[At-Large] IRT working group report

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello

Some of the measures that ICANN has implemented for gathering,
recording and including stakeholder inputs are impressive but
incomplete. In main ICANN sessions and in some constituency sessions
the views expressed by the participants including general public are
transcribed word for word. But this process is incomplete because of
budgetary constraints, because it is an expensive process. ICANN needs
to fill in the gaps, either by finding a supplementary technology to
record every word spoken in every open session in the main and
constituency rooms as also the committee rooms (for example record
audio input at the podium and at the floor and send it to an
accredited voice transcriber to convert into written record + record
every slide presentation and video)  Once these measures are taken to
ensure a COMPLETE record of inputs, it becomes easy to ensure that
diverse views are incorporated in summary reports.

IRTs and other teams that are responsible for summarizing inputs,
drawing inferences and making recommendations could present
constituency views under constituency subheadings. In this report the
only reference to ALAC / at-Large that find is this "Members of the
IRT will also be participating in a telephone briefing with ALAC on 4
June, 2009, as well as two other consultations ICANN is hosting on 13
July, 2009 in New York and on 15 July, 2009 in London"

The report could have included a section on at-large inputs. The
inputs could have been presented as an at-Large / alac summary, as
prepared by an ALAC rapporteur. While it is the job of the IRT to
decide what inputs it could consider, feature or adopt, any report
could feature a section to incorporate the inputs verbatim, for ready
reference of how the final recommendations have taken into
consideration or not, the various constituency views.  Same could be
done in the case of other policy / implementation teams to include
"constituency input summaries" that might or might not be adopted,
from every relevant constituency.


Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
> If it wasn't so serious, I'd call the document contents "laughable".
> Alas, considering this might actually affect ICANN a lot more than anything
> else it has ever done before, I'll call the document contents "naive". Why,
> oh why...
>
> O.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Vande Walle"
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> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>;
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> Subject: [At-Large] IRT working group report
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>
>> FYI. The  IRT working group has published its final report,  basically
>> ignoring all the concerns expressed by the At-Large community:
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>> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm
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>> Patrick
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