Spring break in Mexico, anyone?
The ICANN board has selected its meeting locations for the group’s 2020 meeting slate.
The first stop will be the Cancun International Convention Center in Mexico for meeting #67 from March 7-12, 2020. You might notice that those dates coincide with some schools’ spring breaks. I predict a few snarky headlines about ICANN heading to Cancun for a Spring Break boondoggle.
The 2020 Community Forum, ICANN 68, will be held at at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia June 22-25, 2020. It is being hosted by Dr. Suhaidi Hassan of the Internet Society Malaysia Chapter.
ICANN 69 will be in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center October 17-22, 2020. It will be hosted by eco association, DENIC and the City of Hamburg at the Congress Center Hamburg.
This is why we pay fees so they can use our money to party and vacation and call it an icann meeting?
It costs more to run meetings in remote places where you have to bring anything with you to run in places where infrastructure and services are readily available, like in Cancun, Orlando or Las Vegas. But scheduling during Spring Break was not the best idea.