Reports from MdP

[Erick Iriarte Ahon]

In Luxemburg will be Volley Tournament.

Erick


At 12:24 a.m. 11/04/2005, Robin Gross wrote:
>At GNSO meetings, the counsel selected a "top 3" issues to work on in
>the coming year.  The sense was to focus on whois database issues, input
>into the strategic plan, and gtlds issues.  Of course these are just the
>top three, not the only issues the counsel will consider.  Mike Palage
>was unanimously re-elected to another board seat (#14).  The GNSO
>complained about the short time frame between when ICANN posts documents
>and ICANN meetings at which these documents are to be referenced.  We
>hope to get a policy in place requiring ICANN to post documents x days
>before the meeting.
>
>NCUC and ALAC engaged in some discussions to consider ways to broaden
>and strengthen civil society participation at ICANN.  Some possibilities
>suggested were pushing for ICANN to have a vote on the GNSO Counsel and
>/ or to select a seat to the ICANN board.  While there was unanimous
>agreement that civil society needs to work together more, no joint goals
>were reached while I was there.  I left Wednesday and there subsequent
>meetings, so perhaps someone who stayed could say if anything else was
>discussed or agreed to among ALAC and NCUC folks at the end of the week.
>
>The soccer tournament:  Thanks to Norbert for his fancy footwork, and
>Frannie for her cheerleading and photo taking, and Ross Rader from the
>GNSO and his Twocows co-worker James for joining our team, and two
>people named Stewart recruited moments before the game, the NCUC team
>took home a third place medal in our bracket.  We beat the ICANN board
>and staff team, then lost to the cctld team, and then lost to the
>champions and hosts CABASE, an all Argentine team that had been
>practicing together for weeks.  [I look forward to the rematch in Canada
>this fall against the Argentines when the tournament will be curling! ;-)]
>
>We were supposed to play the GAC team in the championship (for overall
>5th place), but the game was called due to time.   The ALAC team
>received 3nd place in tournament, and an ad-mix of folks comprised the
>second place team in the tournament.  We are going to need more NCUC
>participation in Luxembourg.  It could be volleyball, it could be
>basketball, it could be anthing, but we need more players on the field,
>team.
>
>Those at the opening reception were lucky to watch Vint Cerf tango with
>the best of them!
>
>Robin
>
>
>Milton Mueller wrote:
>
>>Anyone who wants to write up an account of what happened at Mar del
>>Plata ICANN meeting please send me something for posting on the web
>>site.
>>
>>--MM
>>
>>Dr. Milton Mueller
>>Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>>http://www.digital-convergence.org
>>http://www.internetgovernance.org