Preserving the Transparency of Council Meetings

[DeeDee Halleck]

so are they archived? at what url? does that "count"?


On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:30 AM, William Drake <
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Jul 31, 2010, at 7:14 AM, William Drake wrote:
>
> > Presumably NCSG will do a cll on 4 August, next Wednesday.  We will need
> to have a discussion there of the candidates for endorsement and get
> community input for the Policy Committee with an eye to the 20 August
> deadline for endorsements. So with apologies for the short time line, if in
> the next 4 days people could have a look at the candidates that would help.
>  We could also usefully have some discussion in advance here on the list, if
> the candidates would care to share their respective pitches on why they're
> the right people for the jobs etc.
>
> As you may recall, in Brussels the Council passed a NCSG motion requiring
> that all Council calls be audiocast  in real time on the web.  Useful in
> terms of general transparency and accountability, but also operationally for
> us, as NCSGers can Skype chat with their Councilors during the session to
> provide input on votes etc.
>
> Since passage of the motion there's been some post hoc push-back from the
> registrars about why do we need to do this, the $60 per session is too
> expensive (!) and not all that many people care to listen in anyway (not
> supported by the numbers thus far).  I guess this combines a) the usual
> contracted party claim that ICANN's paying for stuff with "their money"
> (rather than the money of registrants), and b) a desire by some councilors
> not to have their SG listening in as Council performs its alchemy.
>
> It would be good to be able to say the audiocasts are valued by the
> community as demonstrated by the numbers so please drop the post hoc attack.
>  To that end, it'd be helpful if people could log in to the audiocast.  I
> suppose if you're not particularly interested in what we happen to be
> discussing in a given session you could just turn off the volume and let it
> run in background while you're doing whatever else.  I'd be surprised if a
> vote to repeal the decision were to pass, but it'd be better to take this
> off the table before it attracts more adherents.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
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