Re: Chopped liver no more! Was Re: do we want......?

[Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com>]

My calendar is on on March 18-19 for a meeting i NoCal...\Stef

>From your message Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:53:46 -0500:
}
}Ellen, 
}
}As you know, these things are pretty random, with sometimes unfortunate
}side-effects.  And I  know this is not a solution (just an amelioration) but
}I'd be happy to meet with you (and whomever you can round up) the next time
}I'm in California, on March 18, if you can find your way to San Francisco.
}FWIW, I'll be coming in from the IETF meeting in Minneapolis.
}
}Esther
}
}
}At 06:40 PM 13/02/99 -0800, Ellen Rony wrote:
}>Esther Dyson wrote:
}>
}>>Maybe there should be a meeting *about* constituencies, as opposed to
}>>necessarily *of* constituencies.
}>>
}>>Even the Paris draft suggests that there will be constituencies, just that
}>>they will not be pre-defined:
}>>
}>>"Members of the General Assembly shall self-organize into diverse
}>>constituencies. No member shall be a member of more than one constituency. The
}>>initial constituencies shall be recognized by the ICANN Board based on the
}>>following criteria: ....."
}>
}>Agreed, but if past is prologue, the only people who can make that point
}>are those who have both time and opportunity to travel to Singapore.
}>
}>Not a single meeting since the IFWP process began last July has been held
}>on the West Coast. Two meetings in Singapore; one in Buenos Aires, about
}>four on the East Coast in the Boston/Washington/Virginia environs, one in
}>Geneva, one in Barcelona, one in Monterrey.
}>
}>NADA in California, where ICANN is incorporated.  What are we here, chopped
}>liver?
}>
}>
}>Ellen Rony
}>Co-author
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