RE: [gnso-osc] Attending Nairobi

["Ron Andruff" <randruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear fellow OSC members,

 

This is just a note to confirm that I will be attending the Nairobi meeting,
if someone is making a list of those attending and those not.

 

Kind regards,

 

RA

 

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From: owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Vanda UOL
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:33 AM
To: 'Philip Sheppard'; gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gnso-osc] FW: Cancellation Nairobi

 

Dear Phillip

 ICANN will have several facilities for remote participations, I guess you
will find the remote participation useful for you to attend the meeting.

Follow ICANN web site to see improvements for this meeting.

Best to all

 

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Vanda Scartezini

Polo Consultores Associados

Alameda Santos 1470 #1407

Tel - +55.11.3266.6253

Mob- +55.11.8181.1464

vanda@xxxxxxxxxx

 

 

 

From: owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Philip Sheppard
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:21 AM
To: gnso-osc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-osc] FW: Cancellation Nairobi

 

Chuck,

fellow OSC people

Thank you for the informal vote of confidence as OSC chair.

I would like you to see this message below.

In these circumstances should the Nairobi meetings go ahead, it may make
sense for me to take over as Chair of the OSC immediately after Nairobi.

Philip

 

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As a result of the unconfirmed terrorist threat in Nairobi which is both
current (February 2010) and specific (the KICC conference venue) my
organisation has requested I do not attend the meeting in Nairobi. I support
their views.

 

I am a hardened and seasoned traveller and will tell you over a drink some
of the non-ICANN places I have visited that pose certain security issues !

In ten years of ICANN meetings we have met in places with a generic danger
of street crime (Sao Paolo, Rio, Cape Town) but never before have we
received specific and timely information of this nature. 

It is significant that registrations are low.

The Intellectual Property Constituency has as a group decided to not attend.

GoDaddy to protect its employees has cancelled.

 

If ICANN does consider cancellation, a way to save face may be to say that
participation at the meeting has fallen below a critical mass to make the
meeting effective and fit for purpose. A series of on-line /telephone
conferences for time-critical issues may be a way forward.

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