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Marilyn and Glen
Happy
to assist as I am able from such a distance
A
simple question
Have
we settled on a hotel and are you guys going to hold a certain number of
accommodation rooms or do we book direct - either way, can you let us know so
that people can get bookings made
Thanks
Grant Forsyth -----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marilyn Cade Sent: Tuesday, 18 January, 2005 09:12 To: Gnso. Secretariat; GNSO Council Cc: marilynscade@xxxxxxxxxxx; Bruce Tonkin; Kurt Pritz; Paul Verhoef; Barbara Roseman; Denise Michel; Mark McFadden Subject: [council] MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT - CONSTITUTENCY MEETING ON ICANN STRATEGIC PLAN - AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 7-8, 2005 Dear colleagues,
I would welcome hearing from
other Councilors who might join a small planning team all to advance finalizing
of the provisional agenda, noted below. Please reply offlist to me, and to Glen
regarding your interest. I’ve already had a volunteer or two and greatly
appreciate those offers of planning and organizing
assistance. Regarding the meeting
notice: Glen will be posting this notice to the liaison list. If you can
also encourage distribution within your constituencies, that would be much
appreciated. Please email me and Glen with questions. We are still
finalizing with the hotel arrangements, but want to advance the program agenda
as well as quickly as possible. Regards, Marilyn
Cade --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting to develop comments on
ICANN Strategic Plan 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 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
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 Marilyn Cade |