Proposed NCSG Statement of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group to the Proposed Dates for ICANN Public Meetings 2024-2028 and Revised Dates in 2022 Draft Report
Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi
oreoluwa at WTEC.ORG.NG
Mon Feb 10 10:52:34 EET 2020
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.
I have noted this in the Google Docs.
Kind regards,
Ore
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On 10/02/2020 2:11 pm, Joan katambi wrote:
> Thanks Caleb.
>
> Regards
> Joan
>
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 1:10 AM Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com
> <mailto:rafik.dammak at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> thanks Caleb for the input, we will try to include those comments
> to the draft.
>
> Best.
>
> Rafik
>
> Le ven. 7 févr. 2020 à 13:58, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele
> <muyiwacaleb at gmail.com <mailto:muyiwacaleb at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> Hello Joan, Muriel and Rafik,
>
> 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.
>
> However, see this as a contribution from NPOC members to this
> comment. Please find below some observations from our members.
>
> 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.
> Further observations are stated below :
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Some of their *recommendations* include the following :
>
> 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.
> 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.
> 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
> 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.
> 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.
>
>
>
> Caleb Ogundele
>
> ________________
>
> Sent with thumbs from a small screen mobile device.
>
> Pelase exsuce typos adn errosr.
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 5:01 PM Rafik Dammak
> <rafik.dammak at gmail.com <mailto:rafik.dammak at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Joan for the draft.
> @all please review the comment. it is quite short and it
> is about sharing any concerns about the ICANN meeting
> suggested dates.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
> Le ven. 7 févr. 2020 à 00:43, Joan katambi
> <joanhopek at gmail.com <mailto:joanhopek at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> Dear NCSG,
>
> 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.
>
> comments and suggestions are well come till 8th
> February 2020.
>
> We created this google doc to be used during the
> drafting:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGOp3xTZy89XwLy8vtljJzy4_zmE4z9fVMtwl5awaeI/edit?folder=0AMJI0CB4QegiUk9PVA
>
> Regards
> Katambi Joan
>
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