RE: [Membership] Remote Participation in the Singapore Open Meeting

[Michael Gendron <mgendron@gcstech.com>]

OK, but APRICOT is an Asian-Pacific event - how about the rest of us who can not afford to attend the ICANN meeting?  Should it be held to take advantage of APRICOT?  Just a lot of questions on my mind.  

This really seems to bias the ICANN meeting to participants with money or from that part of the world.  Sure that happens with all meetings, but I am not sure  the rational of "taking advantage of another pair of events" is sufficient.  As Bob Allisat has said in many ways, the political tone in Singapore might not be the right venue for a democratic event.


-----Original Message-----
From:	David Schutt [SMTP:david@speco.com]
Sent:	Friday, February 19, 1999 8:59 AM
To:	membership@icann.org
Subject:	[Membership] Remote Participation in the Singapore Open Meeting

Not obscure, just very far away.

ICANN is taking advantage of another pair of events, see

http://www.apng.org/apricot99/

David Schutt


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:42 PM
To: 'Bob Allisat'; Ben Edelman
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Subject: RE: [Membership] Remote Participation in the Singapore Open
Meeting


I appreciate the attempt at a real video connection, but how did Singapore
get selected?  Where are the majority of the people coming from?  That part
of the world?  It just seems like an obscure place for such a meeting.

Michael Gendron