FYI ­ Call for volunteers for the GNSO PDP Working Group on the New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures will remain open till 25 Feb 2016. If interested in joining, please fill in the sign up form <http://goo.gl/forms/FRNZ4pSQl9> OR fill in the PDF document <http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/new-gtlds/subsequent-procedures-pdp-27jan16 -en.pdf> [PDF, 76 KB] and send it to the GNSO Secretariat <mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> . The first PDP Working Group will most likely to be held on Thu 25 Feb at 16:00 UTC. Best Regards, Ariel From: <gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Steve Chan via Gnso-newgtld-wg <gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org> Reply-To: Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org> Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:33 PM To: theo geurts <gtheo@xs4all.nl>, Ken Stubbs <kstubbs@afilias.info>, Jeff Neuman <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com>, Harold <harold.arcos@gmail.com>, Vanda Scartezini <vanda@scartezini.org>, Vanda Scartezini via Gnso-newgtld-wg <gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] First Call? Dear WG Members, Welcome to all of those who have signed up to the WG already and we appreciate your enthusiasm in initiating discussions. Staff has consulted with Paul McGrady, the Council liaison and interim chair, and identified a proposed date and time for the first WG meeting, which is Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 16:00 UTC. As the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP is anticipated to be a topic of broad community interest, we thought it would be beneficial to allow the call for volunteers to remain open for a period of approximately three weeks. Going forward from that initial meeting, the WG may want to identify a different day of the week and time(s) that may be more convenient for members. Unless this proposed time proves widely problematic, we will work with the GNSO Secretariat to have meeting invitations sent to members in the near future. In terms of staff participation, it is indeed expected that a number of staff, including from the teams led by the folks Jeff mentioned, will at a minimum follow the mailing list, if not actively participate in WG discussions. And to the discussion between Mirilia and Michele, the reason for targeting the end of February for the first meeting was to allow for adequate time for potential members to sign up before the WG begins discussions. However, as Michele noted, signing up after the WG starts is possible. Best, Steve