[NCUC-DISCUSS] Encouraging open solutions at ICANN?

[Glenn McKnight]

Hi Shane
ALAC has a working group called the  Technology Taskforce and we have been
showing TOR and LINUX(BSD) solutions and a group of Open Source advocates
provide their suggestions.

I would be happy to invite you to the TTF calls and discuss this issue in
more detail

Glenn


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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org>
wrote:

> Hello fellow NCUC members,
>
> tl;dr Does is make sense to encourage open solutions at ICANN? If so,
>       how?
>
> More words:
>
> I just missed the GNSO WG Newcomer Open House Session. I was curious to
> see how the process there works. ("Open House" means anyone can show
> up, right?)
>
> The reason I missed it is because ICANN uses Adobe Connect. This uses
> Adobe Flash, which I don't have installed on any of my computers. Flash
> is widely known for being suckful (consuming lots of CPU, which wastes
> electricity - especially bad on laptops which heat up and drain
> batteries, and also a constant source of security problems).
>
> Even if Flash was wonderful, it's still proprietary software built
> using a closed standard. It doesn't fill me with confidence when the
> first thing that you have to do to participate in ICANN discussions is
> to install a closed piece of software from a for-profit company.
>
> What would be the right way to agitate for more open solutions at
> ICANN?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Shane
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