On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ben Edelman wrote:
> What we'll have in Santiago is a refined version of the comment-submission
> system we provided in Singapore and Berlin. As
> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/santiago> describes: "Online
> participants will be able to submit text comments in real-time. Questions
> and comments submitted over the Internet will be sent to technical staff
> present in the meeting room. Those real-time messages relevant to the topic
> currently being discussed will be processed by the moderator who will select
> certain messages for presentation to the assembled group for a response
> similar to that provided to a concern raised at a microphone in a Q&A
> session. All messages will be archived on this site."
And herein lies the rub, and the disparity between on-line participants
and those physically present.
Those physically present can stand in line for a mike and say whatever it
is they wish to say. Those not physically present are *filtered* through
the staff.
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Patrick Greenwell
"This is our time. It will not come again."
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