​The speculation in this thread about how this decision was arrived at is incorrect.

ICANN developed a plan with 3 options (A = no disruption, B = moderate disruption, C = significant disruption) for changing the ICANN54 schedule to add more time for Accountability-related meetings.  This was not requested (as far as I know) by the CCWG Co-Chairs and certainly not by the AC/SO leaders.  As far as I know, the impetus for this came from within ICANN.  (The AC/SO leaders are the Chairs of each AC, SO, Stakeholder Group, Constituency and RALO.)​  The Chairs were given several days in which to confer with the stakeholders they represent in order to assess which option(s) they might find acceptable.  

After that, the call Mathieu mentioned took place.  In addition to AC/SO/SG/C/RALO Chairs, the call included the co-chairs of the CCWG, CWG and ICG and members of ICANN staff.

Greg

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na> wrote:
Well,

I am an Observer to the ccNSO's Program Comittee.  As such, I have
indeed observed that Transition related activities take up a
significant amount of the time of the two days of the ccNSO meeting.

So James' statement, below, when read in itself, without context, is
not false.

But, it has nothing to do with springing today's surprise which
would, in fact, make it worse, because these related events
clashing.


greetings, el


On 2015-10-13 12:45, James Gannon wrote:
> I’m not Mathieu but I know that the ACSO leadership were
> involved as changing the ICNN54 schedule to have a greater focus
> on CCWG activities required a change in the scheduled events for
> each of the Acs and Sos, so there will be items removed from the
> current schedule in order to free up spaces for the CCWG to be
> attended by members and participants from the various parts of the
> community.
>
> -jg
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