[board-09georegionswg] DOODLE / Geo Regions Working Group / next meeting
Dear All Further to Robs email, please find hereafter a Doodle Poll with 3 suggested dates. Please choose ALL options you would be able to make. http://www.doodle.com/vqadq63z7hus3bxf I will communicate the rescheduled date/time as soon as the Doodle has been completed. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions/issues. Thank you Kind regards Gisella ---------------------------- Gisella Gruber-White Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: gisella.gruber-white@xxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 7545 334 360 Skype ID: gisella.gw ------ Forwarded Message From: Robert Hoggarth <robert.hoggarth@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:37:17 -0700 To: <board-09georegionswg@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [board-09georegionswg] Geo Regions Working Group Proposed Charter Update Dear Working Group Members: The formal minutes of the 21 May Board meeting are not yet released but Dave Archbold asked me to make a brief report to the group to let you know about the status of the proposed charter document for the working group. Board members had several final comments on the proposed working group charter at the meeting - specifically with respect to the group's working methodology and the process for securing community support at the various stages of the preparation of the Final Report. I worked on-line during the meeting with one of the members on specific changes to the charter and managed to secure agreement that the changes were acceptable prior to the end of the meeting. Unfortunately, the meeting ran long and the Board did not circle around and approve the revised charter proposal. It now appears that the document is again primed for approval at the Sydney Board meeting. The practical impact of these developments is no formal charter approval before the 12 June proposed deadline for the Initial Report. I think that Dave would now like to have that document ready for publication soon after the Sydney meeting. He will also be reaching out again to the ASO to see if they would like to participate in the working group effort. I have attached a new red-lined version 4.4 of the charter (dated today - 25 May) that now includes three stages of changes: Stage 1. I left visible the original changes to Section 3 and Fahd's general edits that you all approved earlier in the month. Stage 2. The 21 May Board meeting discussion prompted the edits you'll see to Sections 4d, 4e, 4f and 4g. You'll see that they are relatively non-substantive but clarify what ICANN community groups are to be consulted during the final stages of the Final Report approval process. The informal Board member response to those edits was, "The changes you added are exactly those I was asking for." Stage 3. Finally, because of the delay in approving the proposed charter, it is necessary to make some adjustments to the group's originally proposed timetable. I have made some suggested edits to the timetable in Section 5 that preserve the overall timetable for completing your work, but necessarily modify the dates between now and the ICANN Seoul meeting. They are only a suggestion, so please comment/modify as you think appropriate. I am sorry for this second delay in the charter approval, but hopeful from Board member comments that they are now finally finished with their modifications to the proposal. The delay now offers you some additional time to develop and draft the Initial Report, including adding to the issues list and confirming the categorization scheme that was scheduled for discussion at last week's postponed meeting. Gisella Gruber-White will have a Doodle poll out soon looking to schedule the next working group call some time next week. Happy to answer any follow-up questions between now and that meeting. Best regards, Rob Hoggarth ------ End of Forwarded Message Attachment:
Draft_Charter_GEO_WG_v4.4 EN (red-lined 25 May 2009).doc
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