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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Alejandro wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Maybe an ICANN-interest SIG of ISOC chapters would be the necessary organizational form we need to adopt. Please contact me offlist if there is any interest to follow up on such an idea. The name and focus does not have to be "ICANN" as we have more-general concerns included in all of the above.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ISOC made the decision a couple of years back to go to 'reception' style events rather than the formal agenda's meeting. Those used to consist of almost an hour of introductions round the table which left time for brief discussions of maybe two topics.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Probably around that same time frame (2009) I asked for an ICANN list to be added to the ISOC mailman, and it duly was. However it never took off, at all. It's possible that, between the ISOC Policy list, and many Chapters' involvement in their regional ALO's, there already exist sufficient groupings. Also, maybe ICANN is a general rather than a 'special' interest. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">I guess a SIG might help</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">but it's just more structure where plenty exists.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What is perhaps lacking is sufficient convening for inter-regional chapter discussions between ICANN Meetings, if not at the meetings themselves. In North America we have seen some progress with various Chapters hosting the ICANN 'readouts' that have replaced remote hubs. These can be successful at engaging local Chapter members in ICANN matters. However, because these are all-encompassing, and aimed at general engagement, no aspect is gone into at great depth. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> Maybe ISOC policy staff could be prevailed upon to co-ordinate more 'community forums' than the couple a year we currently have, with tighter focuses including single ICANN issues. But I know they do take some effort. .</span></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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