<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><strong>Dear All,</strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>Please register via email to <a href="mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org">alice.jansen@icann.org</a> by Tuesday, 23 April – 23:59 UTC to receive the dial-in details.</strong> We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with login and dial-in details.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and <span style="color: black; ">Julia Charvolen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">E-mail: <a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><i>One World, One Internet</i></p><p style="font-size: small; font-family: arial; "></p></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><br></div><div style=""><title>ICANN News Alert</title><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="icann, internet, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, iana" name="keywords"><meta content="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" name="description"><div style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><div style="width:758px; padding:10px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">Webinar: WHOIS Policy Review Team Recommendations - Implementation Update</h2>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">16 April 2013</p>
<p><em>Join ICANN Staff for an update on ICANN's ongoing and planned activities to fully enforce the existing WHOIS policy for generic top-level domains.</em></p><h3>Webinar Details</h3><p><strong>Date</strong>: Wednesday, 24 April<br>
<strong>Time</strong>: 15:00-16:30 UTC<br>
<strong>Adobe Connect</strong>: <a href="http://icann.adobeconnect.com/whois/">http://icann.adobeconnect.com/whois/</a></p><p>You are invited to an update on ICANN's ongoing and planned activities to fully enforce the existing WHOIS policy and contractual conditions for gTLDs. These activities address ICANN's obligations to support access to accurate gTLD WHOIS data and are consistent with objectives included in the WHOIS Policy Review Team's recommendations. ICANN Staff will walk you through, and respond to questions on, the following projects: WHOIS as a strategic priority; RAA amendments; data accuracy/access; compliance and automated tools; internationalized registration data; WHOIS information portal; and outreach and communication efforts. Staff also will provide an overview of the efforts undertaken by the Expert Working Group to develop a proposed blueprint for gTLD directory services.</p><p>Please join this webinar on <strong>Wednesday, 24 April at 15:00 UTC (duration 90 minutes).</strong> The meeting will be run in an Adobe Connect room with a slide presentation. The session will be conducted in English.</p><p>Participants will have the opportunity to offer comments and ask questions during the Q&A section. During the course of the webinar, these may be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you cannot join the live session, the recording of the session will be made available shortly after the meeting.</p><p><strong>Please register via email to <a href="mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org">alice.jansen@icann.org</a> by Tuesday, 23 April – 23:59 UTC to receive the dial-in details.</strong> We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with login and dial-in details.</p><p><u>Background documents:</u></p><ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.icann.org/2013/03/whois-whats-to-come/">Blog post on <em>WHOIS & What's to Come</em></a></li>
<li><em>WHOIS policies and <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/whois-policies-provisions">provisions</a></em></li>
<li><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/prelim-report-08nov12-en.htm">Board Resolution on WHOIS Policy Review Team Recommendations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/whois/final-report-11may12-en.pdf">WHOIS Policy Review Team Recommendations</a> [PDF, 1.44 MB]</li></ul>
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