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RE: [registrars] thoughts for conference today

  • To: "'Elana Broitman'" <ebroitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <wessorh@xxxxxx>, "'Bruce Tonkin'" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [registrars] thoughts for conference today
  • From: "Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:23:32 +0530
  • Cc: "'Larry Erlich'" <erlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <registrars@xxxxxxxx>
  • In-reply-to: <BCAAA5D64C837641A9EBB93E2A5089480A0C648C@ex2k01.corp.register.com>
  • Sender: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> For example, why shouldn't participants pay for meetings.  
> ICANN proposed a 2.4mm budget for travel and meetings. Direct 
> participation fees can alleviate some part of that.    Let's 
> face it - ICANN locates its meetings in far-flung locations, 
> so that most of us are paying high air fare, and all of us 
> are paying non inconsiderable amounts for hotel, per diem, 
> etc.  Therefore a fee of about $500/person should not be a 
> burden or prevent someone from attending.  Plus, remote 

The issue is a lot of smaller registrars will stop attending. Any additional
cost may result in a decrease in attendance and a decrease in the number of
voices and participants at these meetings.

I am not disagreeing however that ICANN should look at some other way to
subsidise that budget.

bhavin
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