Re: [council] Preliminary planning for ICANN58

["James M. Bladel" <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, ok.  Sorry for misunderstanding.  I don’t know if this was considered by 
the MSWG, but perhaps we can ask our Staff folks to check in to it.

Thanks –

J.

On 11/28/16, 22:16 , "Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G." <crg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Thank you James.
    But here we are working on the 2nd derivative: ICANN hubs for Policy 
    (short) Meetings.
    Don´t know if this was also discarded.
    
    Cheers
    
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    On 28 Nov 2016, at 20:34, James M. Bladel wrote:
    
    > Just a note that the Meeting Strategy Working Group examined the idea 
    > of “rotating hubs”, and rejected them.  Mostly by folks from 
    > smaller and/or more distant locations who were concerned that ICANN 
    > would be permanently absent from their region.
    >
    > I don’t agree, but that was their finding.
    >
    > Thanks –
    >
    > J.
    >
    > On 11/28/16, 11:59 , "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" 
    > <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >
    >     Carlos
    >
    >     Ah ok, so the ICANN hubs.
    >     That makes a lot of sense from a cost and logistics perspective.
    >
    >     Regards
    >
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    >     On 28/11/2016, 11:33, "Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G." 
    > <crg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >
    >         ICANN hubs: LA, Istambul and Singapore.
    >
    >         I assume that those places are central located in terms of 
    > airlines
    >         logistics, already have a minimum of ICANN staff available, 
    > facilites,
    >         etc. and would greatly reduce the cost to set up meetings (A 
    > recent
    >         meeting of the CCT-RT in Washington DC had to fly in as many 
    > ICANN staff
    >         members as RT members, which calls for more reasonable places 
    > to meet,
    >         particularly for mainle “working” meetings like the Policy 
    > Format
    >         calls for).
    >
    >         Cheers
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    >         On 26 Nov 2016, at 10:14, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
    >
    >         > Carlos
    >         >
    >         > Which locations would you see as being “hubs”?
    >         >
    >         > Regards
    >         >
    >         > Michele
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