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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Dear all,</div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">If you have not yet filled in the Doodle Poll - </font><a href="http://doodle.com/e546t3ytzhhb3qtz" style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; text-indent: -24px; ">http://doodle.com/e546t3ytzhhb3qtz</a><span style="text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 16px;"> – please do so by close of business today. The poll will be closed tomorrow and the current 'frontrunner' is Thursdays 14.00 UTC.</span></font></span></div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><span style="text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Many thanks and best wishes,</span></font></span></div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Lars</span></font></div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><span style="line-height: 16px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: -24px; "><span style="line-height: 16px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div></blockquote><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Lars Hoffmann <<a href="mailto:lars.hoffmann@icann.org">lars.hoffmann@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, December 9, 2013 5:32 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org">gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org">gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> First meeting Doodle, PLEASE REPLY<br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear all,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thank you for signing up as volunteers to the Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP Working Group. P<b>lease fill in this doodle poll<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>to facilitate finding a suitable weekly meeting time: <a href="http://doodle.com/e546t3ytzhhb3qtz" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 16px; text-indent: -24px; ">http://doodle.com/e546t3ytzhhb3qtz</a><span style="line-height: 16px; text-indent: -24px; "> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Moreover, this PDP has been tasked by the GNSO Council to <span style="line-height: 16px; "><span style="line-height: 16px; ">Group to address issues related to the potential need to translate and/or transliterate contact information data. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">As part of its deliberations on this issue, Charter stipulates several questions for the PDP WG to consider, including (but not limited to):</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-indent: -0.25in; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; "><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; "></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; line-height: 18px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="line-height: 18px; "><font face="Calibri" size="3">Whether it is desirable to translate contact information to a single common language or transliterate contact information to a single common script.<o:p></o:p></font></span><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; "></ul></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; line-height: 18px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="line-height: 16px; ">Who should decide who should bear the burden translating contact information to a single common language or transliterating contact information to a single common script.</span> </font></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; background-color: white; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16px; ">For more detailed, consult the WG's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; background-color: white; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 16px; "><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/transliteration-contact-charter-06nov13-en.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Charter</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">In preparation for the first meeting, please take a moment to review the relevant background documents, including the </span><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/transliteration-contact-charter-06nov13-en.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px; text-indent: -24px; ">Charter</a>, which have been posted on the WG workspace <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/FTR-Ag" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://community.icann.org/x/FTR-Ag</a>.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><br></p></div></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; "><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Staff will start this first session with an introductory presentation on the issue of Translation and Transliteration and also provide some other useful background on the GNSO Policy Development Process. In addition, a nomination of a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Working Group Chair or co-Chairs</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is expected to take place during the first meeting, volunteers are encouraged to express interest ahead or even during the meeting.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3">We'll be using Adobe Connect to facilitate the meeting. For those of you using Adobe Connect for the first time, please find a short introduction video here: <a href="https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/participatemeeting/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 233); ">https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/participatemeeting/</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3">If you have any comments or questions, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3">With best regards,<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3"> </font></span></p></blockquote></div></div></span></body></html>