Dear All, Please join in today's NCSG Open Membership Meeting! 9 April 2013 - NCSG Open Membership Meeting at ICANN #46 in Beijing, China Remote Participation: * Adobe Connect with audio streaming: http://beijing46.icann.org/node/37105 * Telephone Dial-in Numbers: http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCSG_Passcodes.htm Passcode: NCSG 13:30 - 15:30 (Beijing local = UTC/GMT +8 hours) Room: Function 9 Discussion Agenda 1. Welcome and introductions from membership [ 13:30 ] 2. WHOIS Expert Working Group (aka "gtld Directory Services) [ 13:45 ] - Visit from Stephanie Perrin, member of ICANN's Expert Working Group on Whois Background: ICANN Wiki on Expert Working Group 3. ICANN Outreach and Engagement Efforts [ 14:15 ] - Visit from Sally Costerton, ICANN staff member responsible for outreach and stakeholder engagement 4. Open membership discussion on growing trend at ICANN to replace the bottom-up community-led policy development process with top-down staff unilateralism [ 14:45 ] 5. ICANN's Accountability Transparency Review Team (ATRT-2) [ 15:00 - 15:30 ] Visit from some members of ATRT-2. NCSG members can ask questions of team and provide input into team's work on ways ICANN can improve its accountability, transparency and reliability in carrying out its mission. Background: ICANN wiki on ATRT2 Note: NCSG moves to Grand Hall A at 15:30 for NCSG's meeting with the ICANN Board of Directors This agenda lives at: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCSG+Beijing +Meeting+2013-04-09 IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]