<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the draft agenda for our CD meeting in Singapore. It looks like we will should a good-sized group of people on site, hopefully we can have the same via remote participation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Singapore+Meeting+2015-02-10" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Singapore+Meeting+2015-02-10</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="5" class="">NCUC Constituency Day @ ICANN 52, Singapore</font></b><br class=""><br class="">Tuesday, 10 February 2015 - 09:30 to 13:00 SGT<br class="">Hullet Room, Raffles City Convention Centre<br class=""><br class="">Remote participation information at <a href="http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-ncuc" class="">http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-ncuc</a> <br class="">Draft Agenda as of 29 January, subject to change<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">I. 9:30 – 10:30 Organizational Matters </b><br class=""><br class="">1. Participant introductions & adoption of agenda<br class="">2. Updates<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 2014 Election and the new Executive Committee<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• ICANN 52 events of particular interest (SOACSGC, NCUC, NCSG, GNSO, GNSO Review, human rights, </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CCWG-Internet governance, CCWG-Accountability, CWG-Stewardship, IGC, Public Forum, etc.)<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Reflections on the Noncontracted Parties House (NCPH) meeting and NCUC meetings in Washington DC, 12-14 January<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Budgetary <br class=""></div>3. Proposed NCPH conference in Buenos Aires before ICANN 53<br class="">4. The new Membership Affairs Team and the challenges of in-reach and engagement, especially for new members<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">10:30/40 – 11:00 ICANN coffee break<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">II. 11:00 – 12:00 The IANA Transition and Accountability</b><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Joining us for the discussion:</i><br class=""><br class="">Lawrence E. Strickling<br class="">Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration<br class=""><br class="">Fiona Alexander<br class="">Associate Administrator (Head of Office) for International Affairs, NTIA<br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Background Information:</i><br class=""><br class="">Remarks by Assistant Secretary Strickling at the State of the Net Conference 1/27/2015 <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/speechtestimony/2015/remarks-assistant-secretary-strickling-state-net-conference-1272015" class="">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/speechtestimony/2015/remarks-assistant-secretary-strickling-state-net-conference-1272015</a> <br class=""><br class="">NTIA IANA Functions’ Stewardship Transition & Enhancing ICANN Accountability Processes <a href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability" class="">https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability</a> <br class=""><br class="">The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) <a href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship/coordination-group" class="">https://www.icann.org/stewardship/coordination-group</a> <br class=""><br class="">CCWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/CCWG+on+Enhancing+ICANN+Accountability" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/CCWG+on+Enhancing+ICANN+Accountability</a> <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">III. 12:00 – 12:50 ICANN and the Global “Public Interest” </b><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Joining us for the discussion:</i><br class=""><br class="">Megan Richards<br class="">Principal Adviser of the Director General at DG CONNECT, European Commission<br class=""><br class="">Nora Abusitta <br class="">Vice President, Development and Public Responsibility Programs, ICANN (remote participation)<br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Background Information:</i><br class=""><br class="">The Strategy Panel on the Public Responsibility Framework (revised May 2014) <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/prf-" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/prf-</a>report-15may14-en.pdf proposed that, “ICANN defines the global public interest in relation to the Internet as ensuring the Internet becomes, and continues to be, stable, inclusive, and accessible across the globe so that all may enjoy the benefits of a single and open Internet.” The panel’s analysis was discussed inter alia in a February 2014 webinar https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-02-12-en. A Development and Public Responsibility Department was created to coordinate with the community and organization on related work, and held sessions at the London and Los Angeles meetings.<br class=""><br class="">The ICANN Draft Five-Year Operating Plan for FY2016- FY2020 (v.1, November 2014) lists “Strategic Objective 5 - Develop and implement a global public interest framework bounded by ICANN’s mission,” including the development of a “common consensus based definition of public interest” https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/proposed-opplan-budget-2016-2020-10nov14-en.pdf <br class=""><br class="">At a meeting with NCSG in Washington DC on 13 January, Fadi Chehadé told us, “clearly it's my job to define ICANN's public interest framework. This is clearly something we ought to do together. And I frankly welcome the NCSG to, if anything, take the lead on that.”<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">IV. 12:50 – 13:00 AOB</b><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
***********************************************<br class="">William J. Drake<br class="">International Fellow & Lecturer<br class=""> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br class=""> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class="">Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br class=""> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org" class="">www.ncuc.org</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" class="">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br class=""> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org" class="">www.williamdrake.org</a><br class="">***********************************************
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