<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv5550315097"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480988135876_31546"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480988135876_31545"><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480864618223_35023">Thank you Sivasubarmanian for your detailed clarification!</div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480864618223_35023" dir="ltr">As for my opinion about "Global Public Interest" term, this is what I think according to my very limited knowledge as I noted previously my newly involvement in ICANN and I also put a question or 2 to the strategy panel regarding that. I'll reach them with my questions later if I'm still interested.</div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480864618223_35023"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480864618223_35023">Best,</div><div></div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480864618223_35088"> </div><div class="yiv5550315097signature" id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480864618223_35140"><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15300" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15299" style="color:rgb(76, 118, 162);font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Amal Al-saqqaf</span></div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15300" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15256" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15264" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"></span><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15268" style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;">LinkedIn: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amalalsaqqaf">https://www.linkedin.com/in/</a></span><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amalalsaqqaf">amalalsaqqaf</a></span></div></div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15270" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Twitter: @Amal_Alsaqqaf</span></div><div id="yiv5550315097yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15270" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br clear="none"></div></div> <div class="yiv5550315097qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv5550315097yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv5550315097yqt0000744184" id="yiv5550315097yqtfd10216"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, November 26, 2016 8:52 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv5550315097y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5550315097"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Dear Amal Ramzi,</div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">No apology needed here, your message as a write up of your own opinion is quite analytical and expressive. It fact it was somewhat balanced too.</font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">In parts, you have summarized views expressed in the panel as in the GAC paragraph, while most of the contents under various sub headings were your views. Also, the last section of your message began with "To sum it up". </font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">I was uncomfortable with what you had said in the section "Global Pubic Interest Vs Public Interest" wherein you said "I think ICANN shouldn’t adopt this term [global] ‘cause to my limited knowledge, ICANN is not responsible on and accountable to the global public interest."</font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">However strongly I feel against this opinion, your overall message actually deserves the kind of encouragement that Wolf's message expresses. My response was actually a reaction to parts of what I read, and this not usual of this mailing list. It ought to have been dispassionate and I should have addressed the points I disagreed with.</font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Thank you.</font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sivasubramanian M</font></div></div></div><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5550315097yqt9121529291" id="yiv5550315097yqt08922"><div class="yiv5550315097gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Amal Ramzi <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:amalramzi88@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:amalramzi88@yahoo.com">amalramzi88@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5550315097gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32279"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32278">And apologies again for any misunderstanding .. my message is not a summary of any session or anyone's speech or comment or intervention. My message only expresses my own opinion.</span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32279"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32279"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32568">Thank you , </span></div><span class="yiv5550315097"></span><div></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32271"> </div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866signature" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_32257"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15300" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15299" style="color:rgb(76,118,162);font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Amal Al-saqqaf</span></div><div 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style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, November 25, 2016 6:42 PM, Amal Ramzi <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:amalramzi88@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:amalramzi88@yahoo.com">amalramzi88@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28271" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Dear Sivasubramanian,</span><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><font id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28542" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2">I'm not sure if I understood your email right, but to clarify that what I shared is my own comments and questions that they I had after attending those sessions, and what you named "conclusions" , I didn't mean them to look like conclusions but they're my own opinion about what the next steps and discussion might be discussed regarding public interest in ICANN. </font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><font id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28822" color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2">Maybe I didn't have to send my message as a reply to Ergys' first message titled "Materials from Public Interest Session". Sorry for that by mistake I sent my message under the discussion of the materials from public interest sessions while I meant to send it to the general mailing list of the public interest. If my message still doesn't relate to the general discussion of public interest in ICANN, then I'm sorry for my misunderstanding .</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28179"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2">Best,</font></div><div></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28181">Amal Al-saqqaf</div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121signature" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1480087540747_28183"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15300" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><br 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serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yqt8412106211" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yqtfd99574"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, November 25, 2016 12:15 PM, Sivasubramanian M <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Dear Amal Ramzi,</div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Neither the session "Exploring Pubic Interest" nor the first meeting of the At-Large public interest group revolved entirely around the opinions that you have shared, nor reached the conclusions as inferred from your summary.