I was so naiive - not to consider Chinese New Year directly in conflict
with ICANN New Delhi meeting when announced.
As former member of APRICOT organizing committee, and APRICOT
has longer history than ICANN, we always set the dates not to
crash with Chinese New Year as a matter of first priority. I trusted
ICANN and its meeting commitee - especially since they intentionally
moved the date/locale of AP meeting from 2007 Fall to 2008 Spring.
Big sigh. Well, let's be pragmatic at this stage - I will try to find
airline booking situation from Tokyo to India.
izumi
If only ICANN had had access to a group that had members, who could have made these comments in the preplanning stage *sigh* Nick ->I hope my cynicism here gets quoted with the next conversation you have regarding Meeting, organisation and travel arrangements...
CLO
From: Hong Xue [mailto: hongxueipr@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 1:37 PM
To: Kuo-Wei Wu
Cc: Asia-Pacific Discuss; rajnesh@pacificit.org
Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] APRALO General Assembly during ICANN Delhi - comments required from ALS'
What Kuo-wei said is very true. ICANN's Asian meeting should take into account the Asian tradition and culture. For many East-Asia and South-East-Asia Countries, Lunar New Year is as important as, if not more important than, Christmas. If it is totally inconceivable for ICANN to arrange a meeting overlapping with Christmas, it must be very culturally unthoughtful to make the meeting clashing with the Lunar New Year.
Hong
On 12/5/07, Kuo-Wei Wu <kww9@columbia.edu> wrote:
You are right. And thanks for your comment. It will be tough for us to get the flight ticket too (it will be very crowded at Taipei airport).
Kuo Wu
On Dec 5, 2007 5:31 PM, Izumi AIZU < iza@anr.org> wrote:
2007/12/5, Kuo-Wei Wu <kww9@columbia.edu>:
Thanks for your information. As you might know, Feb. 7 is Chinese New Year. The holiday is from 2/6~11. I will try to find out who can join the meeting.
Oh no, I didn't realize the Chinese New Year crashes with
ICANN meeting. This may impose travel restrictions, too,
unless we book the flight early enough.
For those who are outside Asia, Chinese New Year is
equal to or perhaps bigger than the Christmas, many
overseas Chinese people visit their home or family re-union
across the region and beyond.
(The Japanese new year is same as the calender year,
and many also go to overseas for holiday tour, but most of
the family re-union take place within the country unlike
Chinese).
izumi
Thanks.
Kuo Wu
On Dec 5, 2007 3:24 PM, Rajnesh D. Singh < rajnesh@pacificit.org> wrote:
Colleagues,
It has been suggested that APRALO hold its General Assembly on Saturday
February 9th 2008 to allow the ALAC and Secretariats to meet on the 10th.
ICANN will arrange 1 delegate per ALS to attend the meeting. As such, I
would like your comments on whether this would suit you, as it does mean
arriving a bit earlier than you normally would - probably on the 7th or
8th, depending on your point of origin and flight availability.
The other option is to hold the GA on Monday 11th, but this has some
potential conflict with another ALAC meeting.
I would appreciate your comments by Friday 7th December to enable the
planning and logistics to proceed in a timely manner.
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Chair, ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation www.apralo.org
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