Re: [council] Proposed GNSO Council schedule for Singapore

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mary, Glen,

Thanks to you both for your hard work on this.

Stéphane



Le 8 juin 2011 à 05:18, <Mary.Wong@xxxxxxxxxxx> <Mary.Wong@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit 
:

> Hello everyone
>  
> Attached is the proposed GNSO Council schedule for Singapore, which Glen and 
> I think is more or less final (barring some last minute overall schedule 
> changes that we can't control). We think that the best way to read it is to 
> have at hand the overall meeting schedule, which is at 
> http://singapore41.icann.org/full-schedule.
>  
> Please note the following:
>  
> - We have not yet moved the GNSO Council dinner from Sunday night to Saturday 
> evening, as we have sent a final enquiry to Diane Schroeder, who handles the 
> Board's schedule, and plan to give her the next 24 hours to confirm one way 
> or the other. It is likely that - in line with Adrian and others' preferences 
> - we will have our Council dinner on Saturday instead of Sunday, but I wanted 
> to let you know that we haven't yet made the change on the attached 
> spreadsheet.
>  
> - The Saturday GNSO session will start at 10 a.m. instead of our original 
> plan of 12 noon. The reason for this is that we think most Councilors will 
> want to attend the Board/GAC open meeting on Sunday afternoon; as such, we 
> need to move the GNSO weekend start time up on Saturday in order to deal with 
> all the GNSO-related matters that are on our plate. (NOTE: the 9 a.m. slot 
> shown on the schedule right now is for the face-to-face meeting of the 
> Standing Committee on Implementation (SCI), to which, of course, all 
> Councilors are welcome and for which I've promised the SCI members a 
> Singaporean breakfast :)
>  
> - We have tried to minimize conflicts as far as possible, but - as evidenced 
> by the various emails you will have seen on the Council list - it is becoming 
> near-impossible to have slots that do not conflict with one thing or another. 
> I should say that in this effort Glen has been invaluable in her efforts to 
> coordinate with all the other committees, groups and staff!
>  
> - For Monday, the joint GNSO/ccNSO meeting will be the customary lunch, as it 
> will be Leslie Cowley's first as ccNSO chair. Although the ICANN meeting 
> schedule currently shows it as concurrent with the Forum on DNS Abuse, I 
> understand that there is a possibility that the Forum may be switched with 
> the IDN Variant session.
>  
> - For Wednesday, while the overall ICANN meeting schedule still shows a 
> GAC-GNSO Council meeting (which we had originally moved to Wednesday instead 
> of the customary weekend session due to the Board-GAC meetings), our 
> understanding is that the GAC has requested that we postpone our meeting with 
> them till the next ICANN meeting. Given that the GAC's attention has largely 
> been on the new gTLD program and that Heather assures us the GAC remains 
> committed to working with the GNSO on those issues we had discussed and 
> identified previously, which are all ongoing discussions, it does not seem 
> necessary to insist on a meeting with the GAC in Singapore, particularly if 
> this can occur only after an expected announcement on the new gTLD program.
>  
> - For Thursday, we will have our usual GNSO Wrap Up Meeting over lunch. 
> Please note that, although the overall ICANN meeting schedule shows 
> otherwise, our understanding is that Getting Ready: Understanding the 
> Applicant Guidebook session is likely to be moved up to the morning, thereby 
> eliminating a conflict with our Wrap Up Meetiing.
>  
> Thanks, and please let me and Glen know if you have questions about the 
> schedule.
>  
> Cheers
> Mary
>  
>  
> Mary W S Wong
> Professor of Law
> Chair, Graduate IP Programs
> Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
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> <Copy of Copy of GNSO Draft Singapore 2011 v12.xls>