[CPWG] CPWG - ICANN72 participation

[Bill Jouris]

 I must agree.  
I would dearly love to have an in-person meeting in Seattle.  But at the moment, I think the balance has to be not to do it this year. 
Bill Jouris
    On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 11:32:31 AM PDT, mail at christopherwilkinson.eu CW via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:  
 
  
Good evening:




Domain Name Wire editor, Andrew Alleman is lobbying for an in-person ICANN72 in Seattle, next October:


https://domainnamewire.com/2021/07/14/icanns-board-should-go-forward-with-in-person-seattle-meeting/
May I say that I think this is a rather bad idea. It would be premature visà vis Covid 19 and extremely difficult to obtain balanced participation with present travel funding policies.



   
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Covid 19 : irrespective of more generalized vaccinations and testing, it is likely that many participants will have to quarantine for several days on arrival and/or on returning home. At present this is typically 10 days for some countries.   
   
Who knows what the situation will be world-wide in October?   
   


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Balanced participation: Apparently in support of their case, their blurb notes that “Seattle is home to a large (and growing) number of domain name companies”. So be it, but there are also an even larger number of domain name companies which are NOT in Seattle.   
   


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US Visas : most non-US participants will have to get a new ESTA travel permit ;    
e.g. mine has certainly expired.   
   
ALAC and CPWG may reach their own conclusions about achieving balanced AC/SO participation in these circumstances. In my view, an in-person ICANN72 dominated by local domain name companies hardly inspires confidence in the light of At Large's declared objectives for the future.
   
   
   
CW, Xàbia, July 2021
   
   
   

   
   
    
   




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