ICANN Meeting schedule - please announce as in advance as possible

[Kilnam Chon <chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr>]

Please make meeting announcements as EARLY as possible.
People in many countries need these information in ADVANCE, from several
weeks to several months(unlike some people in USA and other countries, who
need only a few days' notice).

To start with, please announce the following at ICANN Website;

1. ICANN Singapore Meetings
	does the meetings include *SO meetings?  at DNSO, many of us think
	that there are DNSO-related meeting at Singapore.

2. ICANN Berlin Meetings, late April
	please announce with the above tentative schedule if you don't have
	any further information on this matter.
	
3. ICANN Latin America Meetigns, August
	(same as above)

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:01:24PM -0500, Esther Dyson wrote:
> We have an international board, we will have an international membership,
> and we are an international organization.  GIven the international nature of
> the board/ membership, holding meetings outside the US does not necessarily
> add to our travel costs.  (THe full board will have even more geographic
> diversity than the current Initial Board, and will definitely include - per
> the bylaws (Article V, Section 6) - someone from Latin America/Caribbean,
> along with at least one person from five other listed geogrpahic regions.) 
> 
> FWIW, the board is holding its next large-scale public meeting n Singapore
> on March 3, in conjunction with APRICOT.  There wil also be a number of
> commiittee meetings on March 2, and a board meeting on March 4.  In late
  ???????????????????

> April, we'll be having another such meeting in Berlin. And in August we plan
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> to meet in Latin America.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> 
> Esther Dyson
> 
> At 10:56 PM 14/01/99 -0500, Michael Sondow wrote:
> >Roberts, Erica a écrit:
> >> 
> >> Talking about the rest of the world - have you forgotten that over half
> >> the world population is in the Asia Pacific region?????  What
> >> consultation is being conducted here???
> >
> >There will be an ICANN meeting in Singapore in February or early March, I
> >believe. But of course you're right, most of what's going on is happening in
> >the U.S.A. And that may not ever change, because ICANN is incorporated in
> >the U.S.A. and derives its authority from a contract with the U.S.
> >Government. So, while a certain amount of lip-service will be paid to the
> >rest of the world in the form of conferences and such, and there will be
> >members from the rest of the world, ICANN will remain a U.S. phenomenon, at
> >least until there is some credible international agency to replace or absorb
> >it. 
> >
> >Even then, though, how much travelling could it afford to pay? Only if its
> >revenues became large, through a tax on domain names and addresses, could
> >ICANN afford to conduct its affairs on a truly international basis.
> >
> >BTW, I think this would be an excellent thread to start and pursue, don't
> >you? Shall we pose the question?: How will ICANN assure an international
> >membership?
> >
> 
> 
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