Excellent news - though if your reading my mind you have my sympathies ;-) CLO From: Nick Ashton-Hart [mailto:nick.ashton-hart@icann.org] Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 7:03 AM To: cheryl@hovtek.com.au Cc: 'Asia-Pacific Discuss' Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] APRALO General Assembly during ICANN Delhi - comments required from ALS' Cheryl: You have read my mind ... or I'm reading yours - as I have already raised this very point a couple of hours ago once I saw Kuo-Wei and Izumi's email. On 5 Dec 2007, at 20:42, Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote: All the more reason we must have ICANN book our travel arrangements as soon as possible as also Raj has pointed out that this time of year is horrendously busy in India as well... Naturally we will have remote attendance options as well but as this is the much delayed 'inaugural event for APRALO' with our signing etc., etc., we really should have maximum participation facilitated in any way possible by ICANN... In my opinion, at least... Nick it might be important to let the ICANN travel staff know as soon as possible, about these other , competing interests for travel to this meeting effecting us in this region, so they can be forewarned and I assume find best ways to solve potential problems *early* ( you may now count this email as today's rant to you from CLO regarding ICANN meeting arrangements ;-) so please pass it on to those who need to know... CLO From: Kuo-Wei Wu [mailto:kww9@columbia.edu] Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 1:13 AM To: Izumi AIZU Cc: Asia-Pacific Discuss; rajnesh@pacificit.org Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] APRALO General Assembly during ICANN Delhi - comments required from ALS' 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. -- Kind regards, Rajnesh D. Singh Chair, ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation <http://www.apralo.org> www.apralo.org _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss_atlarge-lists.i cann.org Homepage for the region: http://www.apralo.org _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss_atlarge-lists.i cann.org Homepage for the region: http://www.apralo.org -- >> Izumi Aizu << Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita Kumon Center, Tama University, Tokyo Japan * * * * * << Writing the Future of the History >> www.anr.org