[registrars] GNSO Meeting announcement on ICANN strategic plan - Amsterdam, Feb 7-8, 2005

[Bruce Tonkin]

Meeting to develop comments on ICANN Strategic Plan Amsterdam, 7-8
February 2005


The presently posted ICANN Strategic Plan outlines the strategic
directions for ICANN for a three year period. Like all strategy
documents, it needs to be analyzed and understood in conjunction with
other relevant documents, such as the ICANN budget. It provides insight
into changes in ICANN's scope, scale, funding base, and activities. It
helps to position ICANN for a post-WSIS and post-MOU world with an
increased  budget, regional offices, an extensive workshop initiative,
and outreach activities to developing countries. Other changes include a
proposed shift of funding from reliance on registrars as the primary
aggregators of funds to a more centralized collection via the
registries, with an increase in the amount of money collected per domain
name, in order to provide a stable foundation for ICANN.

The Strategic Plan, as drafted, creates the same kind of scope and scale
of change that the Evolution and Reform Process did, and deserves full
consideration and review by the community.

MEETING NOTICE

The gNSO Council has approved the organization of a meeting to develop
comments on the ICANN Strategic Plan by interested attendees from the
constituencies.
 The meeting may also include guests from the At Large, other SOs or the
community who have indicated an interest in attending.

The purpose of the meeting is to ensure that the constituencies of the
gNSO/liaisons have an opportunity to review, analyze, and develop
comments on the ICANN Strategic Plan. This meeting does not replace the
opportunity for any individual, or any constituency to post ongoing
comments during the ICANN public comment process.
www.icann.org/strategic-plan/strategic-plan.html  -- this link provides
information on the Strategic Plan, and how to submit individual
comments.
NOTE: Comments are due February 28, 2005.

 The ICANN staff has also indicated their plans to offer teleconferences
with each constituency, and this meeting is not intended to replace that
consultation.

Details of the Meeting: February 7-8, in Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Sheraton at the Airport.

Provisional Agenda:

Monday, February 7: 1:00 p.m. -  5.30pm.

Overview of Strategic Plan by ICANN staff Presentation/Comments by
scheduled contributors Open Mike for participants for further comments
Adjourn

Small volunteer teams to work Monday evening to synthesize comments
received.

Tuesday, February 8, 8:30-12:30 p.m.

 8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Presentation of comments received/contributions
from Monday's session by small working teams.
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Consolidation of contributions.
12:30 p.m.  Adjourn

Space is presently scheduled for 50-60 attendees for both meetings, on a
first-come, first-served basis. We will make reasonable efforts to
address additional requests to attend, should we have over-subscription.

You can register for the meeting by sending an email to Glen de St.
Gery, gnso.secretariat[at] gnso.icann.org.  Be sure to indicate which
day/or both that you will attend. If you cannot attend in person, but
want to dial in, please advise Glen of which days you will want to
participate. We expect to offer dial in on 2/7 for the portion of the
meeting that involves presentations and are exploring dial in for
February 8 in terms of ensuring that remote participants can hear
effectively and participate.

If you would like to prepare a submission or comments to present during
Day One of the meeting, please let Glen know.  There will be a deadline
for submitting at least an outline of your talking points if you wish to
make a presentation, so that the schedule can be managed, and materials
posted to those who are participating remotely.

Contributions in this segment on day 1 can be short statements,
proposals for changes in particular segments of the Strategic Plan; or
suggestions on how to achieve a particular outcome described in the
Strategic Plan.
Comments from the participants in attendance will be accommodated as
well, but to have the full scope of your contribution understood and
incorporated, providing written comments will help those attempting to
capture your contribution and incorporate it.

For purpose of finalizing the agenda and plans, a small group of
councilors from the gNSO are working together. You can provide comments
and suggestions to them by emailing the gNSO Secretariat, as noted
above.

We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam.

Marilyn Cade