Off again

Might not be much blogging for a couple of days as I fly out at 7.00 am to Vancouver via Auckland and Tokyo. I’ll be out of NZ for 13 days.

I’m in Vancouver for one of the thrice-per-year meetings of ICANN. It will be a fascinating meeting, being the first one since the attempt to transfer some of its functions to a UN type body was defeated.

Apart from the normal business of discussing policies and operations, the NZ contingent will also be promoting the next meeting of ICANN which is in March 2006, as it is in Wellington. It’s a pretty huge task hosting a meeting of up to 1,000 people over a week, especially as within that week there are in fact 20+ seperate sub-meetings.