Re: [alac] ICANNtriva on pre-registration

["Roberto Gaetano" <alac_liaison@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I am catching up after forced absence from my email.

A couple of comments on this one.

First, I agree with Vittorio, a meeting of an American corporation in an 
Arab country is not exactly the place where I would allow people in without 
proper procedures. Quite the contrary, I am amazed by the average sloppyness 
in the checking in the average ICANN meeting, given the circumstances. I am 
now in Vienna, looking at the security in place in occasion of President 
Bush's visit (incidentally, who will pay for the security, the loss of 
business of the commerce in the forbidden zone, etc.?), and see things that 
Vienna has never seen before since the ending of the military occupation 
after WWII.

Besides, I find it pretty common to be asked an ID going to certain places. 
I remember years ago when I went to the US Senate I had to leave the 
passport at the entrance to get it back when going out. And I don't remember 
anybody complaining about the loss of privacy.
Personally, I am very very much more concerned about the people who would 
like to participate and cannot because of different reasons, mostly 
economical I would guess, rather than somebody who wants to enter an ICANN 
meeting without an ID.

Last but not least, I believe that the security measures are defined in 
collaboration with the hosting organization, and therefore will follow the 
local practices and regulations. Although ICANN has a say, the matter is 
agreed in the preparatory meetings. Just for the sake of curiosity, we could 
ask Giovanni Seppia, who was in the organizing committee for the Rome 
meeting.

Regards,
Roberto GAETANO
ALAC
ICANN BoD Liaison





> From: Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: jam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, alac@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [alac] ICANNtriva on pre-registration
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:02:27 +0200
>
> Wendy Seltzer ha scritto:
> > The meeting hosts wouldn't let anyone in without a badge, and wouldn't let 
> > anyone get a badge without providing a name.  The person I was talking to 
> > didn't try to claim someone else's name, he just didn't think he should be 
> > compelled to provide his own either.
>
> Perhaps we could ask for people to be identified at the registration desk 
> but be able to write whatever they like on the badge? I think this could be 
> a reasonable compromise, and it would not impact on the existing 
> infrastructure and procedures (in fact, you could already do it on the 
> present preregistration form, which has a space for "name to appear on 
> badge").
>
> I am not happy with forcing people to declare their true name at 
> registration, but I am also not sure that letting totally unidentified 
> people wander through the meeting is a good idea. Perhaps this could be 
> allowed for public events such as the public forum, but still I do see 
> security (and appearance-of-security :( ) concerns, especially in the 
> meeting of an American organization in an Arab country.
> --
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...

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