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<div>Is there webcasting for any of these?</div>
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<div>Subject: [bc-gnso] RE: ICANN Week in DC<br />From: "Phil Corwin" <psc@vlaw-dc.com><br />Date: 3/30/14 7:15 pm<br />To: "bc-gnso@icann.org" <bc-gnso@icann.org><br /><br /> <!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">My jet lagged self switched the hearings dates and times … correct data now at <a href="http://www.internetcommerce.org/ICANN_Week_DC">http://www.internetcommerce.org/ICANN_Week_DC</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Phil Corwin <br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:47 PM<br /> <strong>To:</strong> bc-gnso@icann.org<br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> FW: ICANN Week in DC<br /> <strong>Importance:</strong> High</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">Great to see all of you who were in Singapore/hope you all made it home safe and sound.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.internetcommerce.org/ICANN_Week_DC">http://www.internetcommerce.org/ICANN_Week_DC</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DC Trains Laser Focus on ICANN. IANA, and NTIA – ICA Counsel to Speak On U.S Role in Internet Governance</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The calm is over, and the storm may be about to begin. Congress is back from recess and not one but two Congressional Committees are about to hone in on the implications of the NTIA’s March 14<sup>th</sup> announcement of its intention to surrender its IANA functions contract counterparty status with ICANN by September 2015. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Meantime, an exhausting ICANN meeting has just concluded in Singapore, at which much more was learned about the import of that decision and the complexities of implementing it (more on that in a separate post-jetlag post). Everything ICANN-related, including the Internet governance status of business in general and domainers in particular, is up for grabs and at risk for at least the next eighteen months.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This is ICANN week in Washington. Besides those two Hill hearings, two major think tanks are also holding ICANN-related programs. </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Here’s the lineup:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">First, on Wednesday, April 2, the </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN">Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee will explore the question of “<a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=027833A0-0028-42E2-A14B-B9C8BA2576A6">Should the Department of Commerce Relinquish Direct Oversight Over ICANN?</a>” at 10 am Eastern Time. While the witness list is not yet available, the Subcommittee is likely to focus on whether NTIA has the legal power to make this decision absent Congressional authorization -- and the potential fallout for Internet free speech and trademark and copyright protection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN">The following day, the Communications and Telecommunications Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internet"> “<span lang="EN-US">Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet”</span></a> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. This is the Subcommittee with direct NTIA oversight, and the hearing may be contentious. The star-studded witness list consists of:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Honorable Larry Strickling<br /> Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Administration<br /> National Telecommunications and Information Administration<br /> U.S. Department of Commerce</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><br /> <br /> The Honorable David A. Gross<br /> Partner<br /> Wiley Rein, LLP<br /> <br /> <strong>Mr. Fadi Chehadé<br /> President and CEO<br /> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers<br /> </strong> <br /> Mr. Steve DelBianco<br /> Executive Director<br /> NetChoice<br /> <br /> Ms. Carolina Rossini<br /> Project Director, Latin American Resource Center<br /> Internet Governance and Human Rights Program<br /> New American Foundation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Also on Thursday, the influential Information Technology and Innovation Foundation will hold a program on “</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN"><a href="http://www.itif.org/events/bully-or-bodyguard-assessing-proper-role-united-states-internet-governance">Bully or Bodyguard? Assessing the Proper Role of the United States in Internet Governance</a>”. ICA’s Counsel will be one of the presenters. The complete speaker’s list is:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN">Founding Principal, Virtualaw LLC (and ICA Counsel)</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN">Steve DelBianco </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN">Executive Director, NetChoice </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="EN">Eli Dourado </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all these events will be webcast live so that you can be an eyewitness to history.</span></p>
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