Dear councilors, Please find below the 2018 GNSO Council meeting times and dates proposed by the GNSO Council leadership team. The dates have been established considering religious holidays as well as known potentially conflicting events. The rotating times (04:00, 12:00 and 21:00 UTC) have been discussed in regard to councilors’ time-zones with incoming councilors taken into account as well as the new formation of the Council leadership team. Whereas it is clear that all councilors will be inconvenienced by one out of the three times chosen, the other two times will be hopefully received as manageable. Please also remember that with three ICANN Public meetings with GNSO Council meetings being face-to-face, and the first Council meeting of 2018 taking place during the Strategic Planning session in Los Angeles, so, also face-to-face, this leaves the announced rotation affecting only 8 out of 12 planned meetings. Please take a look at the below dates and times: GNSO Council meeting dates 2018 30th January 2018 – During the GNSO Council Strategic Planning session, clashes with Namescon 28 – 31 January. 22 February 2018 – 12:00 UTC (Chinese New Year is on the 16 February) 14 March 2018 – ICANN Public meeting in San Juan 26 April 2018 – 21:00 UTC (19th April is Jewish holiday Yom Ha’Atzmaut) 24 May 2018 – 04:00 UTC (12 – 13 May is GDD Summit in Vancouver, 16 – 18 May is Rightscon in Toronto) 20 June 2018 – ICANN Public meeting in Panama City 19 July 2018 – 12:00 UTC (no dates yet for IGF USA) 16 August 2018 – 21:00 UTC (22-25 August is Eid Al Adha) 27 September 2018 – 04:00 UTC (19 September is Yom Kippour) 24 October 2018 – ICANN Public meeting in Barcelona 29 November 2018 – 12:00 UTC (22 November is US Thanksgiving) 20 December 2018 – 21:00 UTC Kind regards, Nathalie Nathalie Peregrine Manager, Operations Support (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: nathalie.peregrine@icann.org <nathalie.peregrine@icann.org%20> Skype: nathalie.peregrine.icann Find out more about the GNSO by taking our interactive courses<applewebdata://EB3A6F47-9760-400D-A39B-A7EFFC56B467/learn.icann.org/courses/gnso> and visiting the GNSO Newcomer pages<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_sites_gns...>