[bc-gnso] Fw: [soac-discussion] ICANN 40 ­ Silicon Valley Meeting Schedule Changes

["Marilyn Cade " <marilynscade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bc members: latest updates from ICANN re Tuesday and Thursday GAC/Board 
meetings. The breakfast from 8-9:15 am and the BC meeting (exact time to be 
announced) will continue Tuesday afternoon. 

Marilyn Cade
BC Chair

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Olive <david.olive@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:55:19 
To: <soac-discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [soac-discussion] ICANN 40 ­ Silic
 on Valley Meeting Schedule Changes

ICANN 40 - Silicon Valley Meeting Schedule Changes
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-10mar11-en.htm


10 March 2011
Continuing discussions between the Board and the Governmental Advisory 
Committee have resulted in schedule changes for ICANN's upcoming meeting 
Silicon Valley - San Francisco Public Meeting.
The Board and the GAC made progress in their Brussels consultations in 
narrowing the outstanding issues, as evidenced in the reporting of anticipated 
changes made in response to GAC's scorecard. As a result, and to increase the 
likelihood of additional areas of agreement, the Board and GAC have agreed on 
the need to expand the planned consultation at the upcoming Silicon Valley 
meeting.
The main schedule highlights are:
* The addition of the planned Board-GAC consultations in two separate sessions, 
on Tuesday and Thursday. These consultations were noticed by the ICANN Board 
<http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25jan11-en.htm#5>  and will follow 
the same protocol as the recent meeting in Brussels: the Board and GAC will 
continue their dialogue and the public will be allowed to observe.
  * Tuesday, 15 March: 9:00am - 5:00pm
  * Thursday, 17 March: 8:00am - 4:00pm
* As part of ICANN's multi-stakeholder, bottom-up process, two other sessions 
will allow the community to provide feedback on the new gTLD program and the 
GAC-Board consultations in particular. These are scheduled for:
  * Monday, 14 March: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
  * Wednesday, 16 March: 9:00am - 12:00pm
* The public forum, offering participants the chance to offer their views on a 
wide range of important Internet-related topics, this will occur on Thursday, 
17 March, 4:00pm - 6:00pm.
* The Getting Ready - The New gTLD Questionnaire session that was scheduled for 
Thursday, 17 March, conflicts with other gTLD sessions and will be rescheduled 
for an online session after the meeting.

The Silicon Valley meeting schedule will be updated shortly. We apologize for 
these last minute changes, which we know may cause some inconvenience. However, 
given the extraordinary nature of the topics and the opportunity presented, 
ICANN leaders thought time should be devoted to this. We hope this notice 
allows you time to adjust your schedules accordingly. For those unable to 
attend in person, remote participation will be available. See details for each 
session on the schedule.
Resources:
Briefing Papers for ICANN Board-GAC Consultations 
<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-6-21feb11-en.htm> 
GAC indicative Scorecard 
<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-scorecard-23feb11-en.pdf>  [PDF, 
332 KB] on New gTLD Outstanding Issues
Board Notes GAC Actionable Scorecard 
<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/board-notes-gac-scorecard-04mar11-en.pdf>
  [PDF, 814 KB]
New gTLD Public Comment Summary &amp; Analyses and support documents 
<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-22feb11-en.htm> 
New gTLD Program <http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm> 
 David A. Olive
 Vice President, Policy Development Support
 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
 1101 New York Avenue, NW - Suite 930 - Washington, D.C.    20005
 Office: 202.570.7126      Mobile:  202.341.3611