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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What Do You
Want to Ask in Mexico City?</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">11
February 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In a little over two weeks,
ICANN's 34th international public meeting will take place in Mexico City. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An intrinsic part of every
ICANN meeting is the ability of the community to ask questions and make
comments in a public setting. In Mexico City, we will have two main public
forums, as well as numerous other open-microphone periods during specific
meetings. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first main public forum
will be on the opening day of the conference, Monday 2 March, and will be
specifically dedicated to questions covering the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
and the process for creating new generic top-level domains. It will run for 90
minutes, starting at 11.00 in the main conference room. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The second main public forum
will be on Thursday 5 March. It will run for three hours, with a half-hour
break, starting at 10.00 in the main conference room. The forum will be open to
any topic relevant to ICANN and its work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To allow community members
that are not able to physically attend, to account for those attendees that do
not wish to speak into a public microphone, and to ensure that everyone has an
opportunity to ask a question directly of ICANN staff and/or the ICANN Board,
we have set up an online question box. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That question box is online
now and you can find it at: <a href="http://icann.wufoo.com/forms/mexico-city-question-box/">http://icann.wufoo.com/forms/mexico-city-question-box/
</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The box should be straightforward
to use and you will receive a receipt of your question. Those
questions/comments will then be compiled and introduced at each session where
the expectation is that as many of them as possible will be answered (and the
responses captured by the meeting transcript). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the event that time runs
short, a response will be produced in the weeks following the meeting that will
provide answers to unasked questions. That response will be sent to the email
address supplied when you use the form. There is no limit to the number of
questions you are able to ask. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More on the public forum
itself </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Thursday public forum
will enable the community to ask questions in one of three ways: </span></p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You can
use the above form before 17.00 local time Wednesday 4 March to submit
your question. These questions will be compiled and provided to ICANN's
chairman for introduction into the meeting itself. Or: </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You can
queue up behind a microphone placed at the front of the room and wait your
turn in line to ask the Board your question directly and in person. Or: </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You can
queue up at the back of the main conference room during the forum and
provide an ICANN staffer, who will be at a desk with a computer, your
questions (as well as your contact details) and they will note down your
question and provide it to the chair. </span></li></ol>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN's chairman, Peter
Dengate Thrush, will be moderating the forum and will be in charge of
introducing topics and questions, as well as asking for Board members and/or
other audience members to respond to any particular topics that arise.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We hope that the community
takes advantage of this open and transparent system to provide questions and in
so doing allow for additional accountability of ICANN, its staff and its Board.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For those attending, we look
forward to seeing you in Mexico City; for those unable to attend, we hope this
system will provide you with an effective system for remote participation. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Related link: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Mexico City question box:
<a href="http://icann.wufoo.com/forms/mexico-city-question-box/">http://icann.wufoo.com/forms/mexico-city-question-box/</a>
</span></p>