On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:

> What are you suggesting? A separate "The Public Interest in ICANN" conference? Seems like an idea. The NCUC one day prior to ICANN 40 was certainly valuable.

If I thought people could really come prepared to have a collegial, probing, non-histrionic discussion of the relationship and possibilities for cooperating on matters of joint concern, yes, that'd be the sort of thing I'd be proposing.

Bill