Hi Owen

Yesterday at the Council meeting we touched briefly on this topic and I believe the ccNSO is interested in a joint session. Depending on what you have in mind ICANN85 may be problematic. The ccNSO schedule is already very full, starting with WG meetings on Saturday and ending with the Council meeting on Thursday. This being said, meeting with ccNSO leadership is easy to organize, and I suggest we do this anyway in February in a joint leadership call to explore potential topics for a joint session. Meeting with the ccNSO Council in Mumbai, may be already hard, but might be doable on Monday (block 4 or 5) in parallel with Tech Day. Meeting with the members of the ccNSO is not possible in Mumbai, all slots on Tuesday and Wednesday are already taken. I can see that a session/meeting between the RrSG group and ccNSO members can be of interest to both, but then we need to prepare for it and from our end we can already pencil it in for ICANN86.

Please let me know how you want to proceed.

Best regards,

Alejandra

P.S. Happy holidays! 🎄

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On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM Alejandra Reynoso Barral <alejandra.reynoso@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Owen

Sorry for the late reply.
We will discuss this next week at the ccNSO Council meeting.
I'll follow up with the outcome.

Best,
Alejandra

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM Owen Smigelski <owen.smigelski@namecheap.com> wrote:
Hi Alejandra,

Just a quick follow up in case this got buried in your inbox. The RrSG is very interested in a session with the ccNSO at ICANN85.

Regards,

Owen

> On Dec 3, 2025, at 14:59, Owen Smigelski <owen.smigelski@namecheap.com> wrote:
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> Hi Alejandra,
>
> I hope this is your proper email address- I found it from previous ICANN emails.
>
> At the RrSG strategic planning meeting in Prague, one takeaway was to schedule regular meetings with the ccNSO. If possible, we would like to start that at ICANN85, and to make sure moving forward we have periodic in-person and if needed intercessional meetings. Almost all registrars are accredited in ccTLDs, and we think it would be good to establish an ongoing dialogue. We also have a lot of aligned interests, e.g. combatting DNS Abuse.
>
> Would the ccNSO be able to meet with the RrSG during ICANN85? Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> Owen