<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Peter<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, Ed mentioned you were having visa issues, very sorry to hear that. I don’t know if at this point there is anything ICANN staff could do to get the embassy to respond, but if you think it’d help send Rob Hoggarth and Constituency Travel a note with capital letters in the subject line. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Otherwise, do keep us posted, and let’s also try to get ICANN to learn from this experience—I warned them that holding the meeting at this time would raise challenges for us regarding travel permissions due to the timing of the NCUC elections, and that they’d have to be really prompt in helping our international people move the process. It would seem that didn’t work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill<br class="">
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 8, 2015, at 4:21 PM, PeterGreen <<a href="mailto:seekcommunications@hotmail.com" class="">seekcommunications@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Hi Bill, Hi everybody，<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry for slow response in this week. Glad to hear that you all are ready for the upcoming travel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Today, I also received hotel information from Joseph, along with my flight arrangements.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft YaHei', 宋体, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> I may depart from Beijing at 1:20 am, 11th, Jan</span><span style="line-height: 22.719999313354492px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft YaHei', 宋体, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, first to Doha and then to Washington, DC (IAD), arriving at 14:50, 11th, Jan, EST. I may leave DC on 20:20, 14th, Jan.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Currrently, I am struggling and dealing with my visa with the US Embassy in Beiing, which is so hard now. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">On the one hand, there are too many people applying for US vsia in China between Christmas and the New Year vacation, but I have requested an emergent visa application process and fortunately had my consular interview on 2nd, Jan, the Consular Officer initially approved my visa application; on the other hand, due to "visa system issues", the US Embassy can not print the visas since 2nd Jan, which has caused my visa delayed for three days. I could have been able to get my visa on 7th, Jan.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Most lately, just minutes ago, I have checked my visa status on the US Embassy website, it is "ISSUED" by the US Embassy. Because the US Embassy does not accept external telephone calls， I have written to the US Embassy to hopefully request Emergent Visa Delivery and Pickup. I request to get my visa today (8th, Jan), but the US Embassy does not reply.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Now I am under very emergent circumstances. The key is whether the US Embassy could deliver the visa to my designated location by 17:00 of 9th, Jan. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">If that is okay, I could pick up my visa at the earliest time. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">I will be persistent and keep you guys informed.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Looking forward to seeing you in DC.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Best Regards</div><div class="">Peter</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><hr id="stopSpelling" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:caribe@entropia.blog.br" class="">caribe@entropia.blog.br</a><br class="">Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:25:30 -0200<br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" class="">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a><br class="">CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org" class="">ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class="">Subject: Re: [NCUC-EC] DC meetings<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Confirmation from Constituency Travel just arrived, the hotel is Beacon. </div><div class="">See u there.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">_</div>João Carlos Caribé<div class=""><div class="">(21) 8761 1967<br class=""><div class="">Enviado via iPad</div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="">Em 07/01/2015, às 16:54, Joao Carlos Caribe <<a href="mailto:caribe@entropia.blog.br" class="">caribe@entropia.blog.br</a>> escreveu:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div class="">Thanks, </div><div class="">I'll follow you assuming that we will stay at the Beacon. <br class=""><br class=""><div class="">_</div>João Carlos Caribé<div class=""><div class="">(21) 8761 1967<br class=""><div class="">Enviado via iPad</div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="">Em 07/01/2015, às 08:06, Grace Githaiga <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" class="">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>> escreveu:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">@Jaos<div class="">I have written to Joseph a couple of times without success. I am therefore assuming that we will stay at the Beacon.<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:caribe@entropia.blog.br" class="">caribe@entropia.blog.br</a><br class="">Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 07:03:46 -0200<br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a><br class="">CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org" class="">ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class="">Subject: Re: [NCUC-EC] DC meetings<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Someone received the hotel booking information from Constituency Travel? </div><div class="">A couple of days to departure and no one answer from then, all the times is that kind of "emotion" ?<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">_</div>João Carlos Caribé<div class=""><div class="">(21) 8761 1967<br class=""><div class="">Enviado via iPad</div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="">Em 05/01/2015, às 18:08, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> escreveu:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class=""><div class="">Hi all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Attached is the last version of the NCPH meeting agenda that was circulated. I was on a plane during the last planning call and haven’t heard that things have evolved beyond what’s written here, with the exception that I guess (per the conversation on the NCSG PC list) we will propose the global public interest for Slot J. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Could people please indicate what time Sunday they arrive? If the four of you who are coming will arrive in time we could do a dinner + brief meeting Sunday night, which would be a lot more fun and conducive to conversation than a breakfast meeting Monday. I can make a booking or we can just wander in Dupont Circle, lot of choices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. The Wednesday meeting is 10am - noon at CDT, 1634 I Street NW #1100. Unfortunately the notice is short and the timing conflicts with other meetings e.g. at the State Dept, so I don’t know how big a group of locals we might be able to pull in, but as long as we have at least ten plus our side it’s worth doing. Please feel free to reach out to any local contacts of relevance and encourage them to attend (and notify me if so). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. Due to itineraries / availabilities etc. I ended up with a booking arriving Saturday night, which is not exactly how I wanted to spend my birthday but whatever. At least I might be semi-coherent by Monday morning. ICANN says it cannot cover an early extra night of hotel as per Tuesday, so I would like to formally request that we do so from the NCUC piggybank. Constituency Travel hasn’t responded to several pings as to what hotel I’m in but others have said we’re at the Beacon, so I imagine it’ll be in the $200-300 range.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ok…time to get back into the ICANNsphere…four hours of conference calls tomorrow, while grading exams, sigh...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you soon,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div class="">On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:42 PM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Happy new year from London<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope everyone has their DC travel lined up. When I get back to Geneva Monday I will need to move quickly to pull together agendas for our meetings there (and start work on Singapore). To help move this along, please let me know if you have any thoughts/agenda items for this,<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div class="">On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:04 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class="">1st EC Meeting in DC Monday 12 January, 7:30am</b></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ll need to do appointments (per my 18 December message), discuss the annual/quarterly agendas, budget requests, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BTW Matthew has successfully lined up a meeting space for us at CDT for the Wed. 14th outreach meeting, which is great.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">NCUC-EC mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org" class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class=""><div class=""><Agenda - NCPH InterSessional (v5.1-16Dec2014).docx></div></blockquote><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class=""><div class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________</span><br class=""><span class="">NCUC-EC mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org" class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org</a></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a></span><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________ NCUC-EC mailing list<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org" class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class=""><div class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________</span><br class=""><span class="">NCUC-EC mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org" class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org</a></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a></span><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________ NCUC-EC mailing list<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org" class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec" class="">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>