<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Any thoughts? I don't want to spend the whole time on intraorganizational matters, we laid that foundation last time and some members seemed to find such discussions uninteresting. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Agreed. If we do do another session like Beijing some of our members would be looking for impeachment clauses in our bylaws. As there are none, I believe beheading would be the next logical option. </div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>We didn't get time to really discuss the question of rebooting or killing the NCUC PC and the larger questions this raises, so that would seem to be one focus. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The role of the NCUC, including the PC issue, is very important. This relates to the Bylaws as well. It would be nice to get this done.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to invite a local, someone not ordinarily involved in ICANN, to speak for about 10 minutes. It could be a politician, head of a CS group, someone who might not ordinarily be at an ICANN meeting, or even a speaker from one of our less active institutional members.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd prefer politicians, frankly, so we can start developing some ties in that arena but for Durban I was thinking we should invite an officer from the Centre for Civil Society:</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?10,5">http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?10,5</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>CSS is a NCUC member. I think it would be great to get a local perspective on the various issues we're concerned with. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org" target="_blank">Glen@icann.org</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Durban meeting information </b><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">May 20, 2013 11:29:53 PM GMT+02:00<br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>>, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" target="_blank">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">"<a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org" target="_blank">gnso-secs@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org" target="_blank">gnso-secs@icann.org</a>><br>
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<div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Robin and Bill,<br><br>Would you please provide the following information for the Stakeholder Day meetings on Tuesday, 16 July 2013, in Durban and please let me have this no later than<span> </span><b>MONDAY, 27 May 2013.<u></u><u></u></b></span></div>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Session Title, Overview, and Agenda</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red">Are you happy with text or do you want to add to it:<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Non Commercial Users Constituency (</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">NCUC) day meeting – this is the scheduled NCUC meeting at the ICANN meeting in Beijing<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All publicly posted sessions<span> </span><b>MUST</b><span> </span>have a description. What is the session about? Who is the audience? Speakers?<span> </span><br>
• a breakdown of topics to be discussed<br>• a list of speakers/panellists split up according to relevant subject<br>• an explanation of the session’s goals and expected outcomes<br>• hyperlinks to relevant documentation.<br>
<br>The objective is to ensure that community leaders and participants, especially remote participants, are able to evaluate whether or not this is a session they wish to attend, so the more information you can give about it the better.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Preferred Time – please state</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Avoid overlapping regularly scheduled breaks (see below).<span> </span><br>
If you need closed sessions during your meeting, please state the time and please try to make these either at the beginning or the end of meeting, rather than mid-morning or mid-afternoon. We will try and keep to the same time slot as in Beijing for the Stakeholder Group/Constituency consultations with the Board, that is 3:30pm – 4:30pm – Board with NCSG,<span> </span><span style="color:red">but this still has to be confirmed</span>.<span><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Estimated Number of Attendees<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span> </span>– (</span>very important to optimize the space)<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
<br></span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Preferred set-up – U shape, Theatre, Class room, Board room, rounds<br>
please state, but please be aware that this depends on the conference center layout and we will do our best to fulfill your request but cannot guarantee the set-up you request.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Remote Participation</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Will you have remote presenters?<u></u><u></u></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Audio Visual Requirements</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Please note any special requests with regard to:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 288pt 0.0001pt 108pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Adobe connect,<b><span> </span>- name of person who could run Adobe Connect<br>
</b>audio streaming,<span> </span><br>recording,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 288pt 0.0001pt 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <span> </span></span> transcription,<span> </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <span> </span></span> teleconferencing.<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fixed Breaks</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span>(Note: Requests for in-room coffee during the regularly scheduled coffee breaks will not be considered.)<br>
AM Coffee Break: 10:30 – 11:00<br>Lunch Break: 12:30 – 13:30<br>PM Coffee Break: 16:30 – 17:00<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red">IMPORTANT</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
Please provide a full description, the date and time of any other meetings that you anticipate your group will need, especially if you have Audio Visual requirements for such meetings. Please state whether the meetings will be public sessions or closed sessions, that is intended only for a certain group. No requests will be considered<span> </span><span style="color:red">after 31 MAY<span> </span><b>2013.</b></span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<br>Thank you so much.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Kind regards.<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Glen<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Glen de Saint Géry<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">GNSO Secretariat<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://gnso.icann.org</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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**********************************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br>
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