[council] Preliminary planning for ICANN58

[Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.]

Thank you James.
But here we are working on the 2nd derivative: ICANN hubs for Policy 
(short) Meetings.
Don´t know if this was also discarded.

Cheers

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On 28 Nov 2016, at 20:34, James M. Bladel wrote:

> Just a note that the Meeting Strategy Working Group examined the idea 
> of “rotating hubs”, and rejected them.  Mostly by folks from 
> smaller and/or more distant locations who were concerned that ICANN 
> would be permanently absent from their region.
>
> I don’t agree, but that was their finding.
>
> Thanks –
>
> J.
>
> On 11/28/16, 11:59 , "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" 
> <michele at blacknight.com> wrote:
>
>     Carlos
>
>     Ah ok, so the ICANN hubs.
>     That makes a lot of sense from a cost and logistics perspective.
>
>     Regards
>
>     Michele
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>     On 28/11/2016, 11:33, "Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G." 
> <crg at isoc-cr.org> wrote:
>
>         ICANN hubs: LA, Istambul and Singapore.
>
>         I assume that those places are central located in terms of 
> airlines
>         logistics, already have a minimum of ICANN staff available, 
> facilites,
>         etc. and would greatly reduce the cost to set up meetings (A 
> recent
>         meeting of the CCT-RT in Washington DC had to fly in as many 
> ICANN staff
>         members as RT members, which calls for more reasonable places 
> to meet,
>         particularly for mainle “working” meetings like the Policy 
> Format
>         calls for).
>
>         Cheers
>
>         Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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>         On 26 Nov 2016, at 10:14, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
>
>         > Carlos
>         >
>         > Which locations would you see as being “hubs”?
>         >
>         > Regards
>         >
>         > Michele
>         >
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