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Hi All,<br>
I would like to urge you to join me at a special meeting on Monday
from 11am - 12:15pm. It is <i><b>Next Generation - gTLD Directory
Services</b></i>, and it is the presentation of the work
conducted by the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services
(EWG) -- better known by its nickname <i><b>The Whois Expert
Working Group. </b></i>This meeting immediately follows the
Welcome Ceremony in Grand Hall A.<br>
<br>
Stephanie Perrin, an amazing former member of the Canadian Data
Protection Commission and a longtime leader of privacy and data
protection, is a member of this Expert Working Group. Robin has
invited Stephanie to join us on Tuesday, so why bother to attend
this meeting on Monday?<br>
<br>
The reason why is that Whois Expert WG needs you -- all of us -- to
speak up for privacy, data protection and free speech. It is clear
from the way the Expert WG is constructed that Stephanie is alone.
She is the only privacy/data protection person on this Expert
Working Group, amidst a number of commercial representatives. The
latter want accuracy and accessibility. Privacy is not their
priority.<br>
<br>
But it is our priority! And we need be there to share with the
whole Whois WG that we are solidly behind Stephanie, and her deep
concern for privacy protections and legal compliance by ICANN's
future Whois plans with privacy and data protection rules and
frameworks worldwide! <br>
<br>
Please join me in person or remotely. Remote access info available
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37051">http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37051</a><br>
In person: please find me and we'll sit as a privacy block :-).<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Kathy<br>
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