Re: [council] Council meeting calendar

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

Thanks for everyone's input. As it seems there is opposition to canceling the 
Oct 6 meeting, we will leave it in the calendar as planned.

Thanks,

Stéphane



Le 14 sept. 2011 à 17:05, Neuman, Jeff a écrit :

> 
> I have shared my views with Stephane that I believe cancelling the meeting is 
> not a good idea.  We have 8+ motions at least to consider on the 22nd and 
> many of them are very substantive and likely may be deferred.
> 
> In addition, we vowed at the last open council meeting to try new things at 
> the Dakar public council meeting to make it more interactive and less focused 
> on motions drafting etc.  In order to be able to do that, we need to get some 
> business done before hand.  
> 
> Given all of the things we now have on our plate, Kristina's note that there 
> may be additional motions from the IPC, the substantive discussions we will 
> likely have with JAS, and everything above, I am not in favor of cancelling 
> the next meeting.
> 
> Jeffrey J. Neuman 
> Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Alan Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:50 AM
> To: Stéphane Van Gelder; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx List
> Subject: Re: [council] Council meeting calendar
> 
> 
> Cancelling that meeting presumes that a decision 
> on the JAS report will not be deferred at the 
> Sept 22 meeting. If it were deferred, a vote 
> taken at the Oct 6 meeting would still be 
> effective (ie a decision of the GNSO prior to 
> Dakar, even if a day late for the official document cutoff).
> 
> Alan
> 
> At 14/09/2011 04:50 AM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
> 
>> Councillors,
>> 
>> As a side-effect of pushing back our September 
>> meeting to the 22nd, our meeting calendar for 
>> October now no longer seems to make much sense.
>> 
>> We have 2 meetings planned in October, the first 
>> on Oct 6 and the second is the Open Meeting in Dakar on Oct 26.
>> 
>> The first meeting has a deadline for motions on 
>> Sept 28, so that's just days after our Sept 22 meeting.
>> 
>> In light of all this, I would like to suggest we 
>> simply cancel the meeting planned on Oct 6 and 
>> return to our standard one-month interval 
>> between meetings with our Open Meeting on Oct 26.
>> 
>> This would also have the added benefit of making 
>> the Oct 26 meeting more relevant. You will 
>> remember that in Singapore, we suffered a little 
>> in drafting the agenda for our Open Meeting 
>> there because we'd had a Council teleconference 
>> just days before the Singapore meeting.
>> 
>> Does anyone object to canceling the Oct 6 meting?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Stéphane
> 
> 
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