[NCUC-DISCUSS] Updates on ICANN67

[Bruna Martins dos Santos]

Dear NCUC,

I just wanted to write you a short update on the upcoming ICANN virtual
meeting. As you're all aware, recently ICANN decided to no longer host an
onsite meeting and gave their staff and the Community Leaders the -
impossible - challenge of organizing in two weeks an virtual meeting that
should attempt at reproducing what would've been the schedule of ICANN67.

On that note some important things:
(a) NCUC will no longer host any sessions during this virtual meeting. On
the interest of time and already foreseeing some difficulties our members
might have in following this meeting, we will host our Members and EC
session at a later date.
(b) ICANN67 Schedule will be shorter. Comm leaders were asked to only keep
strictly necessary sessions and the consensus around the group was to keep
mostly PDPs, Review Teams or any other Cross-community work we deemed
necessary.
(c) Timezone will be Cancun TImezone - UTC -5 - and the meeting will run
for shorter hours than normal, from 9h00 to 17h00.
(d) Live Translation Services will only be provided for English to Spanish
+ some live transcripts that could be translated. We understand that
decision should be slightly exclusionary for other communities such as the
Francophone community and maybe we could think of ways of having our french
speakers writing up summaries of the sessions to be shared on the list.

With regards to the final schedule I believe ICANN should be able to
provide us a new one by the beginning of next week.

Last but not least, I would like to highlight how problematic this
experiment has been. Of course it is a first time for ICANN and for us
volunteers, but the decision of adapting the entire schedule in two weeks
is ambitious to say the least. I also fear that this experiment ends up
harming the MS model we have built ICANN around, whether virtual or onsite,
a lot of the communities interactions are being sacrificed on behalf of
this first experiment and I just hope we get to have an onsite Kuala Lumpur
meeting as well as a broader community discussions about this first virtual
meeting.

While I highly appreciate all the efforts being made by David Olive,
Tanzanica, the meetings team and Maryam in making sure our priority
meetings do make it to the schedule, (personal thought) I would've wished
for ICANN to just call this meeting of or even postpone it for us to have a
bit more time in discussing with our constituents what the priorities
should be and how to better adjust the schedule.

I will keep you all posted when there are more updates on the virtual
meeting.

Best Regards,

-- 
*Bruna Martins dos Santos *

Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
@boomartins
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