Meetings
The ICANN meetings are long. This one runs Sunday to Sunday, with sub-meetings booked back to back. It's as if all possible ICANN interactions take place face to face during these thrice-annual meetings. I'm wondering whether there's a way to lighten the load of these meetings for everyone concerned. It's expensive to attend (obviously) and time-consuming.
Is there a way to use the key goal of transparency to inform this — to have more happen online, in a visual way? Docket sheets, ways to track what's going on visually (think small policy-wagons going horizontally across a time line, with moments when comments are coming in demarcated with vertical lines and flags)? There should be a better way to get things done than to have all interactions be face to face. There's always a need to have part of communications as close to full-bandwidth (in person) as possible. But if that's making it difficult for people to participate, why focus so much energy on in-person only, to the exclusion of other lower-bandwidth ways to communicate?
Speaking of meetings, there are lots of meetings tomorrow, Tuesday, that potentially conflict. So I want to underline a couple that I'll do my level best to attend. I may not be able to stay for the entire time, but I'll be there at some point.
1. From 12:30 to 2:30pm tomorrow, in the Grand Ballroom A-C, there's a meeting about the VeriSign settlement.
2. From 2:30pm to 6:30pm tomorrow, in the Stanley Park Ballroom 3, there's a meeting about whois questions.
More later.
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Great idea; if you send me a mockup or notes, I'll post something to ICANN WIKI to see if we can get this going as a transparent community type effort. Looking forward to seeing you soon - Ray.
A week of meetings would drive most of us crazy. Glad you were willing to take on ICANN… can't think of anyone I'd rather see in the mix!