Hi, Yes, but it seems to be a hammer that is being used in many places where on first blush one would not think it applicable. So I wanted to be clear about it not being applied to GNSO council motions. BTW, note that the Board imposed deadlines were working days, while our deadline is calendar days. There are only 12 working days til Sydney (or is that 11) - GAC deadline has passed. The other Board deadline is this week. Whereas, there are 13 calendar days (or 10 regulation workdays) until the outside most date for motions for the council meeting. Nonetheless, the sooner the better for anyone working on a motion. thanks a. On 3 Jun 2009, at 11:29, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
I agree, I did not take this to apply to motions but only to documents submitted for the GAC's consideration (reports for example).
Stéphane
Le 03/06/09 14:00, « Gomes, Chuck » <cgomes@verisign.com> a écrit :
It is not clear to me that this applies to motions. In fact, a case can be made that it does not because the motions the Board acts on in its meeting are for the most part made within 24 hours of their meeting.
Chuck
-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Glen de Saint Géry Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:21 AM To: Council GNSO Subject: [council] Document Deadlines
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