[NCUC-EC] First EC Meeting of the Year in DC

Wed Jan 7 19:20:44 CET 2015

Hi

Hmm…so it seems Grace, Joao and Stefi are getting in at varying times, and we’ve not heard from Peter.  This makes me hesitant to count on Sunday night working.  We could end up with a few jet lagged people sitting in the hotel lounge without quorum to do anything.  I’ve alas seen it happen before.  

Why don’t we revert to Plan A and meet for breakfast Monday 8am in the hotel?  We have to eat anyway and don’t have a lot of formal stuff to do so we won’t need more than a half hour to “conduct business” before heading across the street.  The meeting starts 9am.  We will be together for two days and will find plenty of chances to talk about other stuff.

Basically the agenda would be

1. Appointments: 

2 NCUC Reps. to the NCSG Executive Committee   
Tapani wants to do it and Milton said good idea so I assume he’s ready to step off. I assume Robin wishes to remain.

1 NCUC Rep. to the Public Interest Registry
Since this involves no real work but I do have to deal with PIR for their annual financial contribution, I would suggest we just send them my name.  Unless someone else has an itch, nobody’s expressed interest.

2 NCUC Reps. to the GNSO’s Standing Committee on Improvements
Nobody has expressed interest so I’ve written to Amr and David asking them to remain, at least for now.

Treasurer  
Nobody has expressed interest so Milton shall remain.

Membership Affairs Team
Walid has offered to serve as facilitator.

2.  Budget

Discuss ICANN and NCUC budget requests 

3.  Annual Plan

Discuss quarterly work priorities, internal work procedures, try to get some commitments to do stuff.

4.  AOB

Nothing complicated.

See you then,

Bill

> On Jan 6, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill
> I will arrive at Dulles Airport at 16.40 on Sunday, and if the ques are not too long at immigration, and catching the bus and train, I may be in tell maybe by 18 or 18.30. 
> 
> Rgds
> Grace
> 
> From: william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:08:32 +0100
> To: ncuc-ec at lists.ncuc.org <mailto:ncuc-ec at lists.ncuc.org>
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-EC] DC meetings
> 
> Hi all
> 
> 1.  Attached is the last version of the NCPH meeting agenda that was circulated.  I was on a plane during the last planning call and haven’t heard that things have evolved beyond what’s written here, with the exception that I guess (per the conversation on the NCSG PC list) we will propose the global public interest for Slot J.  
> 
> 2.  Could people please indicate what time Sunday they arrive?  If the four of you who are coming will arrive in time we could do a dinner + brief meeting Sunday night, which would be a lot more fun and conducive to conversation than a breakfast meeting Monday.  I can make a booking or we can just wander in Dupont Circle, lot of choices.
> 
> 3.  The Wednesday meeting is 10am - noon at CDT, 1634 I Street NW #1100.  Unfortunately the notice is short and the timing conflicts with other meetings e.g. at the State Dept, so I don’t know how big a group of locals we might be able to pull in, but as long as we have at least ten plus our side it’s worth doing. Please feel free to reach out to any local contacts of relevance and encourage them to attend (and notify me if so). 
> 
> 4.  Due to itineraries / availabilities etc. I ended up with a booking arriving Saturday night, which is not exactly how I wanted to spend my birthday but whatever.  At least I might be semi-coherent by Monday morning.  ICANN says it cannot cover an early extra night of hotel as per Tuesday, so I would like to formally request that we do so from the NCUC piggybank.  Constituency Travel hasn’t responded to several pings as to what hotel I’m in but others have said we’re at the Beacon, so I imagine it’ll be in the $200-300 range.
> 
> Ok…time to get back into the ICANNsphere…four hours of conference calls tomorrow, while grading exams, sigh...
> 
> See you soon,
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:42 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>> wrote:
> 
> Happy new year from London
> 
> I hope everyone has their DC travel lined up.  When I get back to Geneva Monday I will need to move quickly to pull together agendas for our meetings there (and start work on Singapore).  To help move this along, please let me know if you have any thoughts/agenda items for this,
> 
> On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:04 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>> wrote:
> 
> 1st EC Meeting in DC Monday 12 January, 7:30am
> 
> We’ll need to do appointments (per my 18 December message), discuss the annual/quarterly agendas, budget requests, etc.
> 
> BTW Matthew has successfully lined up a meeting space for us at CDT for the Wed. 14th outreach meeting, which is great.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bill
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