Participating and being allowed to participate (and observe) are two wholly different concepts. After Thomas cleared up my misunderstanding about the informational session, I believe my question is now geared towards the cross-constituency meeting (with the normal suspects and the Registrars) you are organizing separate and apart from the informational session. With respect to helping with the informational session, I will let the Registries know about the invitation to the group. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP [mailto:mcade@att.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:46 AM To: Thomas Roessler; Neuman, Jeff Cc: Bruce Tonkin; council@gnso.icann.org; jeffrey@icann.org; twomey@icann.org; ebroitman@register.com Subject: RE: [council] Attendance at Council meetings I agree with Thomas. Jeff, you had previously indicated that you thought the Registry Constituency may have problems participating on this issue. I take it from your email below that you've reconsidered on that front. Do you want to designate someone to help to organize the informational session, which is certainly intended to be open to all interested parties, as far as I am concerned. 202-255-7348c mcade@att.com -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Roessler [mailto:roessler@does-not-exist.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:36 AM To: Neuman, Jeff Cc: 'Bruce Tonkin'; council@gnso.icann.org; 'jeffrey@icann.org'; 'twomey@icann.org'; 'ebroitman@register.com' Subject: Re: [council] Attendance at Council meetings On 2003-10-15 09:22:09 -0500, Jeff Neuman wrote:
In addition, I would like to raise another concern involving openness and transparency. It has come to our attention that the Business Constituency has attempted to arrange a private meeting during the Tunisia meeting with several other constituencies (including the ISPs, the Registrars, the ALAC, etc.) to discuss the Wildcard Service and introduction of registry services in general.
The meeting that's being planned in cooperation with the ALAC is supposed to be an information and discussion event that is open to the public; there is no interest in excluding any individual constituency. -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> At-Large Advisory Committee: http://alac.info/