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Upcoming ICG Conference Calls

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The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) has scheduled its seventh, eighth and ninth conference calls:

  • ICG Call # 7 – Wednesday, 12 November – PRIVATE;

    Update (9 November 2014) – the ICG has decided to close this conference call to observers: in the context of the Request for Proposals for the secretariat function, the Selection Team has requested that the discussion be held in private to discuss details.

  • ICG Call # 8 (agenda here [PDF, 37 KB]) – Wednesday, 26 November at 02:00-03:00 UTC (time converter here); and
  • ICG Call # 9 (agenda here [PDF, 37 KB]) – Wednesday, 10 December at 11:00-12:00 UTC (time converter here).

The community is welcome to attend by way of a listen-only mode Virtual Meeting Room through which audio of the call will be streamed. Translations will be available through relevant Adigo Bridge dial-in numbers and Conference ID codes.

A list of country dial-in numbers can be found here. Should there be no appropriate dial-in number for an interested participant, ICANN will provide a dial-out service to that individual. Correspondingly, language service Conference ID numbers are listed below:

  • Français – Conference ID: 75929475

  • Español – Conference ID: 68385764

  • 中文 – Conference ID: 825702

  • Pусский – Conference ID: 345720

  • العربية – Conference ID: 82855066

  • Português – Conference ID: 759752

Participants who are interested in an English line but are unable to join by way of the Virtual Meeting Room may request a dial-out service.

For more information about the ICG and the IANA Stewardship Transition, please visit the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Microsite.

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