Hi Everyone, After discussing with Nick and some others, I hope to suggest another model. The support from ICANN: $5000, is not a lot and is hard to go around to everyone. I am hoping some of you can come to Hong Kong by yourself and/or find sponsorship from your organisation (or relevant organisations). I have chatted with ISC in China earlier about this and believe they are ok to come for the meeting directly. For those who are interested to come but must need the ICANN funds support, please let us know so we can try to bring as many people over as possible. As for hotels, there are of course many other more economical choices. Here are just a few: Ashley Apartments http://www.ashleyapartments.com.hk Minden Hotel http://www.hotelminden.com YMCA (T.S.T.) http://www.ymcahk.org.hk B P International House http://www.bpih.com.hk Empire Kowloon Hotel http://www.empirehotel.com.hk Guangdong Hotel Hong Kong http://www.gdhhotels.com/ Louie Business Hotel http://www.hotel.com.hk/info/louie_map.jpg Mingle Place (Tsim Sha Tsui) http://www.mingleplace.com You can check out the prices from http://www.hotel.hk/index_eng.php Edmon
-----Original Message----- From: apac-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:apac-discuss- bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Edmon Chung Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:43 PM To: 'Asia-Pacific Discuss' Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] July 25 Meeting in HK
I was originally thinking only AM, however, it seems like a full day meeting may be a good idea. That being said, I do have another event planned for the afternoon, but we can have representative from ISOC HK for the whole day I believe. Nick mentioned that ICANN will reserve a room for the whole day for us.
As for agenda, here are some of the things I have in mind (not even a draft agenda yet):
- policy input process - identification of issues - development of statements - role of APRALO vs ALSes - mechanism of consolidating / summarizing input - mechanism of presenting statements, etc. - actual policy input - New gTLD process (application and evaluation) - Domain tasting - IDN - others? (Nick? Any suggestion?) - inter-ALS activities - general outreach efforts - recruitment of ALSes - vetting of ALSes (process) - apralo.org website
Edmon
-----Original Message----- From: apac-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:apac-discuss- bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Kuo-Wei Wu Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:02 PM To: 'Edmon Chung'; 'Asia-Pacific Discuss' Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] July 25 Meeting in HK
What is the meeting agenda? The meeting will run from 900am to 530pm on 7/25? Please let us know, so I can reserve my schedule (I believe the others have the similar issues).
Kuo Wu
*If people can stay only one night, then we have some money to help people's critical need for airfare (special for developing countries).
-----Original Message----- From: apac-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:apac-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Edmon Chung Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:56 AM To: 'Asia-Pacific Discuss' Subject: [APAC-Discuss] July 25 Meeting in HK
Hi Everyone,
ICANN has confirmed to support the venue as well as to provide US$5000 financial support for the meeting:
- July 25, 2007 (Wednesday) - Hong Kong - Sheraton (www.sheraton.com/HongKong)
What this means is that it should cover everyone's accommodation (see attached email for hotel booking at the ICANN venue hotel) for 2 nights. If we have left from the accommodation, we may allocate some money to everyone's travel
budget as well.
Would be great to have all of you here!
Please let me know who can come to the meeting.
Edmon
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