Dear all, If you have not yet filled in the Doodle Poll - http://doodle.com/e546t3ytzhhb3qtz – please do so by close of business today. The poll will be closed tomorrow and the current 'frontrunner' is Thursdays 14.00 UTC. Many thanks and best wishes, Lars From: Lars Hoffmann <lars.hoffmann@icann.org<mailto:lars.hoffmann@icann.org>> Date: Monday, December 9, 2013 5:32 PM To: "gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org<mailto:gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org>" <gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org<mailto:gnso-contactinfo-pdp-wg@icann.org>> Subject: First meeting Doodle, PLEASE REPLY Dear all, Thank you for signing up as volunteers to the Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP Working Group. Please fill in this doodle poll to facilitate finding a suitable weekly meeting time: http://doodle.com/e546t3ytzhhb3qtz Moreover, this PDP has been tasked by the GNSO Council to Group to address issues related to the potential need to translate and/or transliterate contact information data. As part of its deliberations on this issue, Charter stipulates several questions for the PDP WG to consider, including (but not limited to): * Whether it is desirable to translate contact information to a single common language or transliterate contact information to a single common script. * Who should decide who should bear the burden translating contact information to a single common language or transliterating contact information to a single common script. For more detailed, consult the WG's Charter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/transliteration-contact-charter-06nov13-en.p...>. In preparation for the first meeting, please take a moment to review the relevant background documents, including the Charter<http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/transliteration-contact-charter-06nov13-en.p...>, which have been posted on the WG workspace https://community.icann.org/x/FTR-Ag. Staff will start this first session with an introductory presentation on the issue of Translation and Transliteration and also provide some other useful background on the GNSO Policy Development Process. In addition, a nomination of a Working Group Chair or co-Chairs is expected to take place during the first meeting, volunteers are encouraged to express interest ahead or even during the meeting. We'll be using Adobe Connect to facilitate the meeting. For those of you using Adobe Connect for the first time, please find a short introduction video here: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/participatemeeting/. If you have any comments or questions, please let me know. With best regards,