[council] Council meeting calendar

[Stéphane Van Gelder]

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 :

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> 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.
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> 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.  
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> 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.
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> Jeffrey J. Neuman 
> Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:50 AM
> To: Stéphane Van Gelder; council at gnso.icann.org List
> Subject: Re: [council] Council meeting calendar
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> 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
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> At 14/09/2011 04:50 AM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
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>> 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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