Re: [ga] November 13 GA meeting

["Tim Langdell" <langdell@technologist.com>]

Milton

I concur. From XTNS's perspective, the meeting in November will be the first
we will attend, our not having been able to arrange to attend Montevideo as
it came in the midst of our company launch.

This is likely to be the best attended meeting of the year, with many very
important issues to address. And with widespread concern that issues are not
being addressed swiftly enough, to put 6 months between meetings that would
address them seems difficult to defend.

What has happened is terrible, and to add a session devoted to security
makes excellent sense. Even giving the topic a greater than time compared to
other issues makes sense too. But the ball surely needs to be kept in play
on all the other burning issues as well.

If hiring your own rooms is a way to resolve this, then tell us how we can
help. We are based locally here to the meeting in the Los Angeles area, as
you know.

Tim

Dr. Tim Langdell
CEO
XTNS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Milton Mueller" <mueller@syr.edu>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: [ga] November 13 GA meeting


> I am surprised at how passive you all are being
> about the MdR agenda.
>
> It is exceedingly interesting that those who know
> the most about security (e.g., Rick Wesson) seem
> to be least swayed by the demand to drop everything
> else and focus on it at an ICANN meeting.
>
> By all means, add it to the agenda. But we need
> a full day of constituency meetings and another,
> separate full day for GA and Names Council meetings.
> Danny, I would ask you to rescind your request
> for a November 12 GA meeting, because it would
> conflict with the ability of ICANN participants to
> attend and work in constituency meetings.
>
> Let the Nov 13 GA meeting add some discussion
> of security to its agenda. Probably a two hour
> block will be sufficient.
>
> Let me remind you all that under ICANN's structure,
> the President of the Corporation does not have any
> control over the agenda of Supporting Organizations.
> The Board can ask the DNSO to make policy on things,
> and it can pass or not pass policies given to it
> by the DNSO, but there is simply no way that the
> Board, let alone the President, can tell us when
> we can meet and what we can discuss at our meetings.
> The constituencies, the GA, and the Names Council
> can all set their own agendas.
>
> The only direct control by the President I can see
> comes from the corporation's reservation and support
> for the rooms. So let us, if necessary, raise the
> required money to reserve our own rooms. But before
> doing that, let's at least show that we have SOME
> backbone and request of ICANN that it make room for
> a GA meeting on the 13th.
>
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