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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks for sharing this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">My personal thoughts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">1 – Single is easier. Rationale: some of the RrSG members plan their attendance around the SG meeting with some only coming to meetings in Europe to attend it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">2 / 3/ 4 – I think the entire HIT thing needs to be revisited.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What is the rationale behind this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What exactly constitutes “high interest”? For whom? ICANN staff? Community? The GAC?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m not opposed to the concept of these plenary sessions, but if they are to be truly plenary then the number of them needs to be reduced and that would also mean the number of conflicts
would be more manageable. In Hyderabad there were too many of these sessions and the conflicts were a mess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">How topics are chosen will always be a difficult point, but other organisations manage to schedule these things without it being such a big deal and headache<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Why not adopt a “sane” process like others have? Ie. “call for topics / papers” which generates the intitial list and then some kind of simple polling / ranking system to choose
the two or three that should take place?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The way it was handled for India seems to have been completely random<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black"><owner-council@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of James Bladel <jbladel@godaddy.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday 23 November 2016 at 05:57<br>
<b>To: </b>GNSO Council List <council@gnso.icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[council] Preliminary planning for ICANN58<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Councilors –</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As discussed in Hyderabad, the SO/ACs are pushing ICANN Staff to get an early start on planning for ICANN58, in an effort to avoid/mitigate some of the pain points experienced at ICANN57.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To this end, Staff has prepared the attached document (PDF), outlining the timeline for finalizing the ICANN58 schedule, along with two draft “Block Schedules”: one with a single Constituency Day, the other
with a split Constituency Day(s). Finally, the PDF displays results and feedback gathered from the meeting survey.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SO/AC leaders (including Donna, Heather and myself) are planning to meet with ICANN Meeting Staff in early December to discuss the Block Schedule. Questions for the GNSO Council:<br>
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(1) Do we prefer a Single or Split Constituency Day?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(2) What is the right number of High Interest Topics (HIT)? The current Block Schedule drafts contain five HIT sessions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(3) Any thoughts on the best way to solicit topics for HIT sessions, and how to choose the top 5?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(4) Similarly, any thoughts on how to address the inevitable conflicts between working sessions and HITs?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(5) Any other specific feedback you’d like us to bring to the SO/AC meeting</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Please respond by next week with your ideas, and we’ll take them back to the planning group.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thanks—</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">J.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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