Stephanie,  et. al.,

Your comment "Aarrggh, how do we get this train to slow down?" is one 
dimension of the elephant in the room with regard to building a viable 
and sustainable multistakeholder process, both here and for the IANA 
transition. Open data, and transparency, do not promote either awareness 
or engagement if the flows are too big, or too fast. Information flows 
around the Internet Governance issues are more like an information 
tsunami, drowning many in their wake, except for those who are 
essentially concerned with one issue. Consider that the IGF in Bali