Jean Armour Polly ha scritto:
To me, the idea of an Internet User's "Summit" is not really the right idea in these times. The reason is that there is room for only a few at a summit. The Internet allows every user a seat at the table--everyone is a publisher--everyone has a blog--everyone is a video producer-- so everyone must be a summit attendee-- and that is the energy we should think how to engage.
I think that Jean is right. I'm not saying that an At Large Summit is necessarily a bad idea, but we still need to provide a convincing reply to what it would contribute in practice to the advancement of user interests inside ICANN, and what would be its objectives and deliverables. Otherwise, I see it very hard to convince ICANN to put a significant amount of money (more or less corresponding to the ICANN fees paid by 500'000 to 1'000'000 registrants) on such a project. In comparison, with much less expense, there could be online instruments that can gather much more than 100 individuals - we never really gave a thought at that possibility. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------