<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 17.0px Arial; color: #333333"><b>ICANN NCSG Policy Discussion</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 17.0px Arial; color: #333333"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 17.0px Arial; color: #333333"><b>Topic: Finding the Public Interest in the Registry-Registrar Ownership-Separation Issue</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 17.0px Arial; color: #333333"><b>Date: Friday 11 December 2009</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 17.0px Arial; color: #333333"><b>Time: 15:00 UTC (1 hour)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 20px; "><br><b></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This NCSG policy discussion will be held via an international telephone conference line bridge, so members can dial-in on the telephone from an access number specifically for their home country. For individual country dial-in numbers and pass code <a href="http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/phone-Passcodes.htm"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>click here</u></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Attached to this email is v.1 of the proposed NCSG position statement for consideration and discussion on Friday. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Additional background materials are posted to the website announcement of this discussion here: <a href="http://ncdnhc.org/xn/detail/2233151:Event:3145?xg_source=activity">http://ncdnhc.org/xn/detail/2233151:Event:3145?xg_source=activity</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">ICANN Webinar presentation and Adobe recoding has been posted here: <font><a href="http://http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/related-en.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/related-en.htm</font></a></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">At-Large Page on Rr-Ry Separation Issue: <a href="https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?vertical_integration_registries_registrars">https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?vertical_integration_registries_registrars</a></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#797979" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Please feel free to post additional documents and comments on these materials to aid in the development of a group position. And don't feel like you have to wait until Friday to dive into the discussion - we can use this list in the meantime.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Thank you! I hope you all will join in Friday's discussion.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Best,</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Robin</span></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><br></font></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><span></span></div></span></div></body></html>