The political and real benefit to the Internet community of holding a meeting in a country is short-lived and rarely spills over into neighbouring countries to any great extent. Alan, do you mean that it's useless to have meetings in those country???? I disagree with this approach, and still think that the principle of rotating the meetings over the 5 regions as much as possible is a priority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tijani BEN JEMAA Executive Director Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI) Phone: +216 98 330 114 Mobile: +216 41 649 605 Fax: +216 70 825 231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tijani BEN JEMAA Executive Director Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI) Phone: +216 98 330 114 Mobile: +216 41 649 605 Fax: +216 70 825 231 -------------------------------------------------------------------------