</div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">The transcript of the main session is at page <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://schd.ws/hosted_files/icann572016/91/I57%20HYD_Sun06Nov2016-Exploring%20Public%20Interest-en.pdf">http://schd.ws/hosted_files/ icann572016/91/I57%20HYD_ Sun06Nov2016-Exploring% 20Public%20Interest-en.pdf</a></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">and the </div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">At Large Pubic Interest Working Group session is archived at page <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://participate.icann.org/p5wbsvi1lnd/">https://participate. icann.org/p5wbsvi1lnd/</a></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Thank you.</div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Sivasubramanian M</div></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Amal Ramzi via Public-Interest-WG <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:public-interest-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:public-interest-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org">public-interest-wg@atlarge- lists.icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yqt0636513347" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121yqt43243"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59096" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59239" style="font-family:Garamond, serif;">Dear all,</span><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59099" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59099" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59100">I attended the two sessions of
public interest in ICANN 57 meeting and I found them interesting. At-Large
Public Interest WG session was like a brain storming as it brought up to my mind many
questions and conflicted answers , maybe because it was my first
exposure to the topic of the public interest within ICANN’s remit besides the ongoing
discussions about this concept within ICANN specially after the transition and
the new ICANN bylaw. As we’ve been encouraged by prof. Wolf Ludwig and Olivier
to share our thoughts and ideas in this mailing lists, I just like to share
here my comments and questions on some of the discussion points, and to share
some of background on PI from my region.</span><span dir="RTL" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59101" lang="AR-SA"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59099" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59103" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;">-<span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59104" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;">
</span><span dir="LTR" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59105"></span><b id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59106"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59107">Public Interest from an Arab culture background:<u></u><u></u></span></b></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59109" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59110">To my knowledge, the public
interest concept from an Arab culture background, which is rooted to some
Islamic resources, is closer to public “good” more than “interest”. And it
means achieving benefit for community and avoiding its harm, where avoiding
harm is prioritized to achieving any benefit. This should be decided through tradeoff
or balancing between a group of interests where the decision is not necessary to
be the interest of majority nor the interest of individuals, but it can be decided
regarded the kind, the scope, and the sustainability of the good that’ll be
achieved by that decision in a long run. It’s also case by case decision and usually
doesn’t depend on a bottom-up or multistakeholder approach. With the ideal concept of “common good”, it
seems that it’s needed to be identified and judged by someone fair, wise, </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59111">farsighted,
inclusive , </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59112">& unbiased,
and these characteristics isn’t available in human beings . So, in our case talking
about public “interests” is more reasonable and measurable than public "good”,
and just required a good system or approach to have all interests’ or stakes
holders well heard and considered i.e. bottom-up multistakeholders model with
fairly balanced representation and fairly balanced weight of voices- by using
“fairly” I don’t mean “equally” for now .<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59109" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59114" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;">-<span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59115" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;">
</span><span dir="LTR" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59116"></span><b id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59117"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59118">Broad definition vs. restricted or tight one.<u></u><u></u></span></b></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59120" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59121">Regarding the definition of
Public Interest, usually it’s not defined , as many had said, specially in the
context of country management or governance, or has an elastic and vague
definition or description that makes it fits with any decision ‘cause PI is
determined for a particular case, in a particular community, in a certain
country, and in a certain time. So, it has to be broad although this broadness ‘causes
the loss of the public interest in a liable way. But for ICANN, I think coming
up with a definition is possible because of the clear </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59122">and finite </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59123">frame of ICANN mission and resources
that ICANN manages or accountable to. However, a very restricted definition won’t
work. Public interest should be defined through a set of measurable criteria that
guarantees as much procedural approach as possible in referring to public
interest for decision making but I believe that also some of the required
criteria aren’t possible to be exactly specified and so at the end , PI definition
or criteria will inevitably have a kind of broadness. The only way to guarantee
the best possible public interest consideration within ICANN’s remit is to enhance
the representation of the different interests in the multistakeholder model and
to amend it if needed. <u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59125" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59126">As for the definition suggested
by the strategy panel, “, I think it’s very broad as if it defines
the global internet-related public interest in general, and to my knowledge I
don’t think that it falls under ICANN remit. A question to the strategy panel:
does ICANN able or accountable to “</span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59127" style="font-family:Garamond, serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><i id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_68692">Ensure that the Internet becomes, and continues
to be, stable, inclusive, and accessible across the globe so that all may enjoy
the benefits of a single and open Internet.</i> “ where it’s mission is to: “coordinate, at the
overall level, the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers, and in
particular to ensure the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique
