[ga] Re: [NA-Discuss] Open Letter on ICANN Non-Openness

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have received this note:

"The meeting being referred to (which I am presently at) is not an ICANN 
meeting, nor organised by ICANN. There are a couple of invited ICANN guest 
speakers, myself included, but it has been organised by the .RU registry."

Having noted the regional gathering of the supplier clan at New Orleans, the 
regional gathering of the registry-registrar Trade Association at Dubai, and 
the back-to-back meetings of the registry-registrar Guild at Bulgaria and 
Korea, one can rightly understand why the public may be confused as to which 
meeting of the Cartel is designated as "official" or "unofficial".

What is quite clear, however, is that while ICANN expends significant resources 
in support of these supplier sessions, when the at-large community asks for a 
meager amount of funding for regional events, it is routinely told that there 
are no funds in the budget to accommodate the requests.

At least now we know where the money is going...