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The ALAC welcomes the publishing of tentative dates for ICANN meetings in 2021-2023 well ahead of time so that possible conflicts with community events and globally recognized non-working or religious observance days can be identified and avoided.
As far as we can see, the tentative dates for 2021-2023 do avoid conflicting with major, globally recognized holiday periods. More problematic are important holidays that are celebrated in certain regions only, like Midsummer in Northern Europe.
In the planning for 2021-2023, direct conflicts with the Midsummer holidays have been avoided. In practice, since the meetings are either immediately before (2022 and 2023) or after (2021) the holidays, travel and various pre- or post-meetings interfere with them nevertheless. Thus, ideal meeting dates would be a full week removed from the Midsummer holidays. In practice, this would mean moving the Policy Forum one week earlier in 2022 and 2023 and two weeks earlier in 2021.
We realize the need for compromises, and understand that not every regional holiday can be taken in account. At the same time, we appreciate the effort to accommodate them in cases this does not cause inconvenience to anybody else. This of course applies to all important regional holidays, of which Midsummer is just one.