identifier systems.</span> “<u></u><u></u></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59125" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59129" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;">-<span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59130" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;">
</span><span dir="LTR" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59131"></span><b id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59132"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59133">Global public interest vs. public interest<u></u><u></u></span></b></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59135" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59136">As for the “global public interest”,
what is meant by “global”? is it in terms of geographical scope? Or interests
scope, or internet scope? I think ICANN shouldn’t
adopt this term ‘cause to my limited knowledge, ICANN is not responsible on and
accountable to the global public interest. Global Public Interest might be a
responsibility of a UN internet-related entity , which can reach an
international agreement or law and enforce it even partially, but also in this
case it’ll not serve the global public interest because at the end of the day
UN is making agreements only with governments and again in my opinion
governments are not authorized for
defending public interest alone although they should “in ideal case”. In short,
although theinternet is global but it’s difficult to talk about the global
public interest as long as there’s no global law or treaty that regulate
internet users’ interests.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59138" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59139"> </span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59140" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;">-<span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59141" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;">
</span><span dir="LTR" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59142"></span><b id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59143"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59144">Governments, GAC, & public interest</span></b></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59140" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59147" style="font-family:Garamond, serif;">Although
governments and governmental bodies in each country have been always using
public interest concept as a justification or explanation of their decisions and
policies, I think it shouldn’t be the same in ICANN, and GAC shouldn’t be the
voice of the public interest. Thomas Schneider’s example at the session of “exploring-the-public- interest-within-ICANN’s-remit”
was a good example that illustrates how PI in politics or country governance
and management issues is a “point of view”, and how it can be changed and
influenced by many variants ,factors, and intervened interests , and it also </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59148" style="font-family:Garamond, serif;">confirms that
governments are not the good delegate to adopt public interest even if they are
the only authorized entities to do so in their countries, but in ICANN there’s
no need to make them in that position too, specially that GAC voice may also serve
implicitly many stakeholders interests like when the governments are also the only
ISP in a country and controlling the DNS-business sector too. </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59149" style="font-family:Garamond, serif;">PI should be represented by the
multistakeholders with enhancing the representation and the consideration of
independent users and civil society and non-commercial community, so </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59150" style="font-family:Garamond, serif;">At-Large
community & NCSG have to have the louder voice on identifying PI criteria
within ICANN.</span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59140" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span style="font-family:Garamond, serif;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59140" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span style="font-family:Garamond, serif;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59153"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59154">To sum up, I
think ICANN’s mission & structure is already based on the public interest ,and
ICANN responsibility activities supporting the PI by empowering the community
with different views to be engaged in policy development. What is needed now ,besides
continuing the engagement of different stakeholders from diverse backgrounds
and origins, is a review or an evaluation
and enhancement of the ICANN multistakeholder model or structure to improve
ICANN accountability towards the public interest through: <u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59156" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59157">1-<span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59158" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59159"></span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59160">Having a
measureable criteria under PI term used
in level of ICANN board decision making , either by the board themselves with
monitoring from PI entity inside DPRD , or by and independent PI entity. And I think these criteria will
intersect ,if not </span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59161">matching, the ICANN
accountability and transparency criteria.</span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59162"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59164" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59165">2-<span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59166" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span><span dir="LTR" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59167"></span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59168">Having a mechanism
of making sure that in each PDP , there’re all voices from all interests by PI
liaisons to make sure that any proposed
policy or issue reaches the board
is already subjective to PI environment and criteria. <u></u><u></u></span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58933">
</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59170" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:kashida;"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59171"> </span></div><div></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938"> Sorry for my long email. </div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938">Best Regards,</div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938">Amal Al-saqqaf<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938">ICANN fellow<br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938">ISOC-Yemen ALS, APRALO, At-Large</div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_58938"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_68961" style="color:rgb(31,73,125);">LinkedIn: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_68960" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amalalsaqqaf">https://www.linkedin.com/in/</a></span><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_69090" style="color:rgb(31,73,125);"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_69089" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amalalsaqqaf">am alalsaqqaf</a></span><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557signature" id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_59172"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15270" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1480001574761_68963" style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Twitter: @Amal_Alsaqqaf</span></div><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yui_3_16_0_1_1451739013985_15270" style="font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><br clear="none"></div></div> <div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 7:19 PM, Ergys Ramaj <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ergys.ramaj@icann.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:ergys.ramaj@icann.org">ergys.ramaj@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yiv4781863986">
