>Still looking for a reasonably priced hotel, but I should be there anyway. sorry, probably too late to be useful, but try the Ibis chain <http://www.ibishotel.com/> Montparnasse is on metro lines 4, 6, 12, 13. Adam >--c.a. > >Milton L Mueller wrote: >>Hello, all >>The Paris ICANN meeting is only about a month a way. I'd like to >>initiate some planning now. >>First, I believe (not fully confirmed yet, but likely) that the Internet >>Governance Project and Cotelco will be making a special effort to >>facilitate remote participation in the NCUC constituency meeting Tuesday >>June 24. We'll be doing this through Dr. Cogburn's E-lluminate platform, >>which still seems to be the easiest alternative. So if you can't come >>but want to stay active in the constituency, please mark your calendars >>for June and see if it is possible to sit at your computer during part >>of the f2f meeting. >>Second, we need to set an agenda. A big part of the agenda will be >>the GNSO reform process. We will need >>to discuss it among ourselves, invite in some outside speakers, and will >>also be having a special meeting with ALAC about that at 5:00 pm. Some >>of this work will require some advance preparation, such as coming up >>with a draft charter for a new stakeholder group. We also need to >>consider the usual business issues: membership, the next >>elections, funds, etc >>Other items I can suggest are: The Whois "studies" process >>JPA issues >>IANA is offering to meet to discuss some DNSSEC-related change >>I think .org will want to meet with us again >> >>Please use this list to add any other agenda items you are concerned >>about! >> >>Third, we need to make decisions about financial support for travel. I >>am going to ask NCUC for US$750 towards hotel. I can get there on my own >>nickel but hotels there are expensive. Others on the Council will >>probably need more support, and we may want to consider other requests. >> >>Milton Mueller >>Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies >>XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology >>------------------------------ >>Internet Governance Project: >>http://internetgovernance.org