Re: [ga] remote participation

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

"Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Alexander Svensson wrote:
> 
> > However, the proposal that the in-person participants take
> > part in the meeting as remote participants seems to take
> > away all the advantages of physical meetings; why should
> > there be physical meetings after all? The local community
> 
> Good question.  Given that this is a global internet body, one might well
> ask.

Some discussions, though, work better face to face. Not necessarily at
ICANN meetings. I met e few of the players here at last year's CFP. No
doubt some ICANN-related discussions go on at IETF meetings, the "bakeoffs"
various vendors of net products hold to test their implementations,
academic or commercial meetings, ...

I don't think we should block any such discussions, or cripple them by
making them work exactly like online discussions.

> > may be one aspect (which I obviously cannot judge), but
> > I take it that face-to-face communication generally still
> > gets more work done.
> >
> 
> It may make sense for the BOARD to be f2f, but that doesn't mean that rich
> supplicants should have an edge over less wealthy ones.

I think we ensure that by making it clear that decisions are made on the
list. An ICANN-sponsored face=to-face session has no more authority than
a meeting of a group of our players at an IETF meeting or CFP or .. would.

The list provides the agenda for face-to-face sessions, receives the
feedback and makes the decisions.
 
> > The real problem is the GA list and its bad signal-noise
> > ratio.  If the online GA can do everything the in-person

Yes, that's a problem.
 
> I respectfully disagree.  An even larger problem is that repeat f2f
> players -- those who are paid to attend sessions as lobbyists, primarily
> -- have a huge edge.

Methinks that edge disappears with my proposal. Good riddance.
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