Forwarded on Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Dear Colleagues: In order to help ensure the community is able to make choices about attendance at the Nairobi meeting based upon complete and standardised information, two teleconferences will be held later this week. Please ensure that the following message is communicated to community mailing lists. A detailed agenda will be provided in due course as a follow-up message. In case you are wondering, staff are welcome to attend these conferences, but please keep in mind that Q&A time should be reserved for the community unless there is plenty of Q&A time and the presenters specifically ask if there are any questions from members of staff. --- Dear Community: As a part of our efforts to provide more information for attendees and potential attendees of the Nairobi ICANN meeting, the staff are pleased to provide advance notice of an upcoming pair of teleconferences to brief you about about logistical and security arrangements, and allow you to ask questions. Agenda details will be forthcoming shortly, but we wanted to ensure we got the word out so you could 'save the date'. The teleconferences will be approximately one hour long, depending upon the length of the Q&A, and held as follows: 1) Thursday, 28th January, 0600 UTC (1130 New Delhi, 0900 Nairobi, 1400 Beijing, 1700 Sydney (for the Eastern Hemisphere) 2) Friday, 29th January, 2000 UTC (1200 Los Angeles, 1500 New York, 1700 Buenos Aires, 1800 Sao Paulo (for the Western Hemisphere) The agenda and material presented will be identical at each session. Freephone access dial-in numbers are available for many countries worldwide, with dial-outs upon request where needed. Information on how to attend will be provided along with the agenda in the next few days. -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Senior Director for Participation and Engagement Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Tel: +33 (450) 42 81 83 USA Tel: +1 (310) 301-8637 Fax: : +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: (Switzerland): +41 79 595 5468 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart