Re: [ga] North American Regional Registry/Registrar Gathering

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try as I may, I cannot find any examples of ICANN wasting money on helping the dotcommoner contribute to the great registry/registrar - ICANN dialogue, including being gracious.  Perhaps they should consider some form of affirmative action to scholarship a stakeholder of the lowest order.
   
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Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> The information that I have is that this is an informational meeting with NA
> registries and registrars, to exchange opinions and to allow these
> constituencies to meet also the ICANN staff that they normally don't during
> the official ICANN meetings.

I get the impression from reading what has been posted that there is a 
sense among those who are registries or registrars that the meeting will 
be about their relationship and not be of interest to others.

That may well be true.

However, the members of the community of internet ought to be able to 
look for themselves - and be bored if the registries and registrars 
prove right. And nobody is saying that these meetings are closed to 
someone who just shows up, right?

But I'd also like to mention that the 5-day grace (tasting) issue has 
its roots (bad pun intended) in the registry/registrar relationship. 
And so does the factual basis, if any, for the huge fiat registry fees 
that ICANN permits registries to charge.

I personally don't feel comfortable about ICANN subsidies for meeting 
attendance - but given how deeply ICANN has scrod the community of 
internet users, it seems that a few token dribbles might be possible - 
particularly when we remember that ICANN has established expensive field 
offices around the world for no purpose more substantial than the desire 
to "show the flag".

--karl--


 
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