Ben and all,
I had to comment on this.. (See more below)
Ben Edelman wrote:
> Joop wrote:
>
> (presumably referring to a portion of the 8/26 Board Meeting?)
> > <snip>
> > We were not the only ones to miss it. The audio/video server happened to
> be
> > down too, for 20 minutes.
> > So the only record we have are the scribe notes at
> > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/icann/santiago/archive/
> >
> > Unfortunately, it turned out to have been the most interesting part of the
> > meeting, where Esther apparently asked the Board searing questions as to
> > why they didn't want to heed the GA's resolution to let the IDNO in, or at
> > least discuss openly why not, and have it please on the agenda right now ,
> > here in Santiago.
> > These questions apparently were not answered.
>
> Joop,
>
> I don't know if you intend to suggest that the failure of certain live feeds
> was a part of some conspiracy of which I was presumably a part, but that's
> the only inference I can draw from reading what you wrote above.
I don't see the word conspiracy mentioned or even eluded too. But
even a casual observer can't reasonably escape the fact that the
Berkman Center did very little or poor planning for remote participation,
just as it did in Berlin and Singapore. Little or not improvement was
noticeable. That should not be the case.
> That's a
> pretty serious allegation -- one that, if true, would certainly reflect very
> poorly on the ICANN board, not to mention on the Berkman Center. So, I feel
> it appropriate to respond briefly, to at least give the list my perspective
> on what happened.
It should reflect poorly. I watched and participated on the Chat session
at #ICANN-Santiago, it was poor, and the video was worse, audio was
mediocre at best...
>
>
> First of all, you should realize that remote participation depends almost
> completely on a reliable TCP/IP link from the meeting room to the Internet
> cloud.
Correct. Did you provide for a mbone or even try to do so?
Did the Berkman Center send down an advance team to check
all of this out long before the conference? If not, why not? And
please don't tell us all that is was due to lack of funding, because
that is pure bunk.
Snip the rest of this excuesive diatribe...
>
>
> Ben Edelman
> Berkman Center for Internet and Society
> Harvard Law School
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