<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sylvia:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1000 ....actually more. At the Vancouver ICANN meeting the Greek diplomat mentioned a number of 3000!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let's make a quick calculation:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1. Member States of the UN - 191 <<A href="http://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html">http://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>let's say each country sends, on average, 2 officials - total : 382</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2. International organizations & bodies </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let's say 20 organizations show up, and again, 2 officials from each - total: 40</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3. Business Sector</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let's say 20 companies and/or business lobby representatives show up, and again, 2 officials from each - total: 40</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>4. NGOS</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let's say 40 people show up - total 40</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just this quick calculation yields - 500.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Add greek & EU officials and easily the number scales to 1000 </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So i'd say 1000 is perhaps too conservative a number. Number will likely be min 1000, perhaps even upto 2000.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Doesn't make it easy to discuss things with so many people around... that's for sure.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Robert</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Robert Guerra <<A href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org">rguerra@privaterra.org</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Managing Director, Privaterra </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Tel +1 416 893 0377 Fax +1 416 893 0374</DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 25-Jan-06, at 11:50 AM, Sylvia Caras wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I was surprised to see on the Greece web page that they are expecting only 1000 at the meeting this fall.<BR><BR>I had expected many more than that, an unofficial continuance of WSIS, with much "off topic" activity. <BR><BR>What do others expect?<BR><BR>Sylvia<BR><BR>People Who<BR><A href="http://www.peoplewho.org">www.peoplewho.org</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>