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<div><font face="Arial">Dear all, </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">For those of you who may have missed the session, the recordings and scribe can be found here: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://icann572016.sched.org/event/8cyd/exploring-the-public-interest-within-icanns-remit">https://icann572016. sched.org/event/8cyd/ exploring-the-public-interest- within-icanns-remit</a> </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Best, </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Ergys </font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Date: </span>Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 5:05 AM<br clear="none">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject: </span>Re: Public Interest Confirmed as High-Interest Topic Session for ICANN57<br clear="none">
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;"><font face="Arial">This is to confirm that the High-Interest Topic session on
<b><i>Exploring the Public Interest Within ICANN’s Remit</i></b> will take place tomorrow, Sunday, 6 November 2016 from 15:15 – 16:45 in Hall 3 (Main). </font></div>
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<div><b><font face="Arial">15:15 – 15:20<span class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yiv4781863986Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></span></font></b></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><i>Setting the Scene</i>, Olivier Crepin-Leblond, EURALO Chair</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>15:20 – 15:40</b><span class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yiv4781863986Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><i>Historical & Political Nuances of the Concept of the Global Public Interest: Examples from Europe & India</i>, Wolf Ludwig, EURALO & Rajesh Chharia, ISPAI</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>15:40 – 16:10</b><span class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yiv4781863986Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><i>Reaching a Shared Understanding: The Concept of the Public Interest at ICANN and its Application</i>, Jonathan Robinson, GNSO & Becky Burr, GNSO</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>16:10 – 16:20</b><span class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yiv4781863986Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><i>Explore How Public Interest Could be Operationalized as the Basis for Decision-making at ICANN</i>, Thomas Schneider, GAC </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>16:40 – 16:45</b><span class="yiv5550315097m_-4558462731228246866yiv8891628121m_-8318350180808456557yiv4781863986Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><i>Next Steps</i>, Olivier Crepin-Leblond</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">We welcome everyone’s participation and look forward to a constructive discussion. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">For more information, please see: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://icann572016.sched.org/event/8cyd/exploring-the-public-interest-within-icanns-remit">https://icann572016. sched.org/event/8cyd/ exploring-the-public-interest- within-icanns-remit</a> </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Best, </font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Date: </span>Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 11:25 AM<br clear="none">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject: </span>Public Interest Confirmed as High-Interest Topic Session for ICANN57<br clear="none">
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-size:13px;">This is to inform you that Public Interest is now confirmed as one of the High-Interest Topic sessions for ICANN57. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-size:13px;">Attached is the draft block schedule, which is subject to change as sessions are likely to be shuffled further in order to avoid conflicts. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-size:13px;">The public interest session will be 90 minutes long, and is
<b><i>tentatively</i></b> scheduled to take place on Sunday, 6 November, from 15:15 - 16:45.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-size:13px;">Additional information on the session can be found below, with more to come in the coming days and weeks. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="font-size:13px;">Best, </font></div>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">Session Leader(s):</strong> Sally Costerton <br clear="none">
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the concept of the public interest within ICANN’s remit been a topic of discussion for many years. In 2013-2014, the Strategy Panel on Public Responsibility Framework explored this topic and, in consultations with the community, proposed the following definition
for the global public interest in relation to the Internet: "ensuring that the Internet becomes, and continues to be, stable, inclusive, and accessible across the globe so that all may enjoy the benefits of a single and open Internet. In addressing its public
responsibility, ICANN must build trust in the Internet and its governance ecosystem." While this definition has been well received, there is a desire to revisit. A high interest session took place at ICANN55, which helped build on previous discussions, but
did not lead to concrete recommendations for next steps. Following ICANN55, the At-Large Advisory Committee created a Working Group to further explore the concept of the public interest. As the organization readies for significant changes in its governance
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1. Further understand the historical and political nuances of the ‘global public interest’ in various contexts and regions</div>
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2. Reach a shared understanding of what the concept of public interest means in the context of ICANN</div>
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3. Explore how public interest could be operationalized as the basis for decision-making at ICANN</div>
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Strategy Panel on Public Responsibility Framework report: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/1zEdR1D" style="color:rgb(4,123,193);text-decoration:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(223,83,83);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">http://bit.ly/1zEdR1D</a></li><li style="line-height:20px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">
ICANN55 high interest session materials: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/2b3ym1R" style="color:rgb(4,123,193);text-decoration:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(223,83,83);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">http://bit.ly/ 2b3ym1R</a></li><li style="line-height:20px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">
Wikispace: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/icannPI" style="color:rgb(4,123,193);text-decoration:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(223,83,83);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">http://bit.ly/ icannPI</a></li><li style="line-height:20px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">
Mailing list: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:publicinterest@icann.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:publicinterest@icann.org">publicinterest@icann.org</a> </li></ul>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;">Session Format:</strong> A panel comprised
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