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    <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">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.</font></font></p>
    <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Regards, <br>
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    <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin</font></font><br>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject:
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            <td>[council] DRAFT GNSO Block Schedule for ICANN59</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th>
            <td>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:32:34 +0000</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Austin, Donna <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Donna.Austin@neustar.biz"><Donna.Austin@neustar.biz></a></td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th>
            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org"><council@gnso.icann.org></a></td>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hi Everyone
            (apologies for the long email)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">As you are probably
            aware there are a few activities going on in preparation for
            the ICANN 59 Policy Forum meeting in Johannesburg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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,
          </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Donna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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