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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">PLEASE EMAIL STAFF IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE OR REGISTER AT:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">ANNOUNCEMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">:
<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-02-08-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-02-08-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ANUNCIO</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">:
<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-02-22-es">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2018-02-22-es</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Policy Development Support Team is pleased to announce two sessions for an upcoming webinar:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Pre-ICANN61 Policy Open House<br>
Thursday, 1 March 2018<br>
10:00 and 19:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The webinar will run in English and will be conducted in Adobe Connect along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.
<b><span style="color:red">Live interpretation in Spanish and French will be provided.</span></b> Recordings of the sessions will be made available <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/presentations-2012-08-27-en">here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In this interactive 60-minute open house, the focus will be an active question and answer session with the Policy Development Support Team. To ensure that your questions about policy activities are addressed
during the session, the Policy Team invites you to submit your questions through the <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/dVbmhQOT8sakSsmg2">registration form</a> or email them to <a href="mailto:policyinfo@icann.org">policyinfo@icann.org</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To assist with your preparation for this webinar and for ICANN61, the "<a href="http://go.icann.org/pre61">Pre-ICANN61 Policy Report</a>" and "Generic Names Supporting Organization Policy Briefing: ICANN61
Edition" will be published by Monday, 26 February 2018. Please be sure to download and review these materials beforehand for helpful background on policy activities and topics that the Policy Development Support Team will discuss during the open house, such
as:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">An overview of the cross-community discussions that will take place at ICANN61:</span><o:p></o:p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): WHOIS Compliance Models</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A Walk in the Shoes of a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Registry Operator</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Name Collisions</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Open Data at ICANN</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Policy development processes underway in the Country Code Names Supporting Organization(ccNSO), the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) and the Address Supporting
Organization (ASO):</span><o:p></o:p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Retirement of Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Next-Generation Registration Directory Service to Replace WHOIS</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">International Governmental Organizations and International Non-Governmental Organizations Access to Curative Rights Dispute Resolution Mechanisms</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Protections for Red Cross National Society Names in the Domain Name System</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">New gTLD Subsequent Procedures</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regional Internet Registry policy development activities</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Advisory Committee activities within the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC)
and Security & Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC):</span><o:p></o:p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organizational Review of the At-Large community</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At-Large Summit (ATLAS) III</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">GAC discussion on the .amazon Independent Review Process</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">GAC discussion on evolving relationships with ICANN Board and ICANN Org</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RSSAC statement on entries in DNS Root Sources</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RSSAC & SSAC Response to the GNSO's New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group on Root Scaling</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SSAC Response to the ICANN Internationalized Domain Name Guidelines Working Group</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SSAC work concerning the use of emoji in domain names</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Other topics of note:</span><o:p></o:p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organizational Review of the ASO</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ccNSO Rejection Action Procedure as a Decisional Participant in the ICANN Empowered Community</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Impact of ICANN's Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on ccTLDs</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
</li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Policy Development Support Team looks forward to helping the ICANN community prepare for ICANN61!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ICANN Policy Staff in support of the At-Large Community<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://atlarge.icann.org/">atlarge.icann.org</a> <br>
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