All,

Since we have a number of new members, I wanted to clarify when the IPC holds its monthly meetings, and to mention some potential changes.

Currently, the IPC has its membership meetings on the second Tuesday of the month at the UTC time equivalent to 11:30 Eastern time (16:30 UTC as of now, but sometimes 15:30 UTC).  This may be moved in months when there is an ICANN meeting, but otherwise it stays as is.

We are reviewing the possibility of moving to a rotation system, so that regions where 16:30 (or 15:30) UTC is in the middle of the night are not always disadvantaged.  We should have a proposal in the coming weeks.

Our secretariat will send out monthly calendar items and reminders.  Since we are reviewing the time slot, we will not send out a recurring calendar item for the entire year (2016).

Our upcoming meetings will be:

January 12, 2016

February 9, 2016

We will be in Marrakech on the second Tuesday of March, so our "live" meeting will be our March meeting.

I hope this helps clarify matters.

Greg