[council] Re: [gtld-council] Draft Agenda for Brussels meeting - 11 May to 13 May

[Norbert Klein]

Thanks, Bret and Maureen,

for raising this question of a fairly late re-scheduling and the 
consequences. Obviously I was wrong when I assumed for quite some time 
that the consensus had already moved to later in May.


Norbert

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Cubberley, Maureen (CHT) wrote:
> Bret, Glen and All,
>
> Bret, I agree with your observations and I'm beginning to think it is
> ill-advised to proceed with the meeting.
>
> I will be unable to attend in person. Given the importance of the task
> force work (PDP feb 06), and its relationship to what we plan to work on
> in Brussels, I am disappointed that the timing and travel logistics
> preclude my direct participation. (Even with juggling my schedule, I
> just can't get to Brussels and back in time to meet other business
> commitments.)
>
> Aside from, and more important than my own individual regret, is the
> fact that there will be so few participants at what I understand is
> intended to be a session of the entire Council, consistent with the PDP
> process we have adopted for this work on new TLDs.
>
> It seems to me that we have too few in-person participants to proceed as
> planned, and I would support the idea of re-scheduling, or finding
> another way to "meet", perhaps something consistent with what Bret has
> suggested.
>
> Best regards,
> Maureen
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gtld-council at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-gtld-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bret Fausett
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:17 PM
> To: robin at ipjustice.org; gtld-council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: RE: [gtld-council] Draft Agenda for Brussels meeting - 11 May
> to 13 May
>
> Glen,
>
> Do you have a head count yet for the Brussels meeting? Given the
> substantial
> number of apologies, I wonder whether a face-to-face meeting for this
> place
> and time is still appropriate. Perhaps we could substitute some focused
> time, in our own locales, on a wiki or other Internet-based forum. 
>
>        Bret
>
>
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