Hello all: Please be advised that the Council is now planning the Washington DC meeting on Feb 24. I suggest that NCUC consider choosing among Kathy, Franny, Milton, and the its reps on the Council. I am voluntaring to participate (but of course not alone), and the cost for the trip etc. in my case would be around $600. A quick answer is needed; more we take time higher will be the cost (very few seats are now available on the flights at the current price). Regards, Mawaki --- Bruce Tonkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Subject: [council] Regarding meeting in Washington, DC - Friday > 24 Feb and Saturday 25 Feb > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:00:40 +1100 > From: "Bruce Tonkin" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > Hello All, > > As agreed during our teleconference on 6 Feb 2006, the meeting in > Washington will be for the Committee working on the new gTLD policy > development process. The Committee is of the whole Council, but > where a > Council member cannot attend, they may nominate another person from > their constituency to participate. The constituency/Council > member > should inform the GNSO Secretariat of such a nomination prior to > the > meeting. > > I am hoping that Olof will be able to at least have a draft Initial > Report that summarises the constituency input, the papers that have > been > submitted in response to our call for papers, and the public > comments > submitted via the ICANN website. > > The aim of the meeting will be to consider this report and identify > areas of consensus. > > We are essentially operating under the provisions of section 8(b) > and > 8(c), of Annex A of the ICANN bylaws. > > One thing we did not cover in the Council call, was whether to hold > an > open public forum. Given that there were a few Council members > that > were against this idea, and also given the additional logistics and > costs of arranging such a forum, I suggest instead that we follow > up on > our call for papers on 3 January 2006: > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan06.htm . In > that > call for papers we stated: "Received papers will be considered for > oral > presentations to the GNSO Council during February 2006, via > scheduled > conference calls with the GNSO Council." > > We could simply set up a conference bridge to allow selected > authors of > papers to call-in, and where cost is an issue we can call-out to > appropriate people. > > Please let me know if you agree with this approach, and also please > identify any particular papers where you think it would be > beneficial > for the author to present a summary of the paper orally and respond > to > questions. I will also ask Olof to review the received papers with > this > in mind. Glen can then contact the authors and see who may be > available (we may have to schedule time appropriate to the time > zones > of the authors). > > I think it is important to ensure future substantial contributions > to > the policy development process, that the Committee gives > significant > attention to considering these submissions - and doesn't simply > rely on > reading a staff summary. > > > Regards, > Bruce Tonkin > > > >