Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Welcome to the Joint SO/AC WG on New gTLD Applicant Support

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not a great time for me, but better than some! I can make it.  Alan

At 26/04/2010 11:07 AM, Olof Nordling wrote:
> Dear all,
> A warm welcome to this Working Group* – and 
> thanks for signing up! Together with Glen de 
> Saint Géry, I will provide ICANN staff support 
> for the WG, which will initially be chaired by 
> Rafik Dammak who is also the GNSO Council 
> liaison to the WG. Election of a chair for the 
> WG will be one of its early tasks, so please 
> give that aspect some thought already now.
> In view of the ambitious objectives, to have an 
> outcome ready well before the ICANN meeting in 
> Brussels in June, we need to have a first 
> conference call really soon. The plan is to have 
> the first call already this upcoming Thursday 29 
> April at 11.00 UTC! Please notify me 
> (<mailto:olof.nordling@xxxxxxxxx>olof.nordling@xxxxxxxxx) 
> and Glen 
> (<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxx>gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxx) 
> right away if this time doesn’t work for you – 
> if foreseen attendance is low, we will set up a 
> doodle and defer the call to the following week.
> You will receive dial-in details, call agenda 
> etc separately before the call. As a background, 
> you may wish to (re-)read the following, 
> including the links: In Nairobi, the ICANN Board 
> invited the community to suggest suitable ways 
> to provide support for New gTLD applicants, see 
> <http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-12mar10-en.htm#20>http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-12mar10-en.htm#20 
> . The GNSO Council has since resolved to launch 
> a Working Group to address this matter, see 
> <http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201004>http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#201004 
> , inviting all interested ICANN SOs and ACs to 
> join in the effort. The work is planned to 
> commence in late April and to conclude in time 
> before the ICANN meeting in Brussels in June this year.
> Looking forward to working together with all of you!
>
> Very best regards
>
> Olof
>
> *  With a full name for the WG as long as it is, 
> and with an unpronounceable mailing list name, 
> the suggestion is to call it “JAS WG” for short, 
> unless there are objections (OK, JAS means coat 
> in Dutch and a fighter aircraft in Swedish, but the confusion risk is low;-)