[council] Extra day

[Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.]

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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