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<div>All:</div><div><br></div>I hope you all will join in next Tuesday's NCSG Open Meeting in Beijing. If you won't be in Beijing for ICANN #46, please join the discussion remotely. Draft agenda and remote participation details are below. We've got some great speakers coming to talk with us, so I hope you will join in the discussion.<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Robin<br><div><br></div><div><b>Tuesday, 9 April 2013 - NCSG Open Membership Meeting at ICANN #46 in Beijing, China</b></div><div> 13:30 - 15:30 (Beijing local = <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">UTC/GMT +8 hours)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "> Room: Function 9</span></span></div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Discussion Agenda</span></b></div><div><div><br></div><div><b> 1. Welcome and introductions from membership [ 13:30 ]</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b> 2. WHOIS Expert Working Group</b> (aka "gtld Directory Services") [ 13:45 ]</div><div> - Visit from <a href="http://idtrail.org/content/view/51/43/">Stephanie Perrin</a>, member of <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14feb13-en.htm">ICANN's Expert Working Group on Whois </a></div><div> Background: ICANN <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40175189">Wiki </a>on Expert Working Group</div><div><br></div><div> <b>3. ICANN Outreach and Engagement Efforts</b> [ 13:45 ]</div><div> - Visit from <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/costerton.htm">Sally Costerton</a>, ICANN staff member responsible for outreach and stakeholder engagement</div><div><br></div><div> <b>4. </b><b>Open membership discussion on growing trend at ICANN to replace the bottom-up community-led policy development with top-down ICANN staff unilateralism </b> [ 14:45 ]</div><div><br></div><div><b> 5. ICANN's Accountability Transparency Reliability Team (ATRT-2) </b> [ 15:00 - 15:30 ]</div><div> - Visit from some members of <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15feb13-en.htm">ATRT-2</a>. NCSG members can ask questions of team and provide input into team's work on ways ICANN can improve its accountability, transparency and reliability in carrying out its mission.</div><div>- Background: <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40176025">ICANN wiki on ATRT2</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>Note: NCSG moves to Grand Hall A at 15:30 for NCSG's meeting with the ICANN Board of Directors</i></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Remote Participation for NCSG Open Meeting:</span></b></div><div>* Adobe Connect with audio streaming:</div><div> <a href="http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37105">http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37105</a></div><div><br></div><div>* Telephone Dial-in Numbers:</div><div> <a href="http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCSG_Passcodes.htm">http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCSG_Passcodes.htm</a></div><div> Passcode: NCSG</div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>If you need a dial-out, please let me know 24 hours in advance so I can request the dial-out to you in time for the mtg. Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>** The above agenda lives on the NCSG wiki here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCSG+Beijing+Meeting+2013-04-09">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCSG+Beijing+Meeting+2013-04-09</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><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></div></body></html>