Colleagues,
The below note and attached letter suggest concerns regarding the
openness of ICANN meetings. While I can understand the Sofia meeting
is supposed to involve discussions among regional ccTLD registries
and registrars, for the sake of transparency, I think others should
be allowed to see what goes on in those meetings.
Has anyone else heard anything about problems participating in these
ICANN meetings?
Thanks,
Robin
Begin forwarded message:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Iliya Bazlyancov <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:02 PM
> Subject: Issue with the Regional ICANN meeting in Sofia
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Association UNINET
> REF. ID. 10/2008
>
> Dear Dr. Twomey and Mr. Thrush,
>
> We are a Bulgarian association representing part of the local Internet
> user and business community, aimed at the introduction of Bulgarian
> IDN domains.
>
> We would like to inform you that we have been denied participation in
> the upcoming regional ccTLD meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. (8 – 10
> September) (please see attached letter). The Russian organizers of the
> meeting held in Bulgaria explained to us that the reason is that our
> organization is neither a ccTLD registry nor a registrar.
>
> We would like to express our astonishment with this case, because we
> thought that all ICANN meetings are always open – we have
> participated
> in former ICANN meetings, like in Los Angeles, without any problems
> and we will participate in Cairo again. We have understood that ICANN
> meetings and ICANN-supported meetings are open to all. We are aware at
> a similar regional meeting in the Middle East co-organized by ICANN
> together with a local ccTLD anyone was allowed to participate.
>
> Additionally, we are aware from the speaker and invitee lists of the
> event, a number of entities that do not qualify as neither a ccTLD
> registry or a registrar (for example Verisign, Affilias, ComTel,
> ENISA, etc.) are able to participate.
>
> We would like to ask you whether is an ICANN policy to organize also
> non-open meetings and deny participation of the local Internet
> community, considering that the meeting is held in Bulgaria. We
> believed that the ICANN meetings are supposed to be for the whole
> Internet community.
>
> If we are unable to get a response in a timely manner, because the
> meeting is next week, we will have little choice but to bring this up
> with the ICANN ombudsman and the wider ICANN community.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Iliya Bazlyankov
> Board chairman
> Association UNINET
>
> [log in to unmask]
> https://www.uninet.bg
>
> Phone: +359 2 942 98 00
> Mobile: +359 89 999 16 90
> Fax: +359 2 943 38 02
IP JUSTICE
Robin Gross, Executive Director
1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451
w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]
Delivered-To: [log in to unmask]
Received: by 10.142.185.17 with SMTP id i17cs54263wff;
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:33:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.181.5.1 with SMTP id h1mr1391825bki.7.1217248425661;
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from cctld.ru (mail.cctld.ru [89.253.243.110])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e17si2698082fke.10.2008.07.28.05.33.43;
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of [log in to unmask] designates 89.253.243.110 as permitted sender) client-ip=89.253.243.110;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of [log in to unmask] designates 89.253.243.110 as permitted sender) [log in to unmask]
Received: from [83.222.222.70] (account olga HELO wsmaria)
by cctld.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.3)
with ESMTPA id 210255; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:33:42 +0400
Message-ID: <01aa01c8f0ae$30de4d30$650aa8c0@wsmaria>
From: "Olga Ermakova" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "OrgCom" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: International conference in Sofia, Bulgaria
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:33:34 +0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_019E_01C8F0CF.ADF99290"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_019E_01C8F0CF.ADF99290
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="koi8-r"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Iliya,
We would like to notice that the International conference=20
(http://sofia2008.cctld.ru) is organized for ccTLD registries and=20
registrars of CIS region, Central and Eastern Europe.
As we understand, your organization is not a ccTLD regisrty nor=20
registrar. Unfortunately, in that case we _cannot confirm_ your=20
registration to the conference and include you in the list of =
participants.
Thank you for understanding.
Best regards,
Olga Ermakova=20
Coordination Center for TLD RU
http://www.cctld.ru
------=_NextPart_000_019E_01C8F0CF.ADF99290
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="koi8-r"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dkoi8-r">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dear Iliya,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>We would like to notice that the =
International=20
conference <BR>(</FONT><A href=3D"http://sofia2008.cctld.ru"><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
size=3D2>http://sofia2008.cctld.ru</FONT></A><FONT face=3DArial =
size=3D2>) is=20
organized for ccTLD registries and <BR>registrars of CIS region, Central =
and=20
Eastern Europe.<BR><BR>As we understand, your organization is not a =
ccTLD=20
regisrty nor <BR>registrar. Unfortunately, in that case we _cannot =
confirm_ your=20
<BR>registration to the conference and include you in the list of=20
participants.<BR><BR>Thank you for =
understanding.<BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT=20
face=3DArial size=3D2>Best regards,<BR><BR>Olga Ermakova</FONT>=20
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Coordination Center for TLD =
RU<BR></FONT><A=20
href=3D"http://www.cctld.ru"><FONT face=3DArial=20
size=3D2>http://www.cctld.ru</FONT></A><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
------=_NextPart_000_019E_01C8F0CF.ADF99290--
|
