There's been some discussion, initiated by ALAC, as to whether a workshop on SOPA and related issues would be a good thing to do in San Jose.  Apparently the ccNSO has already decided to do something, but it's Tuesday afternoon.  If we don't have a really full agenda for the NCSG bit after lunch, the below might be of interest to folks here as an alternative…

Bill

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> From: William Drake <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: February 9, 2012 12:46:06 PM GMT+01:00
> To: GNSO Council List <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [council] Fwd: [soac-discussion] SOPA Discussions
> 
> An interesting 'solution'…
> 
> Too bad it's being held during constituency day...
> 
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
> 
>>> De : Lesley Cowley <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Objet : Rép : [soac-discussion] SOPA Discussions
>>> Date : 8 février 2012 19:52:47 HNEC
>>> À : Stéphane Van Gelder <[log in to unmask]>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Cc : "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, ICANN AtLarge Staff <[log in to unmask]>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Given Stéphane's latter comment, perhaps I should re-mention cNSO has
>>> scheduled a session on this at 4.00pm on the Tuesday afternoon, and it is
>>> open to all. Sharing developments within ccTLDs is within the ccNSO
>>> purview :o)
>>> 
>>> Planned topics and speakers are currently as follows:
>>> SOPA & ACTA overview Becky Burr, ccNSO Council Member
>>> Internet Government Control in Latin America, Alejandro Pisanty and
>>> Oscar Robles ( .MX)
>>> HADOPI 2 and other French legislation initiatives Mathieu Weill, .fr
>>> China, Law Enforcement and DNS Filtering Hong Xue, ccNSO Council Member
>>> Internet government control in South Korea .kr (speaker TBC)
>