Re: [ga] RE: Selecting Comments to Read Aloud

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joanna and all remaining assembly members,

 Your conclusion here, although strong, is appropriate, we believe.
It has been a raging practice of the Berkman center to appear
conciliatory in the past ICANN "Events", with respect to remote
participation.  However the truth is that the remote participation
provided has been poor at best, and at times nonexistent as the archives
of this another forums will clearly indicate.

Joanna Lane wrote:

> Ben Edelman wrote:-
> <snip>
> You may have misunderstood.  My last message was not about participation
> generally; it was about selecting comments to be read out loud.
> <snip>
>
> I may have extrapolated your statement to apply to participation generally,
> but it would still be true to say that the underlying message the Berkman
> Centre is sending to this list in all its posts is how to justify dismissal
> of the fundamental principle that remote participants and attendees should
> have equal rights to participate in all procedures of the public meeting.
> This is wholly unacceptable.
>
> To any reasonable person, it is blindingly obvious that the current system
> does not facilitate the best possible online participation using available
> technology and that the Berkman Centre is not working toward that end,
> having rejected numerous sponsorship offers to assist with implementing new
> technology that could resolve some, if not all of these issues. There have
> been only negative responses, or none at all, to practical suggestions that
> have been put forward, such as Sotiris's proposal to consider Firetalk to
> overcome the Real Player lag, and Kendall's proposal to incorporate voting
> on selected comments to overcome duplicated questions, not to mention my
> own; all these recommendations would appear blocked for an overriding
> consideration to maintain use of the current system which incorporates your
> code.
>
> Obviously, you have made enormous personal contributions in the past, which
> I do not seek to diminish in any way, but the time has to come to consider
> whether or not another approach would be more appropriate for the future
> needs of the ICW. If you really cannot come up with practical ways in which
> to resolve some of these problems, or support others who do, then either
> another body should be brought in to oversee remote participation, or there
> should not be any physical in-person meetings at all until these issues are
> resolved, or possibly both.
>
> Sincerely,
> Joanna lane
>
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