Item for today: what is going on in Carthage?
ICANN staff is working away on the Issues Report called for by President Twomey's request to Bruce Tonkin. No action is being taken on new TLDs, as far as anyone can tell. RegistryPro wants permission to register names at the second level (a sensible request, and one they shouldn't even have to make). It looks like the Pro request will go through. And info wants to implement RGP — which will require changes to several appendices.
Meanwhile, where is WLS? And is VeriSign about to reintroduce SiteFinder?
It is frustrating to have these meetings scheduled in places and at times when, in order to attend, everyone has to drop their daily activities and hang around for almost a week. I have personally enjoyed very much going to these meetings, but now that I can't go I wish they were online instead of in-person.
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While I would like to agree with you, I doubt that pure online meetings would be as nearly as productive as a group of people physically sitting in the same place and discussing.
However, I am absolutely unsatisfied with the present “public forum” and online attendance mechanism; I think that ICANN should make an effort to make all open meetings webcast and remotely accessibile; and I am quite worried about the decreasing amount of public general discussion about important issues (which, practically, is the reason why the public forum ended even earlier than scheduled).
Finally, I don't get your point about “places”. These are global meetings and a place that is handy for you is very uncomfortable for me. If what you are suggesting is that ICANN meetings should all be hold in developed countries, or even in the U.S. only, then we couldn't disagree more.
–vb. (Vittorio Bertola)