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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Councilors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
want to give you advance warning that we are going to try something new in the
Board/Staff/GNSO meeting Sunday evening. In an effort to attempt to increase
the value of the session to Board members we are planning to do the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1. Assign discussion topics by
table<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2. Pre-assign Councilor and
Staff members to tables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3. Give Board members the
choice of topic/table on a first come, first served basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To
facilitate this, Olga, Stéphane, Glen, Gisella & I took a first crack at
assigning a subset of Councilors and all of Staff to tables according to
discussion topic. We tried to do this in a manner that we hope will maximize
the discussion at each table. I won’t try to explain all of the
rationale we used but want to at least say that we tried to make sure that
there are at least two Councilors at each table who are well versed in the
topic and, where applicable, might have some different views on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
our brief planning session tomorrow afternoon to prepare for the dinner
meeting, our main focus will be to assign the remaining Councilors to tables.
The attached document lists the table topics and the seat assignments we made
thus far. I would hope that we won’t have to make many, if any, changes
to these because we probably will not have enough time to do so, but we may
consider a few changes if we have time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
review the table topics and pre-assigned seat assignments before the planning
session, which is now scheduled after the New gTLD session (~ 4 pm). For those
of you who are not yet assigned to a table, please identify what topics
(tables) you would prefer. Note that there will be two tables each for two of
the topics and that there will be two open tables where any topic may be
discussed, with the intent to let Board members express their preferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>During
the dinner meeting, I encourage everyone to encourage Board members to ask
questions they have about the topic or to express what concerns they have about
it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
fully recognize that this is a dramatic change from what we have done in the
past and ask all of you to indulge your leadership team in our ‘decision
by committee’ approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,
Chuck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Please note that the schedule has gone back to the original time,
Kurt will be addressing the Council at 14:00.<br>
13:00 – 14:00 Preparation for joint GNSO/ccNSO Council meeting and
Board/GNSO dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Glen
de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO
Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
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