Dear All, Although there is still enough time to finalized the drafting team, we could see an amazing 6 core volunteer members are emerging. We would like to thank everyone who volunteered so far -they are coppied in this email- but we still wait for others to be among the drafting team. Upon the discussion between us, we found an advantage of creating another list of observers to empower community members to observe the core drafting team during their development of the ME statement. However, we didn't decide the observers' rule yet and kept it to be discussed with the drafting team. Taking this proposal to encouraging MEAC community members to reply to this email stating that they would like to be an observers in this process. Wishing you all a good day, MEAC Space Leading Team Tijani and Nadira On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 08:13 Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All, As the closing date of the call for topics came to an end on January 18th, we are glad to announce that the Universal Acceptance topic got the highest support. (Please see the detail of the proposed topics with their proposers and supporters at the end of this email.)
So the topic of the ICANN 64 ME Space in Kobe will be* Universal Acceptance (UA)*
Moving to the next step, we are here making a *call for volunteers to form the drafting team*. Please express your interest to join the drafting team *before 31 January at 23:59*.
We would encourage all those who proposed and/or supported the this topic as well as the whole MEAC community members to reply to this email expressing their interest in joining the drafting team.
As a MEAC Space Leading Team we will be happy to support the drafting team and contribute each time it is necessary.
For scheduling your time, below we copied the timeline and steps to follow to be ready for the final draft.
21 - 31 January Call for volunteers for the drafting team
04 February Announcement of the drafting team composition
05 - 13 February Drafting of the statement (1st draft).
13 February Publishing of the 1st draft for comments
14 - 21 February Comment period for the 1st draft of the statement
22 - 28 February Drafting of the final version
01 March Final draft published Looking forward to the continuation of the great momentum.
Best regards, ME Space Leading Team
1. EPDP
<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/epdp-gtld-registration-data-specs-init...> {Hadia, Ines} note: Report Overdue since 11th Jan 2019
1.1. Standardized access model within the EPDP {Hadia}/ Unified Model for Access and Accreditation <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/possible-unified-access-model-published-for-...> {Nitin}
2. New gTLD Subsequent Procedures <https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/new-gtld-subsequent-proced...> {Nitin}
2.1. Neustar proposal on the upcoming rounds <http://20181014_new_tld_subsequent_procedures_a_proposed_model_to_move_forwa...> {Tijani, Nadira, Hadia}
3. Universal Acceptance <https://uasg.tech/2018/12/icann-further-commits-to-universal-acceptance-of-d...> {Nitin, Ajay, Chokri, Fahd, Farzaneh, Hadia, Zakir, Ali, Abdalmonem}
3.1. Universal Acceptance (UA) /Email Address Internationalization (EAI) <https://uasg.tech/2017/07/bridging-digital-language-divide/> {Nitin, Ajay, Ali, Abdalmonem, Ahmed}
3.2. Universal Acceptance (UA)/ IDN TLDs <https://uasg.tech/2019/01/internationalized-domain-names-and-universal-accep...> {Ajay, Tijani, Zakir, Ali, Abdalmonem, Ahmed}/ {with focus on Arabic script {Zied, Hanan}
4. ICANN Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025 <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/strategic-plan-2018-12-20-en> {Chokri, Fahd} note: public comments are due 11th Feb, 2019
5. ICANN Operating Plan & Budget <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/fy20-budget-2018-12-17-en> {Farzaneh} note: public comments are due 8th Feb, 2019