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background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">News Alert<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h2><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-17-en" class="" style="color: purple;">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-17-en</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 15pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><hr size="3" width="100%" align="center" class=""></span></div><h2 class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pre-ICANN 54 Policy Update Webinar<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h2><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">17 September 2015<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="floatcenter" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please RSVP via <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZHUBa1JuAvqy_gerUKG2MqILBxSldQ3j1D6BxrQT3is/viewform?c=0&w=1" class="" style="color: purple;">this form</a> by 2 October 2015.</span></strong><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""><strong class="">Remote participation details will be sent the week of 5 October 2015.</strong></span></b><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The ICANN Policy Development Support Team will provide a Policy Update Webinar on Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC, summarizing policy activities across the ICANN policy development community and the ongoing Transition of Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions and the ICANN Accountability efforts.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Updates will also be provided on topics from ICANN's Support Organizations and Advisory Committees:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" class="" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Address Supporting Organization (ASO) and Regional Internet Registries (RIR) Activities<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO): New generic Top Level Domain subsequent procedures<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO): Data & Metrics for GNSO policy making<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO): Review of Rights Protection Mechanisms in all generic Top Level Domains<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO): Next Generation generic Top Level Domain Registration Directory Services to Replace WHOIS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO): Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Activity Update<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and Regional At-Large Organizations (RALO) Activities<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC): The work of the At-Large Structure (ALS) Criteria and Expectations Taskforce<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Government Advisory Committee's (GAC) High-Level Meeting (HLM) at ICANN 55 in Marrakech<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Government Advisory Committee's (GAC): The Protection of IGO Names and Acronyms<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) Activity Update<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Activity Update<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each session runs for 90 minutes and will be conducted in English. The webinar will be conducted in Adobe Connect along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function in Adobe Connect.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Recordings of the webinars will be made available <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/presentations-2012-08-27-en" class="" style="color: purple;">here</a>. The Policy Development Support Team is always available to answer any questions via email at <a href="mailto:policyinfo@icann.org" class="" style="color: purple;">policyinfo@icann.org</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="floatcenter" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please RSVP via <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZHUBa1JuAvqy_gerUKG2MqILBxSldQ3j1D6BxrQT3is/viewform?c=0&w=1" class="" style="color: purple;">this form</a> by 2 October 2015.</span></strong><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""><strong class="">Remote participation details will be sent the week of 5 October 2015.</strong></span></b><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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