Earlier in the week Fadi Chehadé was in NYC and, thanks to Veni Markovski and Gale Brewer, we were able to have a brief meeting. It was about half about NYC's own TLD and and half about general ICANN issues. One interesting factoid emerged - in the .nyc landrush auctions the top bidding was for marijuana.nyc which went for circa $60k! Gale promised that we would soon see the promised public hearings on the TLD. Later we had an opportunity to take Fadi to task on his NetMundial maneuvering not all of which, as you know, has met with unanimous approval. Ever ebullient, he insists everything is coming along just fine, but did appear to distance the NMI from the WEF. He also mentioned that China had decided not to do the splinternet thing. As always, our deaf/hoh members - not to mention those who are time challenged - would very much appreciate it if volunteers could step up to do some transcribing, even if it's only on the short clips. joly posted: "On Monday November 24 2014 ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé met with NYC community at the office of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. Present were representatives of ISOC-NY, Connecting .nyc, New York Tech Meetup, Meetup, NameSpace, Access, and" On Monday *November 24 2014* ICANN President and CEO *Fadi Chehadé* met with NYC community at the office of Manhattan Borough President *Gale Brewer*. Present were representatives of ISOC-NY, Connecting .nyc, New York Tech Meetup, Meetup, NameSpace, Access, and Google. First there was a progress reort on the .nyc TLD <http://ownit.nyc> from *Jeff Merritt* of the Mayor's Office and *Jeff Neuman* of Neustar, followed by some Q&A - much of it about the mechanics of the nexus requirements for registrants. In the second part Fadi Chehadi spoke briefly about the major challenges to ICANN and the multistakeholder model, including the IANA transition and the development of the NetMundial initiative. Fadi had just returned from the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, where he had received assurances from that country's leadership of their continuing engagement with the global Internet and its evolving governance processes. Video is below, including a couple of highlights. A full index is available on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZ4A0-C9Kg>. *Full video (83 mins)* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZ4A0-C9Kg&w=560&h=315> *View on YouTube:* http://youtu.be/HRZ4A0-C9Kg *Transcribe on AMARA:* http://www.amara.org/en/videos/PFQB5gfxgaIx/ *China (3 mins)* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFk-fcuTEM&w=560&h=315> *View on YouTube:* http://youtu.be/bhFk-fcuTEM *Transcribe on AMARA:* http://www.amara.org/en/videos/byybHNw8PKTd/ *NetMundial (5 mins)* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvH2FTAM2y8&w=560&h=315> *View on YouTube:* http://youtu.be/xvH2FTAM2y8 *Transcribe on AMARA:* http://www.amara.org/en/videos/SAYuS94k6p0M/ *ISOC, WEF, and the NetMundial Initiative (6 mins)* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huI6PucrL7c&w=560&h=315> *View on YouTube:* http://youtu.be/huI6PucrL7c *Transcribe on AMARA:* http://www.amara.org/en/videos/s1MB26I7VMtq/ Comment <https://isoc-ny.org/p2/7238#respond> See all comments <https://isoc-ny.org/p2/7238#comments> *Permalink* https://isoc-ny.org/p2/7238 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -