RE: [council] RE: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face Meeting

[Margie Milam <Margie.Milam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

To be clear,  Staff did not initiate this request.   We are responding to the 
STI’s request to consider organizing a face to face meeting to facilitate 
achievement of a consensus in the short time framework requested by the Board.

We agree that the GNSO Council  should be prioritizing the work at hand and 
have been working with the Vice Chairs to develop a methodology to do this.   
However, until this is done,  the STI project is one of the projects that is a 
high priority as it affects the implementation details for the new gTLDs.   As 
a result, it is appropriate for Staff to decide whether incurring these costs 
is  useful to assist the Community in  coming to closure on a response to the 
Board letter  in a timely manner.    We will likely schedule this meeting  if 
the consensus of the STI group is that such a meeting will be useful, and the 
costs of doing so are reasonable and within our budgetary constraints.

Best Regards,

Margie

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Margie Milam
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN
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From: Stéphane Van Gelder [stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:16 AM
To: Margie Milam; GNSO Council
Subject: Re: [council] RE: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face Meeting

Perhaps Margie could give us staff's perspective on this?

Thanks,

Stéphane

Le 12 nov. 2009 à 16:50, Mike Rodenbaugh a écrit :

Again I am concerned that staff is organizing a resource-intensive F2F meeting 
without a request for same from Council.  Again copying the Council list.

The PPSC-WT is also trying to do this simultaneously.  The Council ought to be 
prioritizing these resources across all our work, it ought not be done by Staff 
and various WGs in silos.

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From: owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx> 
[mailto:owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margie Milam
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:07 PM
To: GNSO STI
Cc: Marilyn Vernon
Subject: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face Meeting

Dear All,

I checked into the possibility of a face to face meeting for the STI group, 
funded by ICANN, to facilitate resolution of the  outstanding issues and the 
efforts to gain a consensus on an alternative proposal.    We are exploring the 
feasibility of this request, and wanted to get some information from you to 
assess the costs of doing this on a relatively short notice.

Specifically, we would try to pick a location to minimize the travel costs for 
the participants, and would likely pick an inexpensive locale in a central 
location.

Do we have an idea of when to schedule the meeting?   We assume that it would 
be sometime between now and mid-December.    Rather than have a discussion on 
the list, please email our administrative assistant, Marilyn Vernon, with days 
that you would be unavailable between now and mid-December.   She is cc’d on 
this email.   Please let her know your location as well.

Best regards,

Margie
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Margie Milam
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN

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