SIG members, As you know, we had two community discussions, one about APNIC Survey result in APNIC 38 and another about consensus definitions. (If you are not familiar with APNIC Survey result, please refer https://conference.apnic.net/38#apnicsurveyresult)
Through these discussions, we identified following possible barriers to further participation in APNIC Policy discussion. 1. English may be a barrier for non-native english speakers 2. Particularly Non-members are not participating Regarding the language barrier, the floor’s comments are; - Simultaneous and/or document translation by professional interpreters/translators may not help (while they are quite expensive) since the context may lost - Active participants could translate and promote proposals within their domestic communities - Need to consider other solutions also If you could discuss this point in your local communities, in particular in non-english communities, and give feedback to the list, it is very helpful to consider further solutions Regarding non-members’ participation, participants thought; - We need to better understand why. Have more research? - Promoting PDP is a possible solution Another community discussion about consensus definitions also showed that we may need to promote our PDP more instead of improving the documents. Two possible solutions to promote PDP were raised in the session, which are; - Producing a introductory video about PDP - Make more use of the flowchart (http://www.apnic.net/community/policy/process) But these are views mainly from current active participants, so I would like to ask more comments/thoughts on this list. Also, it is very appreciated if you could ask it to your local community including non-APNIC members and provide feedback to the list as well. Lastly, if you have any other barriers/issues to participate APNIC Policy SIG, please feel free to share it to Policy SIG mailing list <[email protected]> (Am I ask it to other lists also?) Regards, Masato Yamanishi, Acting Chair, APNIC Policy SIG
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