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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08jun09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08jun09-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two-Week
Coundown to Sydney!</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">8
June 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN's 35th International
Public Meeting is just two weeks away. The conference will be held 21-26 June
2009 at the Hilton Sydney. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A full schedule for the
meeting, including a synopsis of each session being held throughout the week,
is available on the ICANN Sydney Meeting website at <a href="http://syd.icann.org/">http://syd.icann.org</a>. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Highlights </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two main issues will likely
dominate the conference: new generic Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs), and
Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs). Workshops on the status of the new gTLD
process, as well as the IDN Fast-Track process, will take place on Monday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A Joint AC/SO Meeting, in
which representatives from ICANN's constituent groups will be discussing the
roles and responsibilities of Advisory Committees, Supporting Organisations,
Policy Staff and Board Members in ICANN's processes, is also on Monday's agenda
. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other highlights include: the
ccNSO Tech Day (Monday); an Improving Institutional Confidence Workshop
(Wednesday); a forum on Abuse of the DNS (Thursday); and a public meeting of
the Board's Public Participation Committee (Wednesday). </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Social events </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two evenings of social events
are also written into the calendar. Monday night will see a cocktail reception
at the Hilton, followed by "restaurant night" on the waterfront in
Sydney where several restaurants will offer a special 20% discount to ICANN
Meeting attendees. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Wednesday, a Gala Event
will be held at Sydney's Overseas Passenger Terminal — where the world's luxury
liners dock — with a spectacular view across Sydney harbour to the famous Opera
House and Bridge. An after-party will be held at The Argyle bar. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Remote participation </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are you unable to attend in
person, but still wish to follow events online? You will find extensive remote
participation tools on the meeting website at <a href="http://syd.icann.org/">http://syd.icann.org</a>.
Most sessions will have live, multilingual audio streaming, web chat rooms, and
downloadable presentations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The main room and all ccNSO
events will be broadcast live using Adobe's Connect software, which allows you
to not only hear and see what is going on in the room but also see the
presentations, a real-time text transcript, and interact in a chatroom at the
same time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To access the interactive
room you just need to go to a given meeting's webpage and a single link will
launch it (please note: this system may not work with all Linux users). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For sessions outside those
two rooms, visit the session's specific webpage from the schedule and you will
be able to choose from listening to audio feeds in multiple languages, to
interacting in live web chatrooms and/or downloading speaker presentations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you wish to ask a question
in the public forum on Thursday, visit our online question box at <a href="http://syd.icann.org/public-forum">http://syd.icann.org/public-forum</a>.
</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">General information </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other information regarding
Sydney itself, including suggestions on things to do, travel and visa issues,
transportation, and tourist advice are all available on the Sydney meeting
website at <a href="http://syd.icann.org/">http://syd.icann.org</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We look forward to seeing you
there. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN Staff </span></p>