RE: [council] Agenda for New gTLD face to face meeting on 10-11 April 2008

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Glen.

This is an extremely full agenda for one day.  Assuming there are no 
recommendations for which there are serious implementation challenges, it might 
be fine.  But I seriously suspect that is not the case.  As we all though, 
there are 3 or 4 recommendations that may present some difficulties in terms of 
implementing them in an objective manner.  If any of those require significant 
changes, then I believe that considerable time may be needed to discuss them.  
Not knowing the latest status of implementation plans, it is not possible for 
me to know whether the time is sufficient or not, but I think it would be very 
unfortunate if we did not have sufficient time to discuss the more challenging 
recommendations.

Clearly, the recommendations under Term of Reference II (Selection Criteria) 
will require the most time and, in fact, more time is allocated for them, but 
it still may not be sufficient.  Here are a couple of ideas for gaining more 
time for ToR II:

        - Start the meeting at 8 am.
        - Provide written information about the morning agenda items in advance 
of the meeting and simply provide a very brief overview and allow for questions 
and answers and discussion on those items that participants identify.  It seems 
to me that very few of these present anywhere near the implementation 
challenges of the some of those in the afternoon part of the agenda, so they 
could more easily be handled without an in-person session.  This would possibly 
allow for combining all three ToRs into one or at most two sessions.

These two ideas are not mutually exclusive and I am sure there are others ways 
we could maximize the time spent on the most challenging recommendations.

Chuck
            

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Subject: [council] Agenda for New gTLD face to face meeting on 10-11 April 2008

Dear Councilors,

The face to face meetings in Los Angeles will take place at the LAX Hilton 
Hotel in the Carmel room, the same place that the GNSO had for its working 
sessions during 2007 ICANN meetings in Los Angeles. There is a free shuttle 
from the airport to the hotel.

Remote participation on Friday, 11 April 2008 will be available, and details 
will follow.

Please contact me off the list for travel and hotel arrangements if you have 
not already done so.

Thank you.
Kind regards

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org