Each year ICANN hosts regional outreach gatherings for ICANN accredited registrars and gTLD registries in the Europe, Asia/Pacific, and North America regions. These meetings are not open to the non-supplier community and no such regional gatherings are put together for any other combination of ICANN constituencies (as ICANN remains committed to its continued status as a registry/registrar cartel). ICANN's next regional gathering is the Europe Registry/Registrar Regional Gathering scheduled for January in Rome. ICANN recently sent "Save the Date" notices to those eligible to attend, but hasn't posted anything on the ICANN website itself, and of course the at-large community has not been invited to attend. These gatherings are deemed to be relatively small information-sharing events intended to educate and inform registrars from the region and their registry partners. ICANN sees no need to periodically educate and inform the non-contracted parties in a similar fashion. Earlier this year ICANN held an Asia/Pacific gathering in Seoul and a North America gathering in New Orleans. As the population of registrars expands in other parts of the world, ICANN expects to offer similar events in other regions and to continue to deny such outreach services to the remainder of the ICANN community. As was the case for the Seoul gathering and the New Orleans gathering, the Rome event will also be as non-transparent as possible with no remote participation opportunities provided, no session transcripts made available and no meeting recordings.