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

["Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Roberto Gaetano wrote:-

<The ICANN Board will meet anyhow, with or without public forum.
Your suggestion to eliminate the physical meetings (with limited, but still
important possibility of remote participation) will only lead to the
situation in which ICANN will meet behind closed doors.>

- Let them. It would be seriously underestimating the intelligence of the
BoD to think they don't fully appreciate the ramifications of such a step.

<By the way, has any proposal of this kind be made for any other physical
meeting like public congressional hearings? Should they also be banned until
we don't find a way to ensure remote participation at the same level than
physical attendance?>

- What relevance do hearings held by democratically elected officials have
to do with ICANN in its present form?

<I think that Prof. Froomkin proposal has some merit, and that we should
think a way to improve remote participation, but that going to the extreme
of refusing the "good" until we don't have the "better" is suicide.>

I'm pleased to note that you support Prof. Froomkin's proposal that all
questions are submitted online, including those by attendees, as do I.
But I can't agree that to cancel physical in-person meetings unless remote
participation is resolved, would be suicide, which I submit you have
supported yourself by your own proposal to cancel one of the quarterly
meetings and replace it with online only participation.

It's not rocket science to see where all this is leading. There really is no
need to rush around the world anymore. It's not even the money. It's the
time. Why should anybody give up work and family for 3 days, when 3 hours
will do the job? Actually, I thought canceling all 4 meetings and replacing
them with remote participation was a more brilliant idea. Let the BoD meet
in-person, but why anybody else?

But that's just me.

Regards
Joanna

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