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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Would appreciate a report on your impressions. I had time to listen in for about 45 minutes this morning, mostly about geographic names. My impression was that the whole discussion was very inconclusive and consisted of relatively clueless GAC members, e.g. from Germany and UK, reiterating debates over geographic names that we have been having for years, not contributing anything new in terms of information or policy and really not pressing ICANN to make specific changes. GAC members themselves did not seem of one mind about the issue, although sharing certain “concerns.” But that was a very small sample of the total interaction, so want to know what you saw/heard/thought. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NCSG-NCUC [mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Drake<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 28, 2011 4:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br><b>Subject:</b> [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] GAC-Board meeting in Brussels now<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Just a quick reminder that this much anticipated meeting is happening now and continues tomorrow. The GAC's "scorecard" of advice on new gTLD issues, staff background papers, webcast, scribe text and Adobe Connect are all at <a href="http://meetings.icann.org/board-gac-spring11">http://meetings.icann.org/board-gac-spring11</a>. There's also a twitter feed #ICANN. We observers have no speaking rights in the room, but if any members have particular issues/questions they'd like to raise in other contexts feel free. We're currently talking about root scaling…<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>