I agree in sharing the "pain". The issue was discussed discussed several times on GNSO council, and the secretariat sent me the following information about alternating times that have been found acceptable: 11:00 UTC, 15:00 UTC., and 20:00UTC which was later changed to 18:00UTC. We have found that alternating among 3 time zones, like the Board does as well, shared the pain of awkward meeting hours and if the meeting dates are set well in advance, like the Council dates for one year, people do not get confused. We have never had the case where someone has not been to a meeting because they 'did not know/were confused'. In addition we do not change the UTC times for the winter and summer times, we send out timely warning of the time change in each zone. Best regards Wolf-Ulrich -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Patrik Fältström Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:58 AM To: Keith Davidson Cc: internal-cg@icann.org Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] Next call Sep 26, 12:00-13:00 UTC _______________________________________________ Internal-cg mailing list Internal-cg@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-cg