At ICANN
Bret Fausett has been collecting podcast material. Joi Ito has been busy blogging. Me? I've been in a very analog mode — taking notes with pen and paper, standing around in the hallways talking to people, and thinking about paths forward.
Jordyn Buchanan made a good point at the meeting between the Board and the registrar constituency this afternoon. Why don't we have a policy framework for registry agreements? Why can't the negotiators of those agreements have policy advice from the community in advance? Just a question.
Wendy Seltzer at today's ALAC meeting said that it's really difficult to persuade people to be interested in ALAC — here's the pitch —
If you form an organization, you can join ALAC. You can't join as an individual. And if your group joins ALAC, you can then work on forming a regional group-of-groups. And if you do that, your regional group can work on getting someone on the ICANN nominating committee.
That doesn't sound gripping, does it? There's got to be a way to facilitate individual participation in ICANN policy processes that will attract people.
So I'll go back to analog mode now, and hope that the bloggers here are capturing what's going on. The Public Forum will be webcast tomorrow, and will be worth watching. Go here to see the schedule.