See below - please provide any feedback to Kurt regarding proposed teleconference for strategic planning : From: Kurt Pritz Dear All: As part of its strategic planning process ICANN recently posted an issues paper describing areas of concern and focus voiced by the ICANN community (http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-13sep06.htm). The issues paper was developed through consultations at the ICANN meeting in Marrakech and through other forums. Based upon those consultations and feedback received since that time, ICANN plans to write a draft Strategic Plan for presentation at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Sao Paulo. In order to accomplish that, a draft Strategic Plan, based on the issues paper and the input described above will be released in the next week. In order to obtain meaningful feedback on the draft plan, ICANN plans to hold consultations about the draft plan by teleconference in the near future. The consultations will be public; effort will be made to take comments in selected languages if requests for that are made. Multiple consultations will be held to accommodate schedules and time zones. We plan that the consultation will occur the week of 2 November (although the consultation can take place the following week). With your permission, we will take the liberty of establishing times for the call after receiving some guidance from you on how participation can best be solicited from the supporting organisation or advisory committee that you are associated with (i.e., through an existing mailing list, through an announcement from you, or some other means). Please contact me directly with potential timing and also with suggestions you may have about meeting format. Thanks in advance with you efforts concerning this. Sincerely, Kurt Kurt Pritz ICANN 4676 Admiralty Way, #330 Marina del Rey, California USA