[EC-NCSG] FY 2015 interesessional meeting?

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi Steve,

(cc NCSG EC, Bill Drake and Marie-Laure Lemineur)

Thanks for the email,
We started the discussion , we even discussed about possible dates. it is
unfortunate that we cannot make it for this year.

Yes we can make the budget request for ICANN support  to have the
intercessional meeting for FY2015. I don't recall how we proceeded for the
first intercessional meeting but we can for sure coordinating in order to
ensure the request approval.

For the format and structure, I think the consensus was that we are looking
for more joint working sessions instead of having ICANN staff briefing us,
I mean that is up to us to set the agenda and topics.

Best Regards,

Rafik


2014-02-07 Metalitz, Steven <met at msk.com>:

>  Dear Raifk, Avri and Cintra,
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> I hope this finds all of you well.  I am writing to you as leadership of
> the NCSG.  Of course please forward as appropriate if this question is
> better directed to others in your group.
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> I am writing at the request of the CSG executive committee, to get the
> NCSG?s views on requesting ICANN support (in the upcoming FY 2015 budget
> requests)  for another intersessional meeting of the Non-Contracted Party
> House, probably around the January 2015 time frame.
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> As you know, there was an intersessional in January 2013 at the ICANN
> office in LA.  Many of us in NCSG thought it was a useful initiative, and
> IPC, at least, asked in its FY 2014 budget request for ICANN to support an
> intersessional this year.  That request was denied.  I also recall some
> e-mail traffic a few months ago in which some participants both from CSG
> and NCSG revived the idea of having an intersessional meeting, but we were
> told that ICANN would not provide support for one this fiscal year.
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> If we do wish to see ICANN support an intersessional meeting for our house
> in FY 2015, the budget request process would be one logical vehicle for
> doing so.  Hence this message.  If there is interest within NCSG in
> preparing a joint budget submission on this point, or even in coordinating
> separate budget submissions, now would be the time to do so, since the
> submission deadline is a month away (March 7).   If this is not something
> NCSG would like to pursue this year, then it would also be timely to know
> that.
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> I?ll also note that if we ask for another intersessional, it does not
> necessarily need to be structured and organized the same way as the LA
> intersessional last  year (nor does it necessarily have to happen in
> January again).  We are certainly open to suggestions for improving it.
> But we need to decide soon whether we will ask for one in the regular
> budget cycle this year.
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> Thanks and I look forward to your prompt response.
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> Steve Metalitz, IPC VP and CSG Executive Committee member
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