ICANN

Despite a plan formalized during June's Paris meeting to reduce the number of ICANN meetings to 2 per year, the current format of 3 meetings per year doesn't look set to change for the near future.

But ICANN is trying to plan ahead as far as possible. As part of that, it has put out a request for candidates to host the next European meeting (scheduled for October 2009) and the following African meeting (February 2010).

Candidate venues will have to be to be easy to get to and provide accommodation catering for a wide variety of budgets to guarantee a large spread of participants, from international corporations to the single Internet user.

If you're interested, you can download the relevant documents here.

And you can also read Michele's take on this here.