[At-Large] Venue Accessibility

[Izumi AIZU]

Even though I may not share ALL the points Evan made, I quite agree
that this issue is worth for ALAC to consider and discuss with ourselves,
as well as with other parts of ICANN.

APRALO discussed on our list that having the Asia Pacific ICANN
meeting in the middle of Chinese New Year time would pose significant
participation problem especially in Eastern Asia where many are affected
by Chinese calender system (not only ethnic Chinese people) and we agreed
that this concern should be conveyed to the ICANN people. So, there
are several factors for our meeting to be improved.

I also like to remind that the meeting commitee also tried to listen to
ICANN community in terms of how we organize the meetings. I don't remember
the details and have llittle time to check, but they held a public workshop on
ICANN meetings and asked for comments and suggestions, and was open
to criticisms as well. I think they are still very open to suggestions, and
aware of the criticisms, too.

thanks,

izumi

2007/12/28, John L <johnl at iecc.com>:
> >> ( e.g. IETF is mainly in the northern countries, no problems about
> >> getting visas for people to travbel to the USA,
>
> Hmmn.  People who are even modestly familiar with the IETF's meeting
> planning know that they're quite aware of US visa problems.  That's why
> they're likely to be meeting in Canada a lot more than they used to.
>
> Sure, the IETF and ICANN are not identical, but their meeting issues are
> more similar than different.  Having been to two years' worth of ICANN
> meetings on ICANN's dime, I can confirm that there's clearly a vast amount
> of extra expense due to so many last minute arrangements.
>
> R's,
> John
>
> PS:
>
> > What I would like to do is to find out of ALAC believes this is a worthy
> > issue, given that IMO the public is being served worse by the status quo
> > than other constituencies.
>
> Yes, definitely.  If I ever go to another ICANN meeting, I'll be paying my
> own way, so cost matters.
>
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