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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:36.0pt">Call for Presentations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> TechDay<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> at ICANN 57<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> in Hyderabad<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ICANN Tech Working Group is again planning a technical workshop at the ICANN 57 meeting on 2016-11-05 in Hyderabad, India.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The TechDay Workshop has been a part of ICANN meetings for several years and has provided a forum for both experienced and new people to meet, present and discuss technical topics related to registry and DNS work and security.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For reference, the most recent session was held at the ICANN meeting in Helsinki, Finland 2016-06-27.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are specially interested in:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Registration Information Accuracy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We remain interested in presentations relating to registry contact data cleanup, address validation, malicious registration data verification, batch and/or real-time validation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We would like, in particular, to see solutions leveraging Open Source, Open Data or Open Research in order to make them available to a wider audience.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. IDN<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to hear about initiatives with regards to IDN.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. In addition, we welcome suggestions for additional topics, such as;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Registry services and systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Big Data & associated data analysis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* IETF DNS protocol updates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Registry security<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in participating, please email one or all of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:el@lisse.NA">el@lisse.NA</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ondrej.filip@nic.cz">ondrej.filip@nic.cz</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jacques.latour@cira.ca">jacques.latour@cira.ca</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:kimberly.carlson@icann.org">kimberly.carlson@icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We hope that you can join us and request that you disseminate this Request to other lists where it might of of interest.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jacques<o:p></o:p></p>
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