Dear colleagues, With thanks to Donna, Michele and Carlos for submitting draft Council comments on Incremental Changes to ICANN Meeting Strategy. In our comments on Recommendation b, I wonder if it would be appropriate to clarify the following statement: 'To that end the ability to dedicate substantive time for PDP WGs to meet face-to-face during one ICANN meeting each year, and engage in discussions with the broader community during non-conflicted cross-community sessions, is critical to assisting the PDP WGs progress their respective work efforts.' To ensure that it is understood that we mean that PDPs should meet during a public meeting, and not through a dedicated f2f, it may help to add the word 'public' to 'ICANN meeting'. Further, I think we might do well to open the door to more than one such opportunity a year. Thus my suggested edits: "during *at least *one ICANN *public* meeting each year'. Paul and I will circulate to the IPC with a view to getting any further comments back to the list ASAP. Best wishes, Heather On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Ayden Férdeline <icann@ferdeline.com> wrote:

Dear Donna, Carlos, and Michele—

Thank you very much for drafting these comments. While I would welcome a more comprehensive review of the meeting strategy for ICANN Public Meetings, for the purpose of this comment I would prefer that we keep our remarks within the narrow scope of the feedback that has been sought. Accordingly, I do not at this time support the submission of the second paragraph and accompanying bullet points of the high level comments.

On the incremental recommendations, I would like to understand why there is a desire to remove the public Board meeting from the agenda of the Community Forum. I otherwise am supportive of these recommendations and thank the drafting team for their efforts in compiling them.

Best wishes,

Ayden Férdeline linkedin.com/in/ferdeline <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline>

-------- Original Message -------- On 20 January 2018 9:35 PM, Austin, Donna via council < council@gnso.icann.org> wrote:

All

Please find attached draft GNSO Council comments on Proposed Incremental Changes to ICANN Meetings Strategy. These comments have been drafted by Michele Neylon, Carlos Raul Gutierrez and myself and are now submitted to Council for consideration.

These comments include some high level comments about ICANN meetings that go beyond the intended scope of the public comment being sought. Michele, Carlos and I understand that the Council as a whole may not agree with the general sentiment of the comments and as such welcome your feedback.

The aim is to have the comments approved during our Council meeting on 30 January, in order to submit the comments by the deadline of 1 February.

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/proposed-changes- meetings-strategy-2017-12-14-en

https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/45744715/ Meeting-Strategy-Incremental-Changes-FINAL_13Oct17.docx? version=1&modificationDate=1513201758768&api=v2

Thanks

Donna

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