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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.icann.org/images/gradlogo_bow.jpg" alt=ICANN></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>News Alert<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04feb11-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04feb11-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:15.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pre-San Francisco ICANN Policy Update Webinar Invitation<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4 February 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (<a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a>) to receive the call details.</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Whether you plan to participate in the upcoming ICANN meeting in San Francisco remotely or in person, you're invited to a quick reminder of the background and current status of each major policy issue currently under discussion in ICANN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The ICANN Policy Staff will provide a briefing on <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thursday 3 March at 13.00 and 20.00 UTC</span></strong>, summarizing policy issues across the different ICANN Supporting Organizations, namely the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) and Address Supporting Organization (ASO). Amongst other topics, updates will be provided on:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Registration Abuse Policies Recommendations (GNSO)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New gTLD Recommendation 6 WG <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (GNSO)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Recent WHOIS work<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Country names study group (ccNSO)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Delegation and Re-delegation Working Group (ccNSO)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Global policy for handling recovered IPv4 address space (ASO)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each session, scheduled to run for 90 minutes, will be conducted in English only. The meeting will be run in Adobe Connect with a slide presentation along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Participants will have opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you are not able to participate in either of the live sessions, the slides and MP3 will be made available shortly after the meeting. The policy staff is always available to answer any questions that you email to <a href="mailto:policy-staff@icann.org">policy-staff@icann.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (<a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a>) to receive the call details. Please indicate which call you would like to join, 13.00 UTC or 20.00 UTC (to convert those times into your local time, see: <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html</a>). We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with log-in and dial-in details. 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