Dear Cary, Apologies for not responding quicker to your question - it's been pretty hectic meeting various material and payment deadlines the last couple of days. Anyway, as I'm sure you have realized, the ads are now firmly with the respective publications and I trust you and others will find them a useful addition to our efforts of soliciting valuable input. Best regards Olof -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Cary Karp Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:44 PM To: 'GNSO Council' Cc: Marilyn Cade; 'Olof Nordling' Subject: RE: [council] Ad promotion of Call for Papers on new gTLDs
I don't think we ever agreed that someone would read a paper, similar to an academic conference. We were clear that we would provide opportunities for summary presentations/discussions of contributions on some basis.
The call as posted on the ICANN site says: "Received papers will be considered for oral presentations to the GNSO Council during February 2006, via scheduled conference calls with the GNSO Council." If the oral presentations are only to be summary descriptions of the papers and nothing is said about any other mode of publication, why would anyone undertake the time and effort of preparing a "substantive paper"? Any chance of the Council seeing the ad copy before we commit to it? /Cary