[ALAC] Why is ICANN holding secret meetings with registrars/registries?

[Sébastien Bachollet]

It is one of the reason we specifically write in the context of IIC the
following words:
"In addition, At-Large (ALAC) supports regional meetings open to all the
constituencies and not just select constituencies."

Sébastien Bachollet
Président d'honneur - Isoc France
sebastien.bachollet at isoc.fr
www.egeni.org
www.isoc.fr
 


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-
> lists.icann.org] De la part de Evan Leibovitch
> Envoyé : mercredi 26 août 2009 18:36
> À : At-Large Worldwide
> Cc : Stacy Hoffberg
> Objet : [ALAC] Why is ICANN holding secret meetings with
> registrars/registries?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> On Saturday it came to my attention that ICANN held a secret meeting
> for
> registrars and registries in Toronto.
> 
> Why do I claim it was secret? Because there was no advance notice of
> the
> meeting on ICANN's website, and the results were published only after
> the meeting was over.
> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-25aug09-en.htm
> 
> Living in Toronto, I was actually consulted back in March about local
> hotels; at the time I explicitly asked to be invited to observe. That's
> how I know there was no advance notice of the meeting, I was routinely
> checking after the hotel inquiry. And I certainly received no notice of
> the meeting, let alone an invitation.
> 
> Who knows how many other meetings like this have happened, without
> notice before (or may be even after) they took place?
> 
> Now... why is it that what At-Large does is always under the
> microscope,
> our requests for funding for regional and outreach meetings denied, and
> others are welcome to sit in on our proceedings, but the same rules
> don't apply to  contracted parties? This would have been a perfect
> opportunity to co-host a NARALO meeting, with ICANN already having
> booked favourable room rates etc. At very least, I (and others) should
> have been offered the courtesy to attend as observers. I explicitly
> recall at the Summit, that the registrar people who inserted themselves
> into our working group dicussions were quiet explicit that their
> meetings were as publicly accesible as ours. Apparently that claim was
> a
> lie.
> 
> I am extremely angry over this in a want-to-get-the-Ombudsman-involved
> way; I request a response from ICANN staff and I am asking for ALAC's
> support in this inquiry. As it is unlikely that At-Large staff were
> aware of this meeting either, I am asking for its help in identifying
> the source of this clandestine activity. We are owed an explanation of
> why some ICANN constituencies get to have secret, private regional
> meetings but others do not get to have regional meetings -- private or
> public -- at all.
> 
> - Evan
> 
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