Hello Marilyn,
1. As we are beginning to plan for the Rome ICANN meeting, I'd like to suggest that Council consider the time frame for our meeting and our working agenda and adjust, IF needed, to ensure that we have time to address in detail the issues on our agenda. At our last meeting in Carthage, we had a number of issues to discuss and needed to extend our meeting accordingly. Fortunately, we were able to do so. However, we may not always be so fortunate with availability of rooms, staff, bridge, remote participants availability.
I see from the preliminary planning for the ICANN meeting that 2 March 2004 is for constituency meetings 3 March 2004 is for the GNSO Council 4 March 2004 is for the public forum I suggest we project manage the whole day on 3 March 2004 as follows: Morning - 4 parallel sessions on the 4 PDPs (main policy work) - these will be public workshops managed by each task force/council - the objective will be to gain public input as well as seek to reach consensus positions Afternoon - Council meeting (mostly administrative) I am tempted to devote the whole day of 3 March on the policy workshops, and delay the council meeting until the morning of 4 March 2004. I can't think of too many issues before the Board at present that would justify a day long public forum, and I think the Council could benefit from having more time prior to the actual meeting workshopping some of the policy issues. Regards, Bruce