<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Nathalie,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks for this,</div><div class="gmail_extra">31st August can be the Islamic Eid el Adha in 2017.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Rafik<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-21 0:07 GMT+09:00 Nathalie Peregrine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathalie.peregrine@icann.org" target="_blank">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear all,</div>
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Staff has put together the following date proposals for the GNSO Council meetings in 2017, based on the principle of the third Thursday of the month, as scheduled previous years.</div>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">19 January 2017 at 21:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">16 February 2017 at 12:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">11-16 March 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 April 2017 21:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">18 May 2017 12:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">26-29 June 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 July 2017 21:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">31 August 2017: 12:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">28 September 2017 <span class="m_8860322029774636564apple-converted-space">21:00 UTC</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">21 October 2017 12:00 UTC </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">28 October– 3 November ICANN Meeting)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">30 November 2017 21:00UTC <wbr> <wbr> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">21 December 2017 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt"><b>The main issues are with the above list are: </b></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="3">The 21 October is too close to the 28 October so
suggestion would be to advance the 21th to the 12th October. </font></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><font size="3" style="background-color:rgb(255,254,254)">This would make it too close to the 28th September, so
this meeting would need to be advanced too.</font></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="3">To
avoid </font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Calibri">conflict with Rosh Hashanah (Thursday 21 September)</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="3">
we propose to have a meeting exceptionally on Wednesday 20 September (replacing the 28th September)</font></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="m_8860322029774636564MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255,254,254)"><font size="3"><b>Updated list would read as:</b></font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">19 January 2017 at 21:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">16 February 2017 at 12:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">11-16 March 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 April 2017 21:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">18 May 2017 12:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">26-29 June 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 July 2017 21:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">31 August 2017: 12:00 UTC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 September 2017 <span class="m_8860322029774636564apple-converted-space">21:00 UTC</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">12 October 2017 12:00 UTC </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">28 October– 3 November (ICANN Meeting)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">30 November 2017 21:00UTC <wbr> <wbr> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">21 December 2017 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">We welcome all input from councilors prior to publishing these dates to the GNSO website and mailing lists.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Kind regards</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Nathalie</span></p>
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