[council] Extra day
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.
crg at isoc-cr.org
Thu Mar 10 13:32:18 UTC 2016
Thank you Rubens. My comments below
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> I fully support Donna's position that we should reject this idea and
> focus most days of a B meeting on policy.
Yes, if the “policy” meetings are effective internal (open)
WORKING-G meetings, instead of bilateral or multilateral “exchange”
meetings
> If ICANN is also doing outreach, those tracks could run side-by-side
> instead of outreach taking an amount of days (even if only 1) and
> leaving the others day to policy.
Or left for the longer meetings.
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> I also have to take exception with adding extra days; for those
> traveling from distant regions, travel affordability is tied to
> booking flights and hotels many months in advance. When days are added
> before or after a meeting, what happens is that those that already
> booked end up either incurring in costs or missing the added sessions.
> One of the good outcomes of the new meeting strategy was we
> committing to a fixed schedule, and this is now at risk.
If Plan B not effective for advancing policy WORK, then we will spend
more time flying and money in less transparent individual F2F meetings
Carlos Raul
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