July 2014 - Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg

Please participate in the doodle poll - PPSAI F2F meeting in Los Angeles on 10 October
by Marika Konings July 8, 2014

July 8, 2014

Dear All, As discussed during our meeting today, the GNSO Council recently received approval to implement a pilot project in FY15 to assess the effect of face-to-face meeting time with the support of a professional facilitator for GNSO PDP Working Groups under the FY15 Special Community Requests. Having looked at the various stages current PDP WGs are in, it was decided that it would be an ideal moment for the PPSAI WG to benefit from such a meeting in conjunction with the ICANN meeting in LA (October 2014) in preparation for the publication of the Initial Report. As such, we are looking to organise a full day meeting of the PPSAI WG on Friday 10 October in Los Angeles (right before the start of the ICANN meeting). As outlined in the attached proposal that was reviewed by the GNSO Council in London, the idea would be that each GNSO Stakeholder Group (SG) assigns up to 6 existing WG members to participate in the F2F meeting for whom one additional hotel night (from Thursday to Friday) will be covered. Note: no travel funding (i.e. airfare) to attend the meeting is foreseen as part of this pilot project SGs are expected to identify WG members that are already funded for their travel through other means. Should a SG decide not to use all 6 slots, the WG Chairs may decide to allocate the one additional hotel night to another WG member, taking into account the overall balance of participants. In addition, the same applies for 6 SO/AC/individual WG member slots. Additional WG members may attend the meeting in person or via remote participation, but no additional funding is available to cover the additional hotel night. As the ICANN meeting in LA is approaching rapidly, we wanted as a first step flag this plan to you to allow you to mark your calendars accordingly. To get an idea whether you would be available to participate (either in person or remotely), noting that we are aware that for some it may not be possible yet to provide a definitive answer at this stage, we would like to ask you to complete the following doodle poll: http://doodle.com/v6u29dnnui8xb73z. We'll be working closely with the chairs on the planning for the meeting and will provide you with further updates in due course, but for now, please mark Friday 10 October in your calendars. Best regards, Marika

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GNSO Working Group Calendar Invitations
by Nathalie Peregrine July 7, 2014

July 7, 2014

Dear all, The GNSO Secretariat is happy to announce that they are now going to add calendar invitations to the usual Working Group invitation emails. Therefore, from today onwards, along with the regular email invitation, there will be a calendar invitation attached to the email. This invitation should adapt to all formats of email calendar. Should you wish to test this feature, please proceed as below: 1- Open the attachment and accept the invitation. Please do NOT send the reply back to the sender. 2- Please check calendar invite is in correct slot according to your individual calendar time zone 3- Please email gnso-secs(a)icann.org with any worry or concern you may have with this feature. We will be sending out emails in a few weeks' time to get member feedback. Thank you! Nathalie GNSO Secretariat

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Proposed Agenda - PPSAI WG Meeting 8 July
by Marika Konings July 7, 2014

July 7, 2014

Dear All, Please find below the proposed agenda for tomorrow's PPSAI WG meeting. Best regards, Marika Proposed Agenda PPSAI WG Meeting 8 July 2014 1. Roll call / SOI 2. Recap from F2F meeting in London 3. Review work plan and plans for F2F meeting in Los Angeles (see work plan attached) 4. Finalize Cat D Q 4 template (see latest version attached including alternate language suggested by Don and Kathy) 5. Commence deliberations on Cat E Q 1 (if time allows) 6. Next steps / confirm next meeting

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REMINDER: PLEASE RSVP Monthly GNSO WG Newcomer Open House Session
by Terri Agnew July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

REMINDER: Monthly GNSO WG Newcomer Open House Session These ongoing monthly sessions are for new GNSO WG participants to come together and discuss any questions they may have about GNSO Working Groups, procedures and/or processes. We know there is a lot of information to digest when you join a GNSO Working Group and these monthly meetings are an opportunity for newcomers and more experienced participants to meet in an informal setting without the pressure of "real work" that needs be done. The agenda is flexible. The presenters will be ready with a standard set of materials if people would like to discuss them. Feel free to submit questions, either in advance or at the beginning of the meeting, if there is a topic that you would like to explore in more depth . Providing useful answers to a wide range of questions is part of the reason why these meetings are Thursday 3 July at 20.00 UTC Thursday 7 August at 12.00 UTC Thursday 4 September at 20.00 UTC Thursday 2 October at 12.00 UTC Thursday 6 November at 20.00 UTC Thursday 4 December at 12.00 UTC To convert to your local time zone, please see <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html. If you are interested to join the next meeting on 3 July or any of the future meetings, please let the GNSO Secretariat know ( <mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> gnso-secs(a)icann.org) and we will send you the call details. If there are any specific questions you already have, or any overviews or introductions you think would be helpful (e.g. GNSO Policy Development Process or GNSO Working Group guidelines), please let us know in advance and we will prepare materials accordingly. Feel free to share this invitation with others that you think may be interested. We look forward to welcoming you at the next meeting! Nathalie Peregrine & Terri Agnew GNSO Secretariat

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