RE: [council] DNSO meetings in Yokohama

["Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com>]

Kathy:

The ICANN Board chose the 15th and 16th of July in order to accommodate
various Directors' schedules.  The local hosts have kindly made available
(for free) a range of rooms on the 14th and 17th of July;  however, the
conference center is not available prior to that.  DNSO groups are of course
welcome to meet earlier than 14 July, but you will have to make (and pay
for) your own meeting arrangements.

Quite contrary to your view, I think it's a good thing for the DNSO to
organize its own meetings, according to its own preferences.  That way, we
won't end up with a ccTLD constituency squeezed into a room that is far too
small.  (As you may have noticed, I'm a very sorry meeting planner -- it's
light-years outside my core competencies.)

I'm delighted that Hiro Hotta has offered to serve as the DNSO's central
coordinator.  I'm sure the organization for Yokohama will be as effective as
it was in Cairo.

--Andrew


[ -----Original Message-----
[ From: owner-council@dnso.org [mailto:owner-council@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
[ KathrynKL@aol.com
[ Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:50 PM
[ To: mclaughlin@pobox.com; council@dnso.org
[ Cc: maruyama@nic.ad.jp; yumi@nic.ad.jp
[ Subject: Re: [council] DNSO meetings in Yokohama
[ 
[ 
[ Andrew:
[ Please forgive me, as I must be missing something.  The ICANN 
[ conference will 
[ be four days, as it was in Cairo and other locations.  Why can't 
[ the schedule 
[ follow that of Cairo?  Is it due to the lack of availability of 
[ the largest 
[ rooms that the ICANN Public Forum and Board meeting?  
[ 
[ After the superb organization and flow of Cairo, this news about 
[ Japan comes 
[ as a real shock.  Leaving the organization of international meeting 
[ facilities to the NC, GA and Constituencies individually may 
[ create a real 
[ problem for how and whether voices are properly heard in Japan.   This 
[ meeting may not be such a good idea. 
[ 
[ Kathy Kleiman 
[ 
[ 
[ 
[ > The JPNIC/INET 2000 organizers have been able to secure
[ >  meeting spaces for July 14 (Friday) to July 17 (Monday), including a 
[ variety
[ >  of room sizes and arrangements.  This means, however, that the 
[ ICANN Public
[ >  Forum and Board meetings will fall on days 2 and 3 of the 4-day meeting
[ >  sequence, rather than on days 3 and 4.
[