[council] Ramp-up for London

[Volker Greimann <vgreimann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear fellow councillors,

we, i.e. ICANN staff and Jonathan, David and me are currently in the 
first stages of preparing the London meeting schedules.
One of the main feedback points we received from the last poll was that 
the council appreciated the discussion slots more than the presentation 
slots. One comment also requested better preparation of these 
discussions, therefore it will be valuable to have the council discuss 
the main topics for discussion in advance. That would save us valuable 
time on Saturday that we can use to potentially extend the discussion 
slots. We will still include preparation time, however that should be 
used to adjust the plans with regard to events that happened since 
travelling to London was initiated.
With regard to the working group reports, many commenters were of the 
opinion to cut short the time of any groups that did not have anything 
substantial to report, however this is very difficult to achieve in 
advance as many WGs will be publishing their reports "just in time" i.e. 
at a time when the main schedule is already set. I would therefore like 
to ask the council liaisons to the various working groups to reach out 
to me with their estimation of how much time - if any - their groups 
would need to present the current work results. That way we may have 
more time for groups that just published a report or need time to reach 
out to the council for feeedback and less time for groups that are still 
happiliy plugging along, but have nothing to report that they didn't 
already report the last time.
Other than that, do we want to hear from anyone (staff, community 
leaders, etc) we did not hear from last meeting ? Suggestions are welcome.
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Best regards,

Volker Greimann