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Update and advisory to BC members regarding Oct 12 sessions<br><br>This is a reminder to mark your calendar for the Oct 12 sessions. Some will not be of interest to <br>all BC members, and the day of work is designed in modules, to enable interested members to <br>pick and chose.<br><br>The CSG Charter working session is looking like it is more of an experts discussion with staff<br>and I doubt that will have high appeal to all members, but it will be open to any interested BC members.<br>There will be two roundtables which are informational sessions and will also include invited guests who <br>may be recruitment opportunities. <br><br>Informal lunch with roundtable speakers and ICANN staff<br><br>BC Meeting for members only - <br>Policy Session - 2 hours (may be modified as needed) <br>-Two to three topics will be discussed in detail with Members 15-20 min each<br>-Updates on other existing policy topics from Rapporteurs-Working Groups<br>-Proposal from V.Chair, Policy Coordination for updating policy positions and<br>rapporteurs<br>NomComm members from BC - 10 minutes<br>Administrative and Management Update - 15 minutes<br>Communications and Membership Recruitment Initiatives - 10 Minutes<br>BC Charter - overview and identification areas for change and improvement - 45 minutes <br>(supported by ICANN staff with expertise and familiarity with GNSO Restructuring WGs)<br><br>Chair note: I am seeing some questions about what will happen on the Oct 12 sessions. Please<br>look at the agenda, which has been sent out a couple of times now, and now includes input<br>from different members, including some of our newest members. <br><br>All sessions will be transcribed and the Charter discussions are to gain input, so that then an<br>updated charter can be distributed. We will address questions from members about why to make<br>changes during the session and can also take written submissions about sections to update or<br>not update, via email. Send the email proposals on the BC Charter to Marilyn, Sarah and Chris, and Steve<br>and the CSG charter suggestions to Sarah, with a cc to Marilyn. Please do not use the full list for those<br>submissions. We will aggregate them and put them into a single document to post to the list, so that members<br>are not receiving random emails about that topic. Many members strongly prefer to have a less back and forth<br>about such topics, and we can easily honor their request by this method of gathering input on the CSG Charter<br>and BC Charter discussion segments. <br><br>We will also hear from Chris and one of our members regarding a new newsletter approach, which will be<br>an exciting new improvement to members communications. <br><br>Remote participation will be supported by ICANN, and all sessions will be transcribed. <br><br>Marilyn Cade<br>BC Chair<br><br>CC: ExComm<br><br><br><br> </body>
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