RE: [wg-review] 4. [GA] Draft Text Clarification

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

We're waiting for Ben to come back to us on the feasibility of improving
online participation by adding one, or possibly two large projection screens
to the public auditorium for the purposes of:-

1. Projecting online comments made to the live chat forum in real time, with
an inbuilt 20 second delay.
2. Projecting comments and questions by selected remote participants using
live cameral feeds.

If, as I suspect, this is entirely possible, then this would meet objectives
in the following ways-

1) Increasing participation by outreach, whilst allowing Liaison to restrict
truly disruptive or abusive behaviour.
2) allowing key speakers who are unable to attend in person, for whatever
reason, to provide input on more or less a level playing field with those
speakers who are physically in the room.

In the meantime, so far as the GA Draft text is concerned, if all are
amenable, we could strengthen the wording for our report by following the
language in Kevin's proposal (I'll find it in a minute), which stipulates an
obligation to include remote participants. I imagine nobody could enforce
that obligation if it is not technically or economically possible for DNSO
to comply, but as the GA Draft stands,  what is written under clause (i) is
a "best endeavors" clause, which we might want to avoid, being a paper tiger
that could be viewed as encouraging complacency.

I am also taking this opportunity to apologize for the lack of recent
progress with InternetStakeholders.com. My time is too limited to do a
proper job without help.

Regards,
Joanna

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Burton [mailto:sidna@feedwriter.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:43 PM
To: jo-uk@rcn.com
Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [wg-review] 4. [GA] Draft Text Clarification


At 07:14 PM 2/11/01, Joanna Lane wrote:
>Why not add this to the report for clarification purposes, then there are
no
>mixed messages.

Good idea, Joanna, thanks. I'll add the comments after the bylaws changes,
and key them to the paragraphs. Are you satisfied with Ben's responses
regarding the online participation at physical meetings?

Regards,
Greg

sidna@feedwriter.com


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