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 Begin forwarded message: > 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) >