[At-Large] [policy] Re: Documents and Draft Agenda for ALAC Monthly Teleconference, 8th April 2008

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Wendy:

Many thanks for your comments. We would of course be happy to create wiki pages of all of these texts if the community wishes us to do so.

However, with respect to emailing out texts either as attachments or in the body of emails, since those on low-bandwidth connections have made it clear that this is a real problem for them we have refrained from taking either of these steps. We are also aware that in some areas, community members must not only live with low-bandwidth connections, but must also pay for the bandwidth that they do use.

For these reasons, it is our hope is that those of you who are fortunate enough to have broadband connections would be able to live with visiting URLs to retrieve documents, instead of insisting on increasing the bandwidth required for all participants by including the texts in the body of emails, or as attachments. Of course, if the community wishes to decide to standardise on one kind of method of transmission over another, we would be happy to accommodate those wishes.

In deference to those on low-bandwidth connections we have truncated the message below - apologies in advance is this is disagreeable.

On 02/04/2008 16:23, "Wendy Seltzer" <wendy at seltzer.com> wrote:

At-Large Staff wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> As many of you may be aware, the Staff made a commitment to post all
> documents related to teleconferences not less than 7 days in advance of
> meetings (where this is possible), which is by way of assisting the Chair in
> conforming with Rule 13.2 of the ALAC Rules of Procedure, as well as for the
> advance preparation of Members for meetings.
>
> We are therefore pleased to provide details, including all documents
> presently available, for the upcoming April 8th teleconference of the
> At-Large Advisory Committee. These details may be reviewed at:
> https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?8_april_2008.

I appreciate document creation, but the dissemination and use for
communication leaves a lot to be desired.

Now it seems that we're using the worst of all technology worlds --
documents aren't being circulated, nor are they being posted in formats
that lend themselves to discussion by editing.  Since I'd presume the
goal of posting documents is to encourage At-Large community discussion
and revision to make those documents conform to the wishes of the
at-large community, I strongly urge that they be circulated IN TEXT
and/or posted IN TEXT to the wiki as pages that the Committee and
community can edit and comment upon.

I've wikified the draft "Draft Statement on the FY 2008/2009 Budget and
Operating Plan Framework" here, and edited it.  I hope others will use
<https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?draft_statement_on_the_fy_2008_2009_budget_and_operating_plan_framework>

to update or comment on these edits.    I include the full text of that
page below.  The original is there as "Revision 2," and a comparison
showing my first round of suggested edits is
<https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?action=revision_compare_name=draft_statement_on_the_fy_2008_2009_budget_and_operating_plan_framework=source_revision_id=20080331192032_revision_id=20080331191405=Compare+Revisions <https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?action=revision_compare&page_name=draft_statement_on_the_fy_2008_2009_budget_and_operating_plan_framework&mode=source&new_revision_id=20080331192032&old_revision_id=20080331191405&Button=Compare+Revisions> >


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