[NA-Discuss] Report from Secretariat's Meeting

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Just a couple of clarifications here:

On point 2, ICANN doesn't hire the sound and A/V people for ICANN  
meetings - these people are actually chosen and retained by the host  
committees for each meeting and so the level of skill which these  
technicians have is entirely dependent upon the choices the host  
committee makes.

The LA meeting is different in that ICANN is contracting for all of  
the services for the meeting, since it has extraordinarily been held  
in the USA instead of in Asia as originally planned. This is allowing  
us to make arrangements for the meeting on a 'clean sheet of paper'  
basis in many ways, whereas in the normal course of events the  
relationships between what ICANN provides and what the host  
committees provides is a structured one that is the same for each  
meeting (the RFP for meeting hosts can be found on icann.org if  
anyone is interested in this subject.)

It is also worth noting that the growth in meetings and the  
requirements for interpretation, remote participation, and the like  
have changed dramatically over the last few meetings - especially for  
the at-large community, as the number of people attending ICANN  
meetings has dramatically increased - and our needs have grown  
correspondingly. The meetings staff are working to change the way  
things work to accomodate all these needs and they are very aware of  
the needs in this area.

On 11 Sep 2007, at 01:40, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As mentioned on the telephone conf. today, we had a Secretariat's  
> conference this evening and I was to make a couple of enquiries:
>
> 1.  Question:  Why doesn't the region get to select its own people  
> coming to LA rather than ICANN dictating to them?  Answer:  Its  
> actually only one person per region coming to LA.  Apparently some  
> of the regions don't have a chair or don't have a secretariat.  If  
> the region doesn't have a Secretariat, the Chair goes.  If the  
> region has both, the Secretariat goes.  So, its only one person per  
> region, mainly Secretariats, and that is how they were chosen.
>
> 2.  Concern:  We need to make remote participation MUCH better.   
> Answer:  This is one of Nick's pet peeves.  Apparently, ICANN has  
> been in the habit of hiring the cheapest of the cheap for sound so,  
> you get what you pay for.  Nick has been promised that, this year,  
> they are paying for someone competent.  He has been bringing this  
> up to the "higher ups" on a frequent basis.
>
> D
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