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Dear All,Please join in today's NCSG Open Membership Meeting!9 April 2013 - NCSG Open Membership Meeting at ICANN #46 in Beijing, ChinaRemote Participation:* Adobe Connect with audio streaming:* Telephone Dial-in Numbers:Passcode: NCSG13:30 - 15:30 (Beijing local = UTC/GMT +8 hours)Room: Function 9Discussion Agenda1. 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 WhoisBackground: ICANN Wiki on Expert Working Group3. ICANN Outreach and Engagement Efforts [ 14:15 ]- Visit from Sally Costerton, ICANN staff member responsible for outreach and stakeholder engagement4. 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 ATRT2Note: NCSG moves to Grand Hall A at 15:30 for NCSG's meeting with the ICANN Board of DirectorsThis agenda lives at:IP JUSTICERobin Gross, Executive Director1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USAp: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451