Dear Nathalie, all, I have no objections to the updated list of dates. Best wishes, and happy Thanksgiving weekend to those celebrating, Heather ________________________________ From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org <owner-council@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 9:13:48 PM To: Nathalie Peregrine; council@gnso.icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: [council] RE: Request for input: GNSO Council meeting dates 2017 Nathalie I don't see any obvious issues for me with any of the proposed dates / times. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains http://www.blacknight.host/ http://blacknight.blog/ http://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 ________________________________ From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [owner-council@gnso.icann.org] on behalf of Nathalie Peregrine [nathalie.peregrine@icann.org] Sent: 20 November 2016 15:07 To: council@gnso.icann.org Cc: gnso-secs@icann.org Subject: [council] Request for input: GNSO Council meeting dates 2017 Dear all, Staff has put together the following date proposals for the GNSO Council meetings in 2017, based on the principle of the third Thursday of the month, as scheduled previous years. 19 January 2017 at 21:00 UTC 16 February 2017 at 12:00 UTC 11-16 March 2017 (ICANN MEETING) 20 April 2017 21:00 UTC 18 May 2017 12:00 UTC 26-29 June 2017 (ICANN MEETING) 20 July 2017 21:00 UTC 31 August 2017: 12:00 UTC 28 September 2017 21:00 UTC 21 October 2017 12:00 UTC 28 October– 3 November ICANN Meeting) 30 November 2017 21:00UTC 21 December 2017 12:00 UTC The main issues are with the above list are: * The 21 October is too close to the 28 October so suggestion would be to advance the 21th to the 12th October. * This would make it too close to the 28th September, so this meeting would need to be advanced too. * To avoid conflict with Rosh Hashanah (Thursday 21 September) we propose to have a meeting exceptionally on Wednesday 20 September (replacing the 28th September) Updated list would read as: 19 January 2017 at 21:00 UTC 16 February 2017 at 12:00 UTC 11-16 March 2017 (ICANN MEETING) 20 April 2017 21:00 UTC 18 May 2017 12:00 UTC 26-29 June 2017 (ICANN MEETING) 20 July 2017 21:00 UTC 31 August 2017: 12:00 UTC 20 September 2017 21:00 UTC 12 October 2017 12:00 UTC 28 October– 3 November (ICANN Meeting) 30 November 2017 21:00UTC 21 December 2017 12:00 UTC We welcome all input from councilors prior to publishing these dates to the GNSO website and mailing lists. Kind regards Nathalie