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<p>Dear Nathalie, all,</p>
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<p>I have no objections to the updated list of dates.</p>
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<p>Best wishes, and happy Thanksgiving weekend to those celebrating,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> owner-council@gnso.icann.org <owner-council@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 21, 2016 9:13:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nathalie Peregrine; council@gnso.icann.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gnso-secs@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [council] RE: Request for input: GNSO Council meeting dates 2017</font>
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<div>I don't see any obvious issues for me with any of the proposed dates / times.</div>
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<div id="divRpF692814" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> owner-council@gnso.icann.org [owner-council@gnso.icann.org] on behalf of Nathalie Peregrine [nathalie.peregrine@icann.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 20 November 2016 15:07<br>
<b>To:</b> council@gnso.icann.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gnso-secs@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [council] Request for input: GNSO Council meeting dates 2017<br>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px; color:rgb(0,0,0)">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></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">16 February 2017 at 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">11-16 March 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 April 2017 21:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">18 May 2017 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">26-29 June 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 July 2017 21:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">31 August 2017: 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">28 September 2017 <span class="apple-converted-space">21:00 UTC</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">21 October 2017 12:00 UTC </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">28 October– 3 November ICANN Meeting)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">30 November 2017  21:00UTC                                                       </span></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-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="MsoNoSpacing" 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></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">16 February 2017 at 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">11-16 March 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">20 April 2017 21:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">18 May 2017 12:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">26-29 June 2017 (ICANN MEETING)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; background-color:rgb(204,204,204)">28 October– 3 November (ICANN Meeting)</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>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Nathalie</span></p>
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