Hello Some of the measures that ICANN has implemented for gathering, recording and including stakeholder inputs are impressive but incomplete. In main ICANN sessions and in some constituency sessions the views expressed by the participants including general public are transcribed word for word. But this process is incomplete because of budgetary constraints, because it is an expensive process. ICANN needs to fill in the gaps, either by finding a supplementary technology to record every word spoken in every open session in the main and constituency rooms as also the committee rooms (for example record audio input at the podium and at the floor and send it to an accredited voice transcriber to convert into written record + record every slide presentation and video) Once these measures are taken to ensure a COMPLETE record of inputs, it becomes easy to ensure that diverse views are incorporated in summary reports. IRTs and other teams that are responsible for summarizing inputs, drawing inferences and making recommendations could present constituency views under constituency subheadings. In this report the only reference to ALAC / at-Large that find is this "Members of the IRT will also be participating in a telephone briefing with ALAC on 4 June, 2009, as well as two other consultations ICANN is hosting on 13 July, 2009 in New York and on 15 July, 2009 in London" The report could have included a section on at-large inputs. The inputs could have been presented as an at-Large / alac summary, as prepared by an ALAC rapporteur. While it is the job of the IRT to decide what inputs it could consider, feature or adopt, any report could feature a section to incorporate the inputs verbatim, for ready reference of how the final recommendations have taken into consideration or not, the various constituency views. Same could be done in the case of other policy / implementation teams to include "constituency input summaries" that might or might not be adopted, from every relevant constituency. Sivasubramanian Muthusamy http://turiya.wordpress.com Blog: http://isocmadras.blogspot.com facebook: http://is.gd/x8Sh LinkedIn: http://is.gd/x8U6 Twitter: http://is.gd/x8Vz Airtel: +91 99524 03099 On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> wrote:
If it wasn't so serious, I'd call the document contents "laughable". Alas, considering this might actually affect ICANN a lot more than anything else it has ever done before, I'll call the document contents "naive". Why, oh why...
O.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Vande Walle" <patrick@vande-walle.eu> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; <gtld-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 4:33 PM Subject: [At-Large] IRT working group report
FYI. The IRT working group has published its final report, basically ignoring all the concerns expressed by the At-Large community:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm
Patrick
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