[PC-NCSG] NCSG Offer to Assist RE: Organization of ICANN Roundtable with Privacy Experts and Academics

[Robin Gross]

Dear Fadi,

I was encouraged to hear from you in Beijing that you intend to hold a roundtable discussions with privacy experts and academics in the near future, similar to the DNS industry roundtable discussions that ICANN has hosted recently.

As you may know, NCSG's diverse membership contains a number of leading privacy experts and academics in the Internet governance landscape and we would be very happy to work with your staff in the organization of this important discussion.  At the very least, we can recommend individuals active on Internet privacy and other academics knowledgable about ICANN whom ICANN could consider inviting to its roundtable discussion.  It is our hope that ICANN would engage the community in a bottom-up way regarding the organization of this discussion and we stand ready to help in any way needed.

NCSG welcomes an opportunity to foster a more constructive dialogue with staff and the proposed roundtable presents a great opportunity to work together on our shared goal to increase civil society participation at ICANN.  Please let me know how NCSG can assist in the facilitation of this discussion.

Thank you,
Robin