Dear All, A reminder of the new requirement approved by the Board that all documents for consideration by the Governmental Advisory Committee shall be available 15 working days prior to the beginning of the Sydney meeting on 21 June 2009, and all other documents shall be available 10 working days prior to the beginning of the Sydney meeting. This will apply to motions before Council. The full text is below: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-21may09.htm Approval of Recommendations from Public Participation Committee regarding Meetings Document Deadlines Whereas the Board requested the Public Participation Committee to develop a plan for ensuring that all major meeting material be available at least two calendar weeks in advance of meetings, starting with Sydney; Whereas the Public Participation Committee has found that deadlines for the publication of input documents before ICANN's international public meetings need to be phased in over multiple meetings; Resolved (2009-05-21-15) that documents for consideration by the Governmental Advisory Committee shall be available 15 working days prior to the beginning of the Sydney meeting on 21 June 2009, and all other documents shall be available 10 working days prior to the beginning of the Sydney meeting. Resolved (2009-05-21-16) that the Public Participation Committee shall review the experiences gathered with this meeting, and propose an operational policy based on these experiences to the Board, to become effective for the Seoul International Meeting. All Board members present unanimously approved of these resolutions Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org