RE: [names] Re: [council] Urgent! : response is required : ICANNYokohama

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto.gaetano@voila.fr>]

Theresa,

>Given this history, seems to me there are only a limited number of 
options:
>
>1) Seek funding for webcasting, and do so immediately.
>2) Find another way to cover the cost, as long as functional and done
>quickly. E.g., a meeting room entrance charge (this used to be done at 
IFWP
>meetings); or other kind of fee for use of the webcasting. I don't know
 how
>this could function - but throw it out as food for thought.
>3) Not webcast, and deal with the consequences.
>



I like option 1), even if I realize that the most likely is, 
unfortunately, option 3).
I have sent a message to the GA, raising the issue, and we will see if 
we can raise some funds.
Option 2) is probably not the best way to proceed. It may raise more 
problems that it solves, even if it was used in the past (not only at 
IFWP, also at ICANN meetings - Singapore '99, for example).

What I would appreciate the NC doing is to look at the problem and to 
plan future meetings in a different way.
Most of the criticism I have recently witnessed in association with the 
Yokohama meeting is definitively out of place, in particular when 
addressed to the local hosts that are doing what is humanly possible, 
and maybe more, to do to satisfy all these concurrent, sometimes 
conflicting, needs. But lessons should be learned in order to improve in
 the future.

Therefore, may I suggest that, no matter what happens for Yokohama, the 
NC addresses the following points:
- planning of the ICANN meetings allowing *at least* two days before the
 ICANN public session to be dedicated to Constituencies meetings, WGs, 
GA and NC, possibly with the layout that we used in Cairo, that proved 
succesful and satisfactory to everybody;
- fundraising for the Webcast of *at least* GA + NC meetings, not 
excluding possibilities like sponsorship: I think that it will be much 
better for people to be able to have the Webcast, even with some 
advertisement icons, than nothing.

Regards
Roberto