Re: [ga] ICANN Announces Cairo to be Site of March 2000 Meetings

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

On 19 December 1999, "Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>Excellent proposals were submitted by a number of prospective hosts in
>Africa and the Middle East, and ICANN thanks all proposers for their
>generous offers of assistance.  While the Cairo host committee's proposal
>best matches ICANN's particular requirements for the March meetings, 


...namely, most of the ICANN BoD has never been to Egypt and wants yet
another vacation they can write off...


>ICANN
>recognizes the importance of sub-Saharan Africa's Internet communities and,
>in particular, is committed to facilitating participation by Africans from
>around the continent.
>

...a lot of us would be interested in spending some holiday time in
Africa as well.



-- 
Mark C. Langston
mark@bitshift.org
Systems Admin
San Jose, CA