Re: [ga] ICANN Announces Cairo to be Site of March 2000 Meetings

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Mark C. Langston wrote:
> 
> On 19 December 1999, "Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >Excellent proposals were submitted by a number of prospective hosts in
> >Africa and the Middle East, and ICANN thanks all proposers for their
> >generous offers of assistance.  While the Cairo host committee's proposal
> >best matches ICANN's particular requirements for the March meetings,
> 
> ...namely, most of the ICANN BoD has never been to Egypt and wants yet
> another vacation they can write off...

There is also the cultural interest. It should be fascinating to
spend a few days in a country where women's sexual organs are
amputated when they are adolescents, don't you think?

Michael S.