[EC-NCSG] Fwd: Decision Re SO-AC High-Interest Topic Session in London

[Rafik Dammak]

Hello,

proposals from GAC to have sessions open to the rest of community for
London meeting  e.g. open forum
any suggestion about day/time?

Best Regards,

Rafik

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Date: 2014-05-24 7:59 GMT+09:00
Subject: RE: Decision Re SO-AC High-Interest Topic Session in London
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Dear fellow SO/AC leaders,



The GAC is planning to hold a couple of sessions with the community in the
future and I would really appreciate your thoughts and feedback on timing
and approach:



1.  ?Geographic Names?



The GAC would like to arrange for a session with community in London to
consider the topic of geo names in the planning of future gTLD application
rounds.  This work is led in the GAC by Argentina as part of a sub-group
focused on geo names that is located within a working group on the topic of
gTLD issues for future rounds.



In view of the tight scheduling for us all in London, I would appreciate
your input on preferred time slots ? or time slots to avoid ? for this
session from your perspective.  In practice, I believe Wednesday AM or
Thursday early AM are the overall options.  Your assistance in defining the
slots more precisely would be greatly appreciated in order to avoid
scheduling conflicts (to the extent possible) for London participants
interested in the above session.





2.  ?GAC Open Forum?



The aim of the forum is to explain how the GAC works and how GAC Members
prepare on a national level for a GAC meeting (not to explain a particular
communiqu?).  The idea is to get outside of the GAC room, be interactive,
and have lots of opportunity for questions.  This work is led by Sweden in
the GAC, following a recommendation from ATRT2, and is also the result of
the positive experience with GAC participation in the ICANN Open Forum at
the IGF in Indonesia last year.



The GAC was planning to hold an open forum in London but this is looking
increasingly difficult schedule.  In any event, such an information session
is aimed at the community, so your guidance on timing and/or approach would
be greatly appreciated.



 Many thanks all,

Heather Dryden
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