Dear Bill;

   Thank you very much for updating. I hope I have a chance to participate in this event. I hope to send me more information about, who to participate in this conference. I need to contribute in the conference process as one of the panelist and speaker. Also the theme of the meeting, the hot issue, etc ..

   Thanks

Hago Dafalla

System Administrator and Network Manager

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

University of Gezira

Wad Medani, Sudan

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On Friday, 27 December 2013, 11:17, Patrik Fältström <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I am, like probably many of us, trying to have some time off over the holidays...but just wait ;-)

   Patrik

On 27 dec 2013, at 09:10, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Sure Patrik, but I’m not letting you off that easy…wasn’t just letting you know, I was soliciting your input!

Bill

On Dec 26, 2013, at 7:07 PM, Patrik Fältström <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks for letting us know these things this long in advance Bill!

  Patrik

On 26 dec 2013, at 15:08, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi

As I’m told some people are already beginning their travel planning for Singapore, I’d like to suggest that anyone interested in IG consider flying in a day early, on Thursday 20th.  I've just received confirmation that NCUC has space reserved to hold an one-day conference at the venue on Friday 21 March.  The working title is, "ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to Sao Paulo, and Beyond.”  The precise details will be worked out early next year, but for now I can say the following.

In terms of the substantive focus, there will be sessions devoted to the major foci of the April meeting in Sao Paulo.  The Local Organizing Committee recently described these as

- Official launching of a review process of the global IG frameworks/models;

- Development of a set of universally acceptable core of principles for
global IG;

- Tentative draft of a global IG model.

which sounds a bit ambitious, and will presumably be refined in the months ahead.  However the SP agenda is ultimately specified, we may want to do sessions in Singapore on topics like a potential declaration on global IG principles, and options for evolving the distributed institutional architecture (consistent with the I* Montevideo Declaration) with respect to globalization, coordination, transparency/accountability/inclusive participation, and the role (inter)governmental frameworks and authority.  We might also want to consider the progress and implications of some of the contextual developments, like the 1net and strategy panel initiatives, the growing need to support and enhance the IGF, etc.

In terms of format, given the keen interest and varying views generated by the SP meeting and related developments, we’d like to make this event as much of a “cross-community” dialogue as is possible (in a room that accommodates up to 150 people).  So we will be reaching across silos to other stakeholders for panelists, as well as participants.  In addition, if either this CWG or any of the individual SOs, ACs, or sub-groups therein would be interested in providing written inputs (stuff being done either for other venues, or specially for this one) as background and conversational fodder, we could post these on the conference website.  If people are feeling ambitious, we could even set up online discussion spaces for the respective sessions and themes…all depends on the level of interest.

By way of background FYI, NCUC previously held conferences on IG in San Francisco http://www.amiando.com/ncucaticann.html and Toronto http://www.amiando.com/NCUC-ICANN45.html.

I hope this will prove to be of some interest to the wider community.  More to come….

Cheers,

Bill