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