<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Heather,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Perhaps the new travel agent replacing BCD will scrap the Forrest rule, which mandates that any flight plan involving you must touch down on at least 4 continents before reaching the ICANN meeting site! At least we can hope...</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Ed<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 8 Feb 2016, at 18:38, Heather Forrest <<a href="mailto:Heather.Forrest@acu.edu.au">Heather.Forrest@acu.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>On a personal level I agree with Ed's suggestion re regional hubs. Re Panama, I was facing the prospect of more time in the air between Tasmania and Panama than on the ground at the meeting.</p>
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<p>At the same time, I'm always willing to travel the huge distance for f2f meetings because I find it invaluable to have everyone in the same room at one time and not be reliant upon AC room queues. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Plus, we all know how those
video links into ICANN public forums from regional locations </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">work (or not).....</span></p>
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<p>Isn't meeting B our WG-focused meeting where we're all head down, locked in a room, trying to make real progress? If so, it likely doesn't suit the regional hub approach, much as the length the meeting and the faraway venue does.</p>
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<div>A meeting with regional hubs for most with dispersed central meeting spots for Council and other like groups might be worth trying, particularly for B. Flying four days to attend a meeting for four days just does not make a lot of sense for many of us. <br>
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On 8 Feb 2016, at 03:58, James M. Bladel <<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Basically with Volker. There’s value in a face-to-face meeting, but ICANN can still do more to facilitate remote participation, especially for meetings (like the one upcoming) where attendance is projected to be lower. And expanded use of remote hubs
/ satellite locations would be preferable to dialing in on your own….</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Volker Greimann <<a href="mailto:vgreimann@key-systems.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">vgreimann@key-systems.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, February 8, 2016 at 4:37 <br>
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I agree that ICANN should improve their capacity for virtual participation, however I feel that ultimately the ability to meet face to face and discuss on the side of the events is very important to a smooth operation of the meeting and cannot completely be
replaced by remote participation. But having better virtual participation options as a choice would be helpful and a great improvement over the sometimes spotty phone bridge.
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Holographic representation would be nice ;-)<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [council] Fwd: [Soac-infoalert] ICANN56 to be Relocated</span></p>
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Thanks for the heads up Phil. Here's the statement from ICANN. </p>
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<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>><br>
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