FYI Particularly those who will be in LA and those intending to join sessions by remote participation. Tony From: Robert Hoggarth [mailto:robert.hoggarth@icann.org] Sent: 26 January 2013 00:25 To: William Drake; Marilyn Cade; Rafik Dammak; michaeladams@mayerbrown.com; Trachtenberg, Marc H.; Robin Gross; Alain Berranger; Klaus Stoll; Kristina Rosette; Metalitz, Steven; David Cake; Tony Holmes Cc: David Olive; Joseph de Jesus; Karen Lettner; Glen de Saint Géry; Nathalie Peregrine Subject: Final Firm Agenda - Revised Times and New Session - GNSO-NCPH January 2013 LA Meeting Planning Thank you all for the additional comments and suggestions for some of the session topics at the LA meeting. This message includes the last further revised agenda and attendee list for the meeting. In addition to a time shift for a few of the mid-day Wednesday sessions, this latest agenda (vFirm3) reflects changes in the order of the briefing sessions on the afternoon of Tuesday 29 January (the new gTLD briefing is moving from last to first) and the addition of a new late-afternoon session with ICANN Board members on Wednesday 30 January. The new Board session necessitated a shift of the potential wrap-up breakout meetings of Constituencies that day to earlier that afternoon. To Bill's point (previous message below), we plan to populate the meeting wiki page with a lot of this information this weekend - https://community.icann.org/display/ncph/InterSessional+-+January+2013 . We are currently revising the teleconference remote participation connections to reflect the agenda time changes. There is still time to set aside specific Constituency meeting slots in the allocated time blocks, so please advise Glen and Nathalie (emails above) as soon as possible if your community would like to plan on some individual meeting time, particularly if you are expecting to supplement your telephone and Adobe Connect arrangements with recordings and transcripts. To make potential use of the breakout rooms more efficient, each Constituency has been assigned a specific conference room space to use for breakout meetings in the appropriate time blocks during the meeting. The assignments are reflected in the attached agenda document. I am hopeful that you will appreciate the newly scheduled session with Board members. It turns out that a number of Board members will be arriving early for a Board Workshop taking place later in the week and Steve Crocker asked for the opportunity for an informal dialogue with meeting attendees. The agenda will be somewhat informal since only those Board members able to attend will be present. Some prospective topics that Steve has discussed include: * The future of Internet governance – what is the appropriate role of ICANN? * What is the future of the GNSO in a world of new gTLDs? * What does it really mean to say that ICANN is operating in the Public Interest? * How will more attention on Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice impact ICANN – its operations and constituent structures? * Going forward, what is the best way for the Board and the community to engage on broad industry issues. The purpose of a discussion including some of these topics would not be to reach any specific conclusions, but to give Board members in attendance an opportunity to develop a better understanding of your community views. Feel free to suggest some other topics for the one hour session. The session will be followed by an informal reception with Board members in the ICANN Café before you all head out for dinner on your own at 7pm that evening. Wishing you all safe and non-eventful travels to Los Angeles! Best, Rob On 1/25/13 3:10 AM, "William Drake" <william.drake@uzh.ch> wrote: Hi Rob One last point (in addition to the break-outs/remote participation one mentioned separately). We've circulated the RP info to our members, but we've been asked if it's a "secret meeting" since there's nothing posted about the agenda and participants. I assume the intention is to put these at https://community.icann.org/display/ncph/InterSessional+-+January+2013. If that could happen soon it would help us to clue in our respective members about what they'll encounter by dialing in. Thanks Bill