Honolulu sounds like a good compromise for March. I would not expend any efforts in changing the time to June. -ed On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
At the last NARALO call there was a brief discussion on where and who might want to bid for a city to host ICANN the next time its meeting schedule passes through North America.
The currently proposed date for the next NA meeting is March 2011. This date IMO eliminates a substantial part of North America from reasonably being able to submit a bid on climate grounds.
During the call the meeting Seth agreed to investigate the suitability of Honolulu for the 2011 meeting, and I can certainly agree that it would be a great global destination in March. However once I received the notice below it seems there may be a window through which we can suggest to make the North American meeting the June one. That would make other centres of interest eligible (Boston, Toronto, Montreal).
What do you think? Should NARALO send a response (and/or ask for ALAC's endorsement) to make the 2011 North American meeting the one in June?
And does staff have any input on this matter?
- Evan
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