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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear advisors:</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Once again,
Telecommunities Canada is sponsoring an ICANN briefing here in
Ottawa. Date is May 30th -- 5-7pm EST. </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Here is the eventbrite page
with the agenda.</font> </p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/icann-65-marrakesh-briefing-tickets-60536750049">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/icann-65-marrakesh-briefing-tickets-60536750049</a><br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">There will be an
explanation of the multistakeholder system, some discussion of
privacy, data protection, geographical names at the top level
(e.g. who should own .amazon) and universal acceptance (e.g.
accepting, validating, storing, processing and displaying all
domain names consistently). These are all issues that, in their
resolution, will have some affect on Internet end users and that
is why, as your representative on the ICANN At-Large Council and
with the help of some ICANN discretionary funding, I am
organizing an outreach event to talk about them. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The Internet is a
global system and although what happens on the international
level may seem very far away from the grassroots of community
service, the domain name system that is managed through ICANN is
actually the very root of the Internet and what happens at that
root is important to all of us who now depend on its stability
and reliability to manage our daily affairs. So, </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New
Roman, Times, serif">I do hope some of you will be able to
tune into the briefing. </font></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New
Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif">In order to enable remote participation, this meeting
will be livestreamed and available on zoom. All details are
on the eventbrite site. If you are not able to attend at the
time of the meeting, you can always click on the livestream
link and watch it later.</font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Marita<br>
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