[council] Preliminary planning for ICANN58

[James M. Bladel]

Just a note that the Meeting Strategy Working Group examined the idea of “rotating hubs”, and rejected them.  Mostly by folks from smaller and/or more distant locations who were concerned that ICANN would be permanently absent from their region.

I don’t agree, but that was their finding.

Thanks –

J.

On 11/28/16, 11:59 , "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" <michele at blacknight.com> wrote:

    Carlos
    
    Ah ok, so the ICANN hubs.
    That makes a lot of sense from a cost and logistics perspective. 
    
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    On 28/11/2016, 11:33, "Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G." <crg at isoc-cr.org> wrote:
    
        ICANN hubs: LA, Istambul and Singapore.
        
        I assume that those places are central located in terms of airlines 
        logistics, already have a minimum of ICANN staff available, facilites, 
        etc. and would greatly reduce the cost to set up meetings (A recent 
        meeting of the CCT-RT in Washington DC had to fly in as many ICANN staff 
        members as RT members, which calls for more reasonable places to meet, 
        particularly for mainle “working” meetings like the Policy Format 
        calls for).
        
        Cheers
        
        Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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        On 26 Nov 2016, at 10:14, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
        
        > Carlos
        >
        > Which locations would you see as being “hubs”?
        >
        > Regards
        >
        > Michele
        >
        >
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