[council] Community Notice: Revised Process for Selection of Sites for ICANN International Public Meetings

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Community Notice: Revised Process for Selection of Sites for ICANN 
International Public Meetings

http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-21jun10-en.htm

21 June 2010

The ICANN Board Committee on Public Participation has approved a modified 
process for identifying the location of ICANN International Public Meetings. 
The bid process by which ICANN Meeting sites have been chosen in the past 
inherently limits the range of choices to cities and venues to those that 
submit a bid. The goal of the modified process is to continue to inform and 
consult ICANN stakeholders on locations of ICANN Meetings, while ensuring that 
the venues ultimately selected provide the best combination of logistics and 
security for all ICANN Meeting delegates.

This modified selection process will maintain the current practice of regional 
rotation of ICANN Meetings, and those in the geographic region will continue to 
be invited to submit recommendations for specific locations. These recommended 
venues, along with others in the region that meet the established selection 
criteria, will be considered. The final location for the ICANN Meeting will 
then be selected through the evaluation of both community-recommended and 
ICANN-identified locations.

This new meeting site selection process will be implemented beginning with the 
40th ICANN International Meeting to be held 13-18 March 2011 in North America. 
An announcement requesting location recommendations from the ICANN community 
will be posted on 21 July 2010. It will contain the criteria by which sites 
will be evaluated.

ICANN welcomes your feedback on this revised meeting site selection process and 
will consider that input to aid in future enhancements to the process.

David A. Olive
Vice President, Policy Development Support
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
1101 New York Avenue, NW - Suite 930 - Washington, D.C.    20005
Office: 202.570.7126      Mobile:  202.341.3611