[council] Status of meeting planning for Feb 2006 in Washington

[Anthony Harris]

How about having it in Buenos Aires ?
Cant think of a city with lower overall prices...

Tony Harris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ute Decker" <Ute.Decker at ifpi.org>
To: "Thomas Keller" <tom at schlund.de>; "Bruce Tonkin" 
<Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
Cc: <council at gnso.icann.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:33 AM
Subject: RE: [council] Status of meeting planning for Feb 2006 in Washington


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> Bruce, Tom, all,
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> I will likely not attend in DC, but could of course attend a meeting in
> Frankfurt. No objections to 21 Feb (and around).
>
> Ute
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Keller [mailto:tom at schlund.de]
> Sent: 24 January 2006 08:45
> To: Bruce Tonkin
> Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [council] Status of meeting planning for Feb 2006 in
> Washington
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> Bruce, all,
>
> how about relocating the meeting to Frankfurt. I haven't ask but I'm
> sure DENIC would certainly provide us with a meeting accomodation.
> The DENIC headquarter is about 15 Minutes away from the airport and
> in walking reach of several adequate hotels.
>
> Best,
>
> tom
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> Am 24.01.2006 schrieb Bruce Tonkin:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The topic of a physical meeting on gtlds in Feb 2006 is on the agenda
>> for our next Council meeting on 6 Feb 2006.
>>
>> However if we want to do this, we need to make progress in making
>> arrangements prior to our scheduled conference call.
>>
>> Purpose of meeting
>> ==================
>> - using the initial report on new gtlds from the ICANN staff - carry
> out
>> further drafting work on a policy position
>> - if the Council decides to progress on additional policy issues
>> identified in the issues report requested at the last meeting - carry
>> out further work to complete constituency position statements and
> begin
>> to draft proposed policies
>> - provide an opportunity for any additional public comment on the
>> reports published so far
>>
>> Given the need to work more quickly on substantive policy issues, a
>> physical meeting may assist progress.
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>> Location of meeting
>> ===================
>> - the Washington region has several major gtld registries and
> registrars
>> - it is easy to travel to from most locations in the Northern
> Hemisphere
>> - we have local contacts that can assist with logistics
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>> Planning so far
>> ===============
>> - current date under consideration is around 21 Feb 2006
>> - locations under consideration include
>>   -- at a location in the city of Washington, DC itself
>>   -- or at a location near Dulles airport, Washington
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>> A location in Washington, DC may be appropriate for any further public
>> comment/dialog on the policy issues and may get press coverage with
>> respect to encouraging further contributions with respect to new
> gtlds.
>> Marilyn Cade has volunteered to investigate this option further.
>>
>> A location near the airport - will most likely make it far cheaper in
>> terms of accommodation costs, and probably easier to find available
>> accommodation at short notice.  This might be a better location for
> the
>> planning meetings.   Maybe a registry or registrar in the area may be
>> able to host a drafting meeting.
>>
>> It is possible that a combination of both might work best.  E.g one
>> morning or afternoon in the downtime area, and the rest of the time
> near
>> the airport.
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>> Participation
>> ============
>> - given that many Council members will be planning to attend the ICANN
>> meeting in New Zealand in March, and may not have sufficient time or
>> budgets to also travel to Washington, I recommend we allow each
>> constituency to appoint 3 representatives (which do not need to be
>> Council members) to represent the position of the constituency in
>> Washington.  I expect that most constituencies will have members
> within
>> a reasonable radius of Washington.
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>>
>> Further input needed
>> =====================
>>
>> I am interested to hear from Council members regarding any issues
> around
>> the proposed date (21 Feb 2006) - ie whether there are clashes with
>> other major international meetings etc, and also any preferences
>> regarding meeting near Dulles airport near Washington, or in the city
>> itself.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bruce Tonkin
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> Gruss,
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> tom
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