz/joint-session-gnso-cph-and-ncsg-memberships-work-session" target="_blank"> CPH with NCSG Membership</a></font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">1030-1200 <a href="https://icann82.sched.com/event/1vpVt/gnso-how-to-do-an-hria-when-mitigating-dns-abuse" target="_blank">NCSG HRIA Session</a></font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">1315-1430 <a href="https://icann82.sched.com/event/1vpXi/gnso-ncph-work-session" target="_blank">NCPH wok session</a></font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">1500-1600 <a href="https://icann82.sched.com/event/1vpYL/gnso-ncsg-policy-committee-work-session-1-of-2" target="_blank">NCSG PC</a></font></span></li></ul><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">you can join the other sessions to get  some awareness about policy topics or continuous improvement track in GNSO (our colleague and GNSO councilor Manju Chen was just appointed as chair for this committee)</span></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">13:15 – 14:30: </span><a href="https://icann82.sched.com/event/1vpYP/gnso-latin-script-diacritics-pdp-working-group" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">Latin Script Diacritics PDP Working Group</a></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">16:30 – 17:30: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,20);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://icann82.sched.com/event/1vpYO/gnso-scci-session" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Standing Committee on Continuous Improvement (SCCI)</a></span></li></ul></font><p class="MsoNormal">you should find the remote participation link in each session page and we will try to send them to the list too. As a reminder, you can find the whole schedule <a href="https://icann82.sched.com/">here</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Rafik</font></div></div></div>
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