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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Apologies for sending this in late. I
just noticed that the Easter weekend of 2027 starts the day after
the end of the Community Forum, which might be a problem for
people who celebrate Easter.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have noted this in the Google Docs.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Kind regards,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ore</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/02/2020 2:11 pm, Joan katambi
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<div>Thanks Caleb.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>Joan<br>
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<div>thanks Caleb for the input, we will try to include
those comments to the draft.</div>
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<div>Best.</div>
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<div>Rafik</div>
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à 13:58, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <<a
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<div dir="auto">Hello Joan, Muriel and Rafik,
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<div dir="auto">Tried to access the document but
having troubles with the Google doc app on my phone
so will post directly here on behalf of some NPOC
members who have raised some valid concerns. </div>
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<div dir="auto">However, see this as a contribution
from NPOC members to this comment. Please find below
some observations from our members. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Some of the the dates do not put into
consideration some religious concerns. Such concerns
such as Ramadan, sukkot/Shmini Atzeret /Dawil for
other years. </div>
<div dir="auto">Further observations are stated below
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<p>The main observations are that in moving the AGM
Meeting from Late October/Early November in an
effort to put several weeks distance between the
IETF and the ICANN Meetings, they have created
conflicts with Jewish Religious Holidays where
there had been none and also conflicts with DIWALI
and other holidays. This time, late October/early
November is usually a good time free of conflicts
and moving it up the middle of October runs into
many conflicts. While it would be desirable not to
have the ICANN meetings so close to the IETF ones,
moving ICANN meeting dates up appear to disregard
important holidays and religious days. In any
event, IETF meeting attendees tend to travel
immediately from the ICANN meeting to the IETF
Meeting as they have done in the past.</p>
<p>2) the March Meetings in 2024 and 2026 these are
in conflict with the celebration of Ramadan. ICANN
Org needs to understand and note this conflict<br>
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<p>3) There is a special call for attention to the
Public Comments and statements ICANN has made in
the Multistakeholder Model Plan where they
acknowledge the difficulty in getting new people
to join and engage within ICANN and to increase
the diversity of participants. The
Multistakeholder Model Work Plan takes note of a
concern about whether ICANN has developed pathways
to enable effective participation. One of the more
practical ways for ICANN to facilitate
participation is for ICANN Org, to be more aware
of and to avoid clashing with important holidays
and religious days observed by volunteers who work
countless hours to improve ICANN’s
multistakeholder advisory work. By avoiding these
dates as much as possible it is showing all
volunteers that ICANN ORG understands their
concerns and does its best to avoid conflicts.</p>
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<div dir="auto">Some of their <b>recommendations</b>
include the following :<br>
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<div dir="auto">For September 2022, we suggest that
these meeting dates be moved a full two or three
weeks later, at the end of October when the AGM
has traditionally occurred in order to avoid
clashing with a Jewish Holiday.</div>
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<div dir="auto">For October 2024, it is unclear why
we are having the AGM during these dates when they
conflict both with a Jewish Holiday and with the
EURO IX forum. Moving these by one week would be
considered ideal. Having the meeting start on a
Sunday instead of Saturday would be best as the
Jewish Holidays end the evening of Friday, October
25.</div>
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<div dir="auto">For March 2025, ICANN Org needs to
consider that this meeting conflicts with Ramadan,
which lasts the entire month of March if these
dates are to be retained as is. Passover is
Friday, April 11 and Good Friday is April 18</div>
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<div dir="auto">For March 2026, ICANN Org needs to
consider that this meeting conflicts with Ramadan
which is from February 18-March 19 and moving it
is tricky because of the upcoming Passover and
Easter celebrations, which are Passover (March
31)/Easter periods (Good Friday is April 1). As an
added wrinkle, IETF is from March 14-20.</div>
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<div dir="auto">For October 2027, this meeting falls
during the Jewish Holiday of Sukkot/Shemini
Atzeret (Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly/Simchat
Torah) which could be avoided by moving it two
weeks earlier making it back-to-back with the IETF
meeting.</div>
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5:01 PM Rafik Dammak <<a
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<div>Thanks Joan for the draft.</div>
<div>@all please review the comment. it is quite
short and it is about sharing any concerns about
the ICANN meeting suggested dates.<br>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Rafik</div>
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févr. 2020 à 00:43, Joan katambi <<a
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<div>Dear NCSG, </div>
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Murie
and I worked on a proposed NCSG input to
the Proposed Dates for ICANN Public
Meetings 2024-2028 and Revised Dates in
2022 Draft Report and we would like to
submit it for your review. <br>
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<div>comments and suggestions are well come
till 8th February 2020.</div>
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<div>We created this google doc to be used
during the drafting: </div>
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href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGOp3xTZy89XwLy8vtljJzy4_zmE4z9fVMtwl5awaeI/edit?folder=0AMJI0CB4QegiUk9PVA"
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>Katambi Joan<br>
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