RE: [council] RE: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face Meeting

Mike,

To be clear, Staff did not initiate this request. We are responding to the STI’s request to consider organizing a face to face meeting to facilitate achievement of a consensus in the short time framework requested by the Board.

We agree that the GNSO Council should be prioritizing the work at hand and have been working with the Vice Chairs to develop a methodology to do this. However, until this is done, the STI project is one of the projects that is a high priority as it affects the implementation details for the new gTLDs. As a result, it is appropriate for Staff to decide whether incurring these costs is useful to assist the Community in coming to closure on a response to the Board letter in a timely manner. We will likely schedule this meeting if the consensus of the STI group is that such a meeting will be useful, and the costs of doing so are reasonable and within our budgetary constraints.

Best Regards,

Margie

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Margie Milam

Senior Policy Counselor

ICANN

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Perhaps Margie could give us staff's perspective on this?

Thanks,

Stéphane

Le 12 nov. 2009 à 16:50, Mike Rodenbaugh a écrit :

Again I am concerned that staff is organizing a resource-intensive F2F meeting without a request for same from Council. Again copying the Council list.

The PPSC-WT is also trying to do this simultaneously. The Council ought to be prioritizing these resources across all our work, it ought not be done by Staff and various WGs in silos.

Mike Rodenbaugh

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From: owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margie Milam
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:07 PM
To: GNSO STI
Cc: Marilyn Vernon
Subject: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face Meeting

Dear All,

I checked into the possibility of a face to face meeting for the STI group, funded by ICANN, to facilitate resolution of the outstanding issues and the efforts to gain a consensus on an alternative proposal.   We are exploring the feasibility of this request, and wanted to get some information from you to assess the costs of doing this on a relatively short notice.

Specifically, we would try to pick a location to minimize the travel costs for the participants, and would likely pick an inexpensive locale in a central location.

Do we have an idea of when to schedule the meeting?   We assume that it would be sometime between now and mid-December.   Rather than have a discussion on the list, please email our administrative assistant, Marilyn Vernon, with days that you would be unavailable between now and mid-December.   She is cc’d on this email.   Please let her know your location as well.

Best regards,

Margie

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Margie Milam

Senior Policy Counselor

ICANN

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