ICANN meeting - IDN discussions behind closed doors

[Drewbert]

http://losangeles2007.icann.org/schedule

Saturday, 27 October, 2007 - 14:00 Saturday, 27 October, 2007 - 18:00 GAC Working Group on IDNs (CLOSED)

Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 00:00 Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 10:00 GAC Working Group 1: IDNs in gTLD Space (CLOSED)

Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 11:15 Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 13:00 GAC Working Group on IDNs (CLOSED)

Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 13:00 Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 14:00 ICANN Board / GAC Joint Working Group (CLOSED)

Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 14:00 Sunday, 28 October, 2007 - 15:45 GAC Working Group 2&4: Meeting w/ ccNSO Council (CLOSED)

Monday, 29 October, 2007 - 00:00 Monday, 29 October, 2007 - 17:00 ccTLD Technical Meeting

Anyone close by keen to crash the party?

[Asiaplay]

Umm - interesting.... I hope the views of idnforums members will therefore be represented via one of the forum members... will they be?

Cheers - Asiaplay

[zenmarketing]

I am in Silicon Valley and could conceivably make the drive down. Wasn't planning to, but I might go if someone else from IDNForums will be there -- if so, PM me.

[Fka200]

Hrm. This is on the weekend...

4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA

.... I may go.

[burnsinternet]

I wish I could go! I will be in Hawaii.

[Asiaplay]

Still trying to work out how to drive there from Hong Kong.... my GPS is telling me to head into the sea!!!

Basically means I will not be there... but is there not one of our members here not on committees for ICANN & IDNs?

Cheers - Asiaplay

[Rubber Duck]

This has been scheduled for a while. The final decision on what ccTLDs go immediately into the Root will be decided here. I don't think attending will enable you to gain access, but you may pick up on some of the buzz.

[Drewbert]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectid=10467934

"An idea that internetNZ will be pushing in Los Angeles is the internationalisation of domain names, an increasingly pressing issue now that more than half the internet's 1.2 billion users don't speak English as a first language. "You still basically need some English knowledge if you're to type in a URL in your browser ... and that's an unfair ask on 80-something per cent of the planet's population," Davidson says."

[Rubber Duck]

Chalk in October 20th as something of a Red Letter Day:

http://taipei2007.icann.org/schedule

[Drewbert]

So are one of you local guys going to drop by and try to discretely slip into one of these closed meetings so the world can learn what the hell they are being so secretive about?