RE: [council] Drafting meeting

["Liz Williams" <liz.williams@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

Just a quick note from the staff side.  We usually arrive several days
before the ICANN meetings to do all the preparation necessary for the Board,
Council and other meetings.

The proposal to meet for two GNSO days before would have a direct impact on
the way in which the staff would plan their involvement.

Before we make firm commitments about times/dates/places/logistics could I
confer internally and let Council know what would be practical from our side
as well.

Bruce's ideas about meetings prior to Wellington is a good one -- of course,
the Brussels office could be used to facilitate those kinds of meetings for
people in Europe and we could work out how to do that.

Will get back to everyone ASAP.

Liz

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 2:26 AM
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [council] Drafting meeting

Hello Avri,

> 
> Probably not a realistic suggestion but one I feel needs to 
> be put forward. Is there any way to arrange for the face to 
> face drafting session to be done at an interim time between 
> Vancouver and Wellington in order to expedite the work and 
> try to meet the by-laws'  
> required timing?

Part of the issue here is that a face-to-face meeting requires
significant travel for most Council members - this is a matter of time
and cost.   E.g it is at least a days travel for me to and from most
locations in Europe or USA.

Thus the proposal to meet shortly before Wellington was to ensure
economies of airfares for those that will most likely be travelling to
Wellington anyway.

Of course smaller groups of ICANN participants can get together in local
regions prior to Wellington, with the Wellington meeting be an
opportunity to consolidate the views of prior meetings. 

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin