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Updated meeting schedule information.
It was announced several months before [[ICANN 44]] in Prague that the Board planned to restructure the meetings so that they ended on Thursday instead of Friday. Friday morning meetings, which have traditionally been the [[AC]]/[[SO]] committee reports, Board committee reports, and the public Board meeting, had been removed. The committee reports are instead to be published on the ICANN website, and the Public Board Meeting has been replaced by a one hour session following the Public Forum, during which the Board will outline what they heard during the week from their meetings with AC/SOs, and identify which matters they expect to be dealing with before the next meeting. The Board will then begin the following meeting with another community session where it outlines what has been done since the last meeting.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-30apr12-en.htm ICANN Wraps Up Prague Meeting on Thursday], ICANN.org. Published 2012 April 30.</ref> Following this announcement, the ICANN community expressed concerns over the loss of transparency that this change brings.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/icann-cancels-fridays-bad-for-transparency/ ICANN cancels Fridays. Bad for transparency], DomainIncite.com. Published 2012 May 2.</ref>
It was announced several months before [[ICANN 44]] in Prague that the Board planned to restructure the meetings so that they ended on Thursday instead of Friday. Friday morning meetings, which have traditionally been the [[AC]]/[[SO]] committee reports, Board committee reports, and the public Board meeting, had been removed. The committee reports are instead to be published on the ICANN website, and the Public Board Meeting has been replaced by a one hour session following the Public Forum, during which the Board will outline what they heard during the week from their meetings with AC/SOs, and identify which matters they expect to be dealing with before the next meeting. The Board will then begin the following meeting with another community session where it outlines what has been done since the last meeting.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-30apr12-en.htm ICANN Wraps Up Prague Meeting on Thursday], ICANN.org. Published 2012 April 30.</ref> Following this announcement, the ICANN community expressed concerns over the loss of transparency that this change brings.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/icann-cancels-fridays-bad-for-transparency/ ICANN cancels Fridays. Bad for transparency], DomainIncite.com. Published 2012 May 2.</ref>
==New Meeting Schedule - 2015==
As of ICANN 55 - Marrakech, ICANN's meeting schedule will change. This is the result of the work of a multi-stakeholder working group ([[MSWG]]) comprised of [[ALAC]], [[ASO]], [[ccNSO]], [[GNSO]], [[GAC]] members, started in February 2013. The working group came together at this time to address the rapid increase in conference attendance and the growing need for intentional and focused meetings that could adequately support all the moving parts of [[ICANN]].
The committee came together to focus on the following issues in particular:
* meeting timing
* duration and format
* rotation of the meeting location
* meeting support and engagement activities
* meeting planning
===Summary of Recommedations==
* '''Continue the three-meeting schedule annually''', but evolve the structure of the three meetings (defined as Meeting A, B, and C) to better address meeting objectives, scheduling conflicts and to use the time in a most effective way.
* '''Continue regional rotation for all meetings''' and coordinate rotation to balance global coverage on a multi-year cycle, but evolve the rotation strategy to take advantage of the smaller mid-year meeting (Meeting B) to rotate through new geographic locations previously unavailable to the meetings due to the attendance and logistical requirements of the current meeting structure. See the calendar and regional rotation for future meetings.
* '''Continue to allocate adequate time for SO/AC work''', but evolve the format of the meetings to afford greater opportunity for cross-community engagement and outreach.
* '''Continue with the public forum at the first and third meetings in the cycle''', but evolve the format by splitting the time into two portions with differing focus.
<ref>[https://meetings.icann.org/en/future-meeting-strategy Future Meeting Schedule. Retrieved 03 Nov 2015.]</ref>
===The Annual Meeting===
===The Annual Meeting===