ICANN changes Silicon Valley Meeting Schedule – DomainNews

Friday, 11 March 2011 06:43 Domain News
After some discussion between the Board and the Governmental Advisory Committee,ICANN decided to change the schedule for its Silicon Valley- San Francisco Public Meeting . Therefore,the Board and GAC agreed on the need to expand the planned consultation at the upcoming meeting .Here are the changes :
The addition of the planned Board-GAC consultations in two separate sessions, on Tuesday and Thursday. These consultations were noticed by the ICANN Board 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.