Hello fellow NARALOers, I would like to ask for the help -- or at least the endorsement -- of others within NARALO regarding the lodging of a complaint with the ICANN Ombudsman. It's regarding the fact that ICANN regional meetings for registrars and registries are closed to the public, specifically the one that was recently held in Toronto. At first I thought this was simply an issue of notification -- that ICANN staff deliberately withheld meeting notice. I sent a message to the ALAC mailing list in this regard -- if you don't have the old mail you can find it archived at http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2009/0... Today I found out that it was worse than that -- that an ICANN-savvy person, Richard Sexton, was at the meeting but forcably removed (ie, ICANN staff called security). The details on this are at Richard's website: http://rs79.vrx.net/works/observations/dns/events/icann/meetings/toronto/ I have received an email from Craig Schwartz, who ran the meeting, with a personal committment to do better in the future. I requested that such a commitment be made public but have not heard any response yet. Repeated emails and phone calls to Stacy -- and even a plea with Nick, when he was down in California, to ask her to call me, have been unanswered. The new knowledge -- that the only member of the public to show up at the meeting was forcably evicted -- makes this more than an error of omission, and significantly more serious than I originally alleged. I would like the input of others here, especially those with some ICANN history who can offer some advice. I'm getting more angry about this rather than less. Right now my intent is to enlist the help of a few people here to help create the complaint, then to get it endorsed by NARALO, and hopefully other regions and/or ALAC. - Evan