Re: [council] Extra day

[Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@xxxxxx>]

It seems that all positions are towards having less cost to attend, so it seems 
the difference is whether the travel is ICANN-funded or member-funded, because 
when it's ICANN-funded, possible flight rescheduling costs are for ICANN to 
pay. 


Rubens


> On Mar 10, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Edward Morris <egmorris1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I agree with David.
> 
> The CCWG Accountability meetings we have had prior to general ICANN meetings 
> have been totally separate affairs from the general meeting itself. They 
> would be necessary regardless of whether ICANN even had a general meeting. I 
> appreciate being able to combine a working group meeting with a general 
> meeting as it saves me both time and money in transport costs. I support the 
> extra meeting day as proposed.
> 
> Ed
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 10 Mar 2016, at 13:29, David Cake <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'll repeat my comments again. The F2F WG meetings are not part of the 
>> meeting proper,do not replace WG  meetings or other policy work at meetings 
>> (they are generally closed, do not involve interaction with other groups, 
>> etc), and should be regarded as an extension of inter-sessional work that 
>> simply happens to occur with along side meeting for practical reasons. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On 10 Mar 2016, at 1:00 PM, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Since there was not enough time during our wrap-session to discuss this, 
>>> I'll write my thoughts on this for Donna, Volker and the council to consider
>>> 
>>> I fully support Donna's position that we should reject this idea and focus 
>>> most days of a B meeting on policy. If ICANN is also doing outreach, those 
>>> tracks could run side-by-side instead of outreach taking an amount of days 
>>> (even if only 1) and leaving the others day to policy. 
>>> 
>>> I also have to take exception with adding extra days; for those traveling 
>>> from distant regions, travel affordability is tied to booking flights and 
>>> hotels many months in advance. When days are added before or after a 
>>> meeting, what happens is that those that already booked end up either 
>>> incurring in costs or missing the added sessions. One of the good outcomes 
>>> of the new meeting strategy  was we committing to a fixed schedule, and 
>>> this is now at risk. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rubens
>> 
>> 
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