ICANN day4
Today was another long one - tomorrow will be too. Lots of concrete suggestions in the meeting about meetings this afternoon, including ideas about cross-group meetings, importance of speaking slowly (I'm an offender), importance of figuring out WHY we have these meetings. You might think it's all about policy development, and I often do, but there are other things going on here — outreach, networking, appearance-creation — that are also relevant.
A great question: what are newcomers supposed to do AFTER they've gone to the newcomers' roundtable discussion? It's a hard place to find a point of entry — the learning curve takes about a year. And if you're interested as a vendor of IDN-related software, there's no constituency for you…. The transcript for the meeting about meetings should be available soon, and I'll link to it.
This morning was the GNSO public forum (mostly about contractual conditions and about the LSE review); tomorrow morning is the Board's public forum (many many things on the agenda). Then the Board disappears for the afternoon and evening to deliberate. By Friday afternoon another ICANN meeting will have ended. Then I'll be able to get back to linking and blogging about things other than my schedule.
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