[NA-Discuss] NARALO 2009 Regional Meeting

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello all,

I noticed, while going through the calendar, that there is no ICANN
meeting scheduled for the North American Region until Oct 17-23, 2010.

Usually ALSs are invited to have their regional in-person meets at the
local ICANN meeting. It is my recollection that, if there is no meeting
taking place in a region during a calendar year, policy allows that ALSs
of that region are entitled to have an in-person regional meeting. I
believe there is a precedent already, a meeting held February 2007 by
APRALO in Bali. (I also seem to recall that a proposal last year for a
EURALO meeting for Geneva was refused...)

In 2007 we met in San Juan, and I anticipate we will all be at the
Summit in November this year. However, there will be no North American
ICANN meeting in calendar 2009, and I would like everyone to start
thinking about a good time and place to hold a regional ALS meeting in
Sep/Oct of next year (which would be halfway between the Summit and the
Oct 2010 meeting). Because the number of people involved is so small, it
could be held anywhere. Perhaps adjacent to another conference?

Once upon a time there was a plan to meet, before signing the MOU, at
Consumers Union in Yonkers NY.
Beau, is that offer still open?

There' s no rush, but I just want to toss the idea out to make sure it's
not forgotten, in the ICANN budget or otherwise.

Nick, what have other regions done in planning this kind of meeting? How
much advance notice is needed?

- Evan