On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 23:34:58 -0800, Gareth Shearman <shearman@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
At the very least I would think that this gives us a lever to say again that, if ICANN is going to give funding support to these kinds of meetings that they have at least some obligation to fund open ALAC regional meetings..
+0.5 The At-Large regional meetings are another matter. If we want to meet on our own with the ICANN staff, fine. That is precisely what the registrars do during their "ICANN regional meetings". I think what Evan and others meant to say was that those "ICANN regional meetings" should be a way for the community to interact with the registrars. FWIW, I find these "ICANN regional meetings" a misnomer. They should rather be named "ICANN staff business meetings with registrars" in their current state, and that would make it much clearer. I have no issue at all with an organization having business meetings with its partners. Many ccTLDs do exactly the same. Rather, I would suggest such "ICANN regional meetings" could have closed sessions with business partners and open sessions with the rest of the community. Patrick