Roberto and all,
Ben's response to Joop not withstanding It is plainly evident, as has
been the norm that seamless provisioning for remote participation
is not very high on The ICANN (initial?) Interim Boards list of priorities,
much along the same lines as Esther Dysons errant comment
regarding lack of interest in Process reported by Jeri Clausing NYT,
Wired, and CNET, and recorded in relevant archives, as is appropriate.
In addition it doesn't seem to be the Norm for the prestigious Berkman
Center to do proper and reasonable planning and testing for remote
participation. Is this a potential conspiracy. Probably not. As such
one could only logically conclude that both the ICANN (Initial?) Interim
Board and the prestigious Berkman Center, are at a somewhat low
level of competence to provision for remote Internet participation, as
this has been the third time such occurrences of poor reliability
in this provisioning have been noted...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Thank you for the comprehensive report of the difficulties you have.
> I believe that you are doing a wonderful job, and I have the feeling of not
> being alone in thinking this way.
>
> I also believe that you overreacted to Joop's message, but I can try to
> explain how this could have happened (off my memory - so please excuse some
> potential inaccuracies).
>
> Joop sent a long report on the Santiago meeting to ther IDNO. This report
> was starting with the description of the reasons for Joop to be late at the
> meeting, and having missed the first twenty minutes of it. Incidentally,
> this had nothing to do with the board, or with you, but just with a cab
> driver and the equation "foreigner=easy_money".
>
> In the following message to IFWP, Joop snipped his colorful description of
> the incident, leaving only the following text:
>
> > > <snip>
> > > We were not the only ones to miss it. The audio/video
> > server happened to
> > be
> > > down too, for 20 minutes.
>
> leaving the impression to you that the <snip> was referred to some comment
> related to the Board or Berkman Center behaviour.
>
> I strongly believe that Joop does not think that there has been a
> conspiracy, or at least he does not think you being part of it. The positive
> side is that we all could know what difficulties you have in providing a
> valuable link between the physical meeting and the online meeting.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
> P.S.: on second thought, maybe there was a conspiracy, and the taxi driver
> in Santiago was in reality an undercover CORE/POC/ISOC agent, and the error
> rate on the link to the Internet cloud was provoked artificially, and ...
> ;>)
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