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

[HiroHOTTA <hotta@green.ocn.ne.jp>]

From the point of room availability, I think 
  (a) July 12 and 13 is still available for setting up 
       the webcast facility
  (b) July 14 is still available for DNSO-GA and GA
       with webcasting if other conditions are met
I'm away from Japan now, and I cannot contact with the
local host at this moment. I'll send a mail to the 
local host to confirm this.

Hiro

> Date: 2 May 2000 23:13:00 +0900
> From: "Theresa Swinehart"<Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com>
> Subject: RE: [names] Re: [council] Urgent! : response is required :ICANNYo
kohama
> To: roberto.gaetano@voila.fr
> Cc: h.hotta@hco.ntt.co.jp,council@dnso.org,mclaughlin@pobox.com,edelman@la
w.harvard.edu,maruyama@nic.ad.jp,yumi@nic.ad.jp
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> 
> Roberto,
> 
> Thanks for your note - I have to agree we need to try. Ben, Andrew, Hiro, is
> this still an option at this point with timing?
> 
> If so, I guess by default, I'm volunteering to see whether we can get
> funding for the webcasting. But I'm volunteering only on the condition that
> it's noted I cannot commit the time needed do this alone - others will need
> to help out. I'd suggest that Ken, if you agree, you and I work on a
> proposal together with Hiro and Roberto. Roberto, we'll need your continued
> help to work with the GA on exploring whether funds can be raised there as
> well.
> 
> Ben - how much do we need? I need a number.
> 
> Andrew, what are some places to put in funding proposals to? Markel? Others?
> 
> Ken, Hiro, Roberto - will you be able to help work on this?
> 
> Theresa
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roberto Gaetano [mailto:roberto.gaetano@voila.fr]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:43 AM
> To:	Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com
> Cc:	h.hotta@hco.ntt.co.jp; council@dnso.org; mclaughlin@pobox.com;
> edelman@law.harvard.edu; maruyama@nic.ad.jp; yumi@nic.ad.jp
> Subject:	RE: [names] Re: [council] Urgent! : response is required
> :ICANNYokohama
> 
> 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
>  



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Hirofumi Hotta
R&D Strategy, NTT