[NCSG-PC] Fwd: [council] DRAFT GNSO Block Schedule for ICANN59

[Stephanie Perrin]

WE have just received the block schedule for the Johannesburg meeting.  
Members may wish to go over it prior to the NCSG prep call next week on 
the 18th.

Regards,

Stephanie Perrin



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Subject: 	[council] DRAFT GNSO Block Schedule for ICANN59
Date: 	Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:32:34 +0000
From: 	Austin, Donna <Donna.Austin at neustar.biz>
To: 	council at gnso.icann.org <council at gnso.icann.org>



Hi Everyone (apologies for the long email)

As you are probably aware there are a few activities going on in 
preparation for the ICANN 59 Policy Forum meeting in Johannesburg.

On one level there are a number of SO/AC representatives participating 
in the Planning Committee that is convened by the ICANN Organisation. 
Separately, the GNSO Leadership Team have been working with staff to 
develop a GNSO related schedule, which is attached.

Given the GNSO has a number of PDP WGs currently underway, we are 
affording the requirements of those efforts priority and we are trying 
to ensure that no two WGs will be scheduled at the same time. In 
addition, the RDS PDP WG and the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG 
(you might recall Jeff and Avri forecasting this in Copenhagen—they want 
to have a substantive discussion with the community about geographic 
names) will be submitting requests for cross-community discussions or 
high interest topics that have the potential to take up 5 of the 8 
currently allocated slots.

The Planning Committee will be considering topics for cross-community 
discussion next week and I am anticipating resistance to the slots 
requested by the two WGs. It would be greatly appreciated if you could 
encourage your representatives on the Planning Committee to support the 
submissions from the WGs because they are important to progressing the 
PDP WG efforts and require interaction with the community beyond those 
on the WGs. And after all—this is a Policy Forum meeting.

We will start engaging your respective Stakeholder Groups and 
Constituencies regarding individual meeting requests in the near future, 
once we have some other information confirmed, for example, the number 
of rooms the GNSO will have available for other meetings and what 
services will be available. But I would ask that you respect the 
priority we have afforded to the PDP WGs given that this meeting is a 
Policy Forum, it is only four days, we will have fewer options for 
rooms, and we would like to see bums on seats in the PDP WG sessions.

Happy to answer any questions folks might have and we will let you know 
when we better understand what services will be available to us in 
Johannesburg.

Thanks

Donna

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