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

[Alan Greenberg]

ICANN is listed under the heading "With the participation of" but not 
as an organizer or sponsor. This seems to go along with the note that 
Danny attached. I would presume (but have never looked into) that 
ICANN people speak at lots of closed meetings.

Now whether ICANN should put resources into such events is a 
management decision based on perceived benefits (or risks of not 
having ICANN speakers and thus ceding the floor to perhaps less 
informed people) and clearly a subject that we can agree or disagree on.

Alan

At 10/09/2008 10:29 AM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
>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
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>[mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny
>Younger
>Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:16 AM
>To: 'NA Discuss'
>Cc: ga at gnso.icann.org
>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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