I think it is important to have the Council involved. I would also like to suggest that considering
the expedited nature of the work confronting the STI on behalf of the GNSO it
would on balance make sense to allocate at least some if not the same level of
resource available to the good work undertaken by the IRT. The IRT had two face to face meetings and
several calls in order to work through fairly complex issues and
solutions. The same commitment seems to
be emanating out of the STI. Even if the STI reaches some level of
consensus there may be public comments which may have to be worked through subsequently
and the STI should have the opportunity to provide its input in response to
such comments on the Final Report which were not available to the IRT.
Sincerely,
Zahid Jamil
Barrister-at-law
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From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On
Behalf Of Margie Milam
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:58 PM
To: GNSO Council; mike@rodenbaugh.com
Subject: RE: [council] RE: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face
Meeting
Mike,
To be clear,
Staff did not initiate this request. We are responding to the
STI’s request to consider organizing a face to face meeting to facilitate
achievement of a consensus in the short time framework requested by the
Board.
We agree that the GNSO
Council should be prioritizing the work at hand and have been working
with the Vice Chairs to develop a methodology to do this. However,
until this is done, the STI project is one of the projects that is a high
priority as it affects the implementation details for the new
gTLDs. As a result, it is appropriate for Staff to decide whether
incurring these costs is useful to assist the Community in coming
to closure on a response to the Board letter in a timely manner.
We will likely schedule this meeting if the consensus of the
STI group is that such a meeting will be useful, and the costs of doing so are
reasonable and within our budgetary constraints.
Best Regards,
Margie
_______________
Margie Milam
Senior Policy
Counselor
ICANN
_______________
From: Stéphane Van Gelder [stephane.vangelder@indom.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:16 AM
To: Margie Milam; GNSO Council
Subject: Re: [council] RE: [gnso-sti] Possibility of a Face to Face
Meeting
Perhaps
Margie could give us staff's perspective on this?
Thanks,
Stéphane
Le
12 nov. 2009 à 16:50, Mike Rodenbaugh a écrit :
Again
I am concerned that staff is organizing a resource-intensive F2F meeting
without a request for same from Council. Again copying the Council list.
The
PPSC-WT is also trying to do this simultaneously. The Council ought to be
prioritizing these resources across all our work, it ought not be done by Staff
and various WGs in silos.
Mike
Rodenbaugh
RODENBAUGH
LAW
548
Market Street
San
Francisco, CA 94104
From: owner-gnso-sti@icann.org [mailto:owner-gnso-sti@icann.org] On Behalf Of Margie Milam
Sent: Wednesday, November
11, 2009 3:07 PM
To: GNSO STI
Cc: Marilyn Vernon
Subject: [gnso-sti]
Possibility of a Face to Face Meeting
Dear
All,
I
checked into the possibility of a face to face meeting for the STI group,
funded by ICANN, to facilitate resolution of the outstanding issues and
the efforts to gain a consensus on an alternative proposal.
We are exploring the feasibility of this request, and wanted to get
some information from you to assess the costs of doing this on a relatively
short notice.
Specifically,
we would try to pick a location to minimize the travel costs for the
participants, and would likely pick an inexpensive locale in a central
location.
Do
we have an idea of when to schedule the meeting? We assume that it
would be sometime between now and mid-December. Rather than
have a discussion on the list, please email our administrative assistant,
Marilyn Vernon, with days that you would be unavailable between now and
mid-December. She is cc’d on this email. Please let her
know your location as well.
Best
regards,
Margie
_______________
Margie
Milam
Senior
Policy Counselor
ICANN
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