[registrars] ICANN Meeting

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine]

Thomas, Jean-Michel

Having attended a couple of ICANN meetings (Stockholm, Montevedeo, MdR,
and Rome), and on-lined more, from Berlin onwards, I agree with both of
your major points -- registrar face-to-face time can be extended from
the ICANN Staff provisioned "slot", and usefully incorporate face-to-face
time with participants other than registrars, and getting most issues out
on day one, with resolution(s), if any, (leading to on-line ballots where
appropriate) on days subsequent, is a good model. We will need to relieve
ICANN Staff and the Host of the place-and-time management responsibility,
since their usual practice is 9am-to-3pm-Tuesday.

Additionally, the note taking or information relayed to the rest of the
constituency this time really hasn't happened, which can't be helpful to
some -- I got clicks when I dialed in, and basically Amadeu's blog is
the better source of information. I get better "breaking news" from ABC's
political news division that uses email to in addition to the web, than
from ICANN that simply posts to the web at most once a day.

A better web site would be good too.

Eric