<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="Section1"><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Forwarded From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Marika Konings<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br><br>Dear Constituency / Stakeholder Group Leaders,<br><br>Please find below a ‘hold the date’ announcement for a webinar that ICANN policy staff will be organizing on policy development with the objective to engage new participants in ICANN, and especially GNSO policy development activities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">We hope you will share this announcement with organizations / individuals that you think might or should be interested in getting more involved in ICANN.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>As a follow up to this webinar, and to take advantage of the next ICANN meeting taking place in Brussels where many organizations and companies have representations, we are exploring the concept of a GNSO Constituency / Stakeholder Group Networking event to take place on Tuesday afternoon / evening at the end of constituency day. The idea would be to invite interested parties with your help to attend this event at which each constituency / stakeholder group has an opportunity to provide a short presentation about themselves to the audience. In addition, each constituency / stakeholder group would be allocated a table / corner in the room, so that conversations can be continued with interested participants. We hope such an event might help attract new participants to GNSO policy development as well as the GNSO Community as a whole. We would be interested to hear whether your constituency / stakeholder group would be interested in participating in such an event before considering any further arrangements. Please share your feedback with Marika Konings at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><span style="color: blue; "><a href="marika.konings@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">marika.konings@icann.org</a></span></u>.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Marika</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">WEBINAR: Policy Development at ICANN</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">How you can help ICANN Shape the Future of the Internet<br></span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">20 May 2010 at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC</span><o:p></o:p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br>Hold the date! On Thursday 20 May at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC, ICANN Policy Staff will host a webinar that introduces newcomers to the world of ICANN and policy development. The webinar will provide an overview of ICANN as an organization, who develops policy at ICANN (and how), and most importantly, how you can become involved and help ICANN to shape the future of the Internet. Further details on how to sign up will follow shortly, but for now, please hold the date. Please feel free to forward this announcement to individuals and/or organisations you think might be interested.</span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">About ICANN:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world, so that there can be one global Internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers, primarily the domain name system (DNS), IP addresses, and port numbers. For further information, please visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.icann.org</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>