Dear all, Could you please help monitor one of the new TLD case, that is, .THAI ? There has been becoming a bit political issue in my country. It is too bad for me that I don't have anyone to fund the trip to this meeting. :( I will follow up all you guys reports. Have a great trip to China. Poomjit Sirawongprasert (Moui) ภูมิจิต ศิระวงศ์ประเสริฐ (หมวย) twitter: @Moui <http://twitter.com/moui> facebook: PoomjitS <http://facebook.com/PoomjitS> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:54 PM, William Drake <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hello > > We (particularly Tapani) have updating and improving the NCUC member data > base in order, inter alia, to allow us to launch a new members listserv. > But there's still a wee bit more to do before we're there, so for now I > have to provide a little constituency info here on the SG list. (FWIW, it > seems we now have somewhere in the area of 87 organizational & 192 > individual members in 69 countries.) > > NCUC's *Constituency Day meeting *will be held from 9:00 - 12:30 Beijing > time (UTC/GMT +8 hours) on Tuesday 9 April. A draft agenda is accessible > from > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Beijing+Meeting+2013-04-09. > We will have a lot to talk about. Most substantive policy discussions > related to the GNSO Council meeting etc. will take place in the NCSG PC and > NCSG Constituency Day meetings, about which Robin will be sharing info > shortly. So in the NCUC meeting, we will be devoting a majority of our > time to our new constituency building efforts, e.g. revamping our > electronic platforms and bylaws, as well as our policy conference > programming activities, finances, inreach/outreach plans, etc. The bylaws > discussion will also provide an opportunity to consider some larger > questions about NCUC's mission and activities going forward. We hope folks > will decide to join us; staff will post the remote participation > information (Adobe Connect link and telephone bridge) at the > http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37083 after the holidays. > > In addition, NCUC is organizing a two hour policy workshop from > 13:00-15:00 Beijing time (UTC/GMT +8 hours) on Wednesday 10 April. The > theme of the meeting is, *One World, One Internet? New gTLDs & > Competition in A Changing Global Environment,* and we will have panels on > integration vs. fragmentation of the Internet, and on Chinese and Western > perspectives on new gTLDs, competition and regulation. Among the speakers > will be five people from China, and we expect to lively discussions. We'll > also do a bit of "warm up" discussion about the panel themes at > the Constituency Day meeting. The program is also accessible from > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Beijing+Meeting+2013-04-09, > and staff will post the remote participation information (Adobe Connect > link and telephone bridge) at http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37165 after > the holidays. > > We hope to see you in or from Beijing next week. > > Cheers, > > Bill > > > > *************************************************** > William J. Drake > International Fellow & Lecturer > Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ > University of Zurich, Switzerland > www.williamdrake.org > Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, > ICANN, www.ncuc.org > [log in to unmask] > **************************************************** > >