<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello everyone,<br>IIn my opinion, the selection of meeting venues should be open up for broader discussion, giving the community opportunity to make inputs that will shape the ICANN's choice. <br><br></div>I will recommend a regular vote, be conducted by venue selection group. This group would have taken into consideration most the factors of concern to the community.<br><br></div>Thank you,<br></div>Benjamin<br><div><div><div> <br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 2:06 AM, <a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avri@doria.org" target="_blank">avri@doria.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>The last one was more of a blue ribbon panel than a proper ccwg.</div><div><br></div><div>I think this requires wide organized discussion. </div><div><br></div><div>We can always invent some new process.</div><div><br></div><div>Avri</div><div><br></div><div id="m_-3617919822411865507composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><span class=""><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: James Gannon <<a href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net" target="_blank">james@cyberinvasion.net</a>> </div><div>Date: 7/8/17 14:07 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:lists@digitaldissidents.org" target="_blank">lists@digitaldissidents.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a> </div><div>Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Selection of ICANN meeting venues and dates </div><div><br></div></div></span><span class="">Agree, the last one didn’t exactly end spectacularly, I think is something that staff can handle given the authority to do si.<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Ncuc-discuss [mailto:<a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc-discuss-bounces@<wbr>lists.ncuc.org</a>] On Behalf Of Niels ten Oever<br>Sent: 08 July 2017 19:05<br>To: <a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br></span><span class="">Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Selection of ICANN meeting venues and dates<br><br><br><br></span><span class="">On 07/08/2017 06:17 PM, farzaneh badii wrote:<br></span><span class="">> Hi everyone,<br>> <br>> The CEO is asking:<br>> <br>> 1) Do you think it is timely to open up a broader discussion about <br>> adding rules on how to choose meeting venues: factors such as gender <br>> issues, democratic principles, and strict rules in observance of <br>> religious holidays, etc., have been among the questions that have been <br>> raised.<br><br></span><span class="">Yes, I suggest similar approach to:<br><br><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process-07" target="_blank">https://tools.ietf.org/html/<wbr>draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-<wbr>venue-selection-process-07</a><br><br>> <br></span><span class="">> 2) How do you anticipate such a discussion to take place?<br>> <br>> Some of you have commented on this already on another thread at NCSG <br>> mailing list. I will relay those comments. But question 2 needs more <br>> answers.<br>> <br>> If you have any particular views please discuss here.<br>> <br><br></span><span class="">Maybe community could be asked for input, which could be re-worked by staff into a document which would be opened for public comment.<br><br>Am not sure we would need a fully fledged ccwg for this.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Niels<br><br><br><br></span><span class="">> Best<br>> <br>> <br>> Farzaneh<br>> <br>> <br>> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>> Ncuc-discuss mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss</a><br>> <br><br></span><span class="">--<br>Niels ten Oever<br>Head of Digital<br><br>Article 19<br><a href="http://www.article19.org" target="_blank">www.article19.org</a><br><br>PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4<br></span> 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 ______________________________<wbr>_________________<span class=""><br>Ncuc-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss</a><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>Ncuc-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss</a><br></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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