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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">ICANN's Public Comment page for the proposed strategy is
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">The "RATIONALE FOR CONSOLIDATED MEETINGS STRATEGY PROPOSAL" is <a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/matching-rules-24sep12-en.pdf">here</a>.</span></font></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Summary of the proposal f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">or ICANN meetings in 2014, 2015, and 2016: </span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Asia/Pacific gets 1st meeting of each year </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Europe gets 2nd meeting of each year</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">North America/Africa/Latin America alternate for the 3rd meeting.</span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Kieren McCarthy: over half of ICANN participants come from North America. It's more pragmatic to make North America one of the regular annual locations. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Chris
Disspain asked, and Nick confirmed that North America has the best availability of suitable venues. But Chris argued against using North America as a regular annual venue because of ICANN's global outreach priority.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Avri Doria: VISA availability is key. Nick: If we pick a facility for re-use, we do better negotiating visas there. Avri: “A good reason not to use North America is that North America is not
nice about visas”</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">DelBianco (NetChoice): The title “Consolidated Meetings” implies fewer ICANN meetings. I don’t see how we can get our work done with just 2 meetings instead of 3. Asked if this 3-year plan is
actually a transition plan to cut the meetings.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Chris said no. Nick Tomaso said “Consolidated” was a term with respect to the meeting locations. Chris agreed. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Euralo secretariat said that those who were denied a Canadian Visa will be on a list that could deny them future visas. (Is this even remotely true?!)</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Hungary GAC rep: the South Africa GAC rep said they were not consulted about Durban location selection. Chris disagreed.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Marguerite (Chilean participant): some countries don’t have venues large enough to meet ICANN’s big-meeting requirements. Asked for flexibility. Chris said it doesn’t work so well if participants
have 20-minute bus rides to the meetings.</font></div>
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<div>Steve DelBianco</div>
<div>Executive Director</div>
<div>NetChoice</div>
<div>http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org </div>
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