[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Event News

[Edward Morris]

Hi Bill,

Obviously I misunderstood. Apologies.

Ed



On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hi Ed
>
> On May 28, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Edward Morris <edward.morris at ALUMNI.USC.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> There was a gentleman in our group who earlier in the year, though, got me
> thinking. He told me he wanted to make sure the NCUC was not seen as the
> programming arm of ICANN. He argued against events at every Meeting. At
> first I disagreed then, I thought, he has a point. This isn't what we are
> about. That man was Bill Drake.
>
>
> I believe I was there then, and that what he said was that it would be a
> mistake to try to organize a full one day conference before every ICANN
> meeting, as another colleague had enthusiastically suggested.  I don't
> think he was saying he opposed ever doing a workshop on a subject of hot
> debate at a meeting where the GAC and Board will both be trying to decide
> stuff; that strikes me as a juicy opportunity, sort of thing he'd go for.
>  I also don't think he agrees that workshops are just academic playthings
> unrelated to advocacy, but will check.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
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