Hello Tom,
 
I agree for the most part. I would add that having a smaller set of topics to discuss would allow us to focus more fully on the important issues. The presentation and/or materials that apply to each topic should be circulated in advance. And there should be a clearly stated objective for each agenda item. We need to know where we are and where we want to be in order to be effective at getting there.
 
If the resultant agenda dictates a day and a half or two days, then I would be on board with that.
 
Tim


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [registrars] ICANN Meeting
From: "Thomas Keller" <tom@schlund.de>
Date: Thu, July 22, 2004 2:20 am
To: registrars@dnso.org

Hi all,

talking to fellow registrars after attending "yet another ICANN meeting"
we came up with the idea that it would serve the purpose of having a
lively and informed discusion if we would change the meetings setup.
Since most of the participants are around for more than one day we should
take this chance to be more productive and extend the meeting to two
days. On the first day all existing issues should be presented in depth
neccesarry to fully understand the constrains of them. This would also
be a good time to have other informal meetings like cross constituency
meetings and sales pitches. THe second day should than serve for
discussions around the issues presented on the first day. It might be
a wise idea to have a "free" day in between the two sessions to allow
for offline discussions.

I as well as others believe that this would raise the effectiness of our
meetings quite a bit and would enable us to actually get work done.

Best,

tom

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