<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Here are some of the points that I picked up from today's excellent discussions.</div><div><br></div><div>Once again, thanks to you all for your hard work this week. Safe travels home and see you all next time.</div><div><br></div><div>Special mention to Kristina, Adrian, Tim and Zahid. We will miss your wisdom, enthusiasm, hard work and... ice cream. Or to put it more succinctly, we will miss you!!!</div><div><br></div><div>Stéphane</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">GNSO review, the
timeframe has been pushed back from 3 to 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">This currently has the
next review starting in July 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Previous
recommendations were approved by the Board at the July 2008 Paris meeting. The
SIC will talk about this in the months to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Start open Council
meetings with the open mic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Do not fill the Open
meetings with non-essential agenda items. If there aren't enough items to cover
the time, make the meetings shorter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Informal working group
on helping "juice up" the GNSO Council Open meetings: Adrian, Jeff,
John, Stéphane.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">These are the dates
we've worked out for the JAS: For the Board to approve the JAS implementation
plan in Dakar on October 28, the Staff must publish all documents for the Dakar
meeting 15 business days before Dakar, so October 7. So that means the Council
must approve the JAS Final Report at its September 8 meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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