[NA-Discuss] Open Letter on ICANN Non-Openness

[Thompson, Darlene]

Well, I'm confused.  When I looked at the web link for the RU conference
and clicked on organizers, ICANN is listed.

Darlene A. Thompson
Community Access Program Administrator
Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP
P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
Phone:  (867) 975-5631
Fax:  (867) 975-5610
E-mail:  dthompson at gov.nu.ca
 

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[mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny
Younger
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Open Letter on ICANN Non-Openness

I have received this note:

"The meeting being referred to (which I am presently at) is not an ICANN
meeting, nor organised by ICANN. There are a couple of invited ICANN
guest speakers, myself included, but it has been organised by the .RU
registry."

Having noted the regional gathering of the supplier clan at New Orleans,
the regional gathering of the registry-registrar Trade Association at
Dubai, and the back-to-back meetings of the registry-registrar Guild at
Bulgaria and Korea, one can rightly understand why the public may be
confused as to which meeting of the Cartel is designated as "official"
or "unofficial".

What is quite clear, however, is that while ICANN expends significant
resources in support of these supplier sessions, when the at-large
community asks for a meager amount of funding for regional events, it is
routinely told that there are no funds in the budget to accommodate the
requests.

At least now we know where the money is going...


      

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