All: I hope you all will join in next Tuesday's NCSG Open Meeting in Beijing. If you won't be in Beijing for ICANN #46, please join the discussion remotely. Draft agenda and remote participation details are below. We've got some great speakers coming to talk with us, so I hope you will join in the discussion. Thanks! Robin Tuesday, 9 April 2013 - NCSG Open Membership Meeting at ICANN #46 in Beijing, China 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 [ 13:45 ] - 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 with top-down ICANN staff unilateralism [ 14:45 ] 5. ICANN's Accountability Transparency Reliability 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 Remote Participation for NCSG Open Meeting: * 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 If you need a dial-out, please let me know 24 hours in advance so I can request the dial-out to you in time for the mtg. Thanks! ** The above agenda lives on the NCSG wiki here: 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]