<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Actually it turns out the timing was advanced from Monday to Friday evening by a press leak. But Monday should still be interesting, a lot of statements getting readied for roll out.<div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 15, 2014, at 12:23 PM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div><br></div><div>ICANN Singapore starts next week, and this will be the focus of many discussions, beginning with the NCUC conference on Friday 21, at which Larry S. is keynoting. People begin to travel there early next week, and D.C. beltway types will quick to react. So the timing seems sensible enough.</div><div><br></div><div>It might be fun to now go back and read some of the adamant statements made on these lists over the past few months about the Net Mundial being part of a secret plot to preserve the status quo etc.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Cheers<br><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Renata Avila <<a href="mailto:renata@webfoundation.org">renata@webfoundation.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">Friday night. Interesting timing.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 Mar 2014 22:56, "Jeanette Hofmann" <<a href="mailto:jeanette@wzb.eu">jeanette@wzb.eu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto;">
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Am 14.03.14 22:44, schrieb Jeanette Hofmann:<br>
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More to follow I guess.<br>
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Jeanette<br>
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