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




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