**Note additional holidays added below, none which conflict with the suggested meetings.

From: Terri Agnew <terri.agnew@icann.org>
Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 at 10:22 AM
To: "council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org>
Cc: GNSO-Secs <gnso-secs@icann.org>
Subject: Proposed GNSO Council dates & times 2025

Dear GNSO Council,

Welcome to the GNSO Council!

Please see the suggested dates and times for 2025 Council meetings. Times and meeting rotation are suggested in function of the current locations of the Council Leadership team and members of the council.

We encouraged you to check the dates against your national and/or religious holidays. We have considered those which could conflict with Council meeting dates (Thursdays, generally the 2^nd or the 3^rd of the month). Please have a look and check against your own calendars to see if there are any adjustments to make. If no comments on dates/times listed below, we will send calendar invites out next week.

Current 2024 Meeting date and time:

• 19 December at 21:00 UTC

Suggested 2025 Meeting dates and times:

We have kept the three council meeting times as they still seem to work for the current council of 05:00, 13:00 and 21:00 UTC. (exception for the ICANN tri-annual meetings)

• 09 January 2025 at 05:00 UTC
• 13 February 2025 at 21:00 UTC
• 12 March 2025 – ICANN82 at 13:15 local time (Seattle)
• 10 April 2025 at 21:00 UTC
• 15 May 2025 at 05:00 UTC
• 11 June 2025 - ICANN83 at 13:15 local time (Prague)
• 10 July 2025 at 13:00 UTC
• 14 August 2025 at 21:00 UTC

• 18 September 2025 at 05:00 UTC
• 29 October 2025 - ICANN84 at 13:15 local time (Muscat)
• 13 November 2025 at 13:00 UTC
• 11 December 2025 21:00 UTC

Holiday and/or events considered:

Chinese New Year: 29 January – 02 February 2025

Ramadan: 29 February – 29 March 2025

IETF 122: 15 - 21 March 2025

Passover: 12 – 20 April 2025

INTA: 17 – 21 May 2025

Shavuot: 01-03 June 2025

IETF 123: 19-25 July 2025

Rosh Hashana: 22 – 24 September 2025

Yom Kippur: 01 – 02 October 2025

IETF 124: 1-7 November 2025

Hanukkah 14 – 22 December 2025

Thank you!

Kind regards,

Terri

Policy Team Supporting the GNSO