[NA-Discuss] Reminder for San Juan Attendees

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear LAC, NA, and ALAC members:

It is difficult to put this delicately; I hope everyone will  
understand that I am not trying to make judgments, but to notify you  
of a problem which is causing the community's reputation to suffer.

There have been a number of complaints about members of LAC, NA, and  
the ALAC eating from the meals provided for the staff and at other  
functions.  Apparently one person is routinely visiting the staff  
breakfast every morning to have breakfast 'on the staff'.

This has led to some comments that the number of people eating the  
food of others has risen dramatically at this ICANN meeting, leading  
in turn to comments that the per-diem system is the reason why.

May I remind everyone to please avoid eating food which is not  
arranged for members of the community, or which is not clearly made  
available to all attendees (such as evening events which everyone is  
invited to). While it may seem that a meal which is sponsored by a  
commercial entity should be OK to eat at, since this hotel is  
charging by the plate, and sponsors have paid for only a certain  
number of plates, it is possible for a knock-on effect to happen  
whereby sponsorship opportunities could be reduced.

The number of times this has happened at this meeting is at the point  
where it is making all of At-Large look bad. It is not isolated to  
any one of the three groups present; there have been instances  
involving all three groups.


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Nick Ashton-Hart
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-- 
Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
Director, At-Large
ICANN
PO Box 32160
London N4 2XY
United Kingdom
Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011]
USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460
Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135
mobile: +44 (7774) 932798
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