Hello Bart Boswinkel, I am sending this note AFTER the meeting, but this was intended to be raised as a suggestion under "any other business". As an introductory statement to the ALAC comments on the 3rd Revison of the Draft Implementation Plan http://bit.ly/idnmeeting the following was stated: "With the view to expeditiously complete the IDN related tasks, it is proposed that ICANN incorporates in its agenda for the Seoul meeting a full day of meetings to focus on IDNs, scheduled as inter‐constituency meetings attended by invited experts, staff and finance committees to resolve all pending issues related to IDN Policy and pave the way for implementation." This has also been mentioned at an ALAC meeting, though not formally discussed nor voted upon as an ALAC suggestion. The suggestion is to have inter-constituency meetings during Seoul where ccNSO, GNSO and its commercial and non-commercial constituencies, GAC, ALAC, SSAC as also Board Representatives, Staff designated for IDNs, finance and administration committees, IETF, external advisory / support groups, IDN user groups otherwise not part of the ICANN organization and invited experts could all gather together in one room on a suitable day during the Seoul Meeting to discuss all pending issues related to IDN implementation. The purpose is to bring together view points from the different constituencies / support organizations / experts to reconcile the most important issues that could consume time if discussed in different rooms. The inter-constituency meetings could be visualized as happening in the main room on a certain day (or half - a - day) which is relatively a light day for most constituencies, who could also be free to concurrently have their sessions on any other topic that may require to be discussed within their constituencies, but after assigning enough responsible participants to the proposed inter-constituency meetings. This could also be an opportunity for various IDN working groups to report on their work for consolidation. Thank you Sivasubramanian Muthusamy ALAC IDN Liaison. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel@icann.org>wrote:

Dear all, Included is proposed agenda for today’s call. As this is first meeting, the suggested focus of the call is on administrative matters.

1. Welcome and agenda bashing 2. Selection of chair for WG + alternate chair from members of the WG 3. Deliverable Seoul meeting (WG Topic Paper*). 4. WG working method 5. Working Group meeting schedule 6. AOB 7. Closure

* WG Topic Paper The WG shall publish for public consultation a Topic Paper on the topics and issues, which in the view of the WG need to be taken into consideration to propose a feasible policy for the selection and delegation of IDN ccTLDs (the Issues)..... The consultation should include a public discussion with the relevant stakeholders at a designated ICANN meeting.

Kind regards, Bart