Ross Rader wrote:
I'm finding this entire thread pretty funny. It wasn't too long ago that another unpublicized, generally closed meeting was held in Toronto. Despite the fact that I had received an invitation to attend from a colleague involved in the planning, I was unable to secure an official invitation via staff.
I'm happy that you're being entertained. That was a workshop intended for specific 30 participants, not a general constituency meeting. And "wasn't too long ago" still predates the creation of NARALO (and a fully representative ALAC) by about a year. So the correlation is not necessarily identical
I don't think the problem that you've all identified has anything to do with contracted parties, any more than my inability to attend the '06 meeting had anything to do with the ALAC. It's about the contracted parties to the extent that ICANN panders to them and funds regional meetings. Either ICANN is being needlessly paternal or the contracted parties don't *want* the unwashed masses sitting in on their meetings (while they sit in on ours frequently).
Why didn't *you* mention the Toronto meeting before it happened, or complain that it wasn't public? - Evan