<html><head><base href="data:"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Dear BC members</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">While we are tremendously busy @ICANN, there is also a lot going on in the Internet Eco System front that has implications for ICANN. Many of you attended, or participated in the workshops at ICANN on ICANN and the Internet Eco System. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">I saw this recently, and thought it might be a useful backgrounder and status update. The ITU Treaty conference begins on 1/3 and concludes essentially for negotiations on 1/14, with formal publication on 1/15. It is too complex and not useful to dwell on </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">the substance, however, as this topic has been of concern to many BC members, I am providing a link to a recent Forbes article. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">This is provided as a background document. I know that many of the BC companies, in their individual capacity, are actively attending or following the ITU WCIT. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">This posting is not to create a BC debate, but to inform other members that many of your colleagues in the BC are contributing to activities or initiatives that support ICANN's role and core mission.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Technically, the WCIT should not be about ICANN but certain states are proposing changes in the ITU Treaty on Telecommunications Regulations that have implications for the Internet. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">We have a tremendous number of hot items at ICANN, but during December, the world will be watching Dubai and this conference. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">If you want to post something on the BC list on this topic, please use a subject line of Internet Eco System/WCIT, so that members not interested, can ignore and focus on other ICANN related topics. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Marilyn Cade</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2012/11/26/un-agencys-leaked-playbook-panic-chaos-over-internet-treaty/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2012/11/26/un-agencys-leaked-playbook-panic-chaos-over-internet-treaty/</a><div><br></div><div><br><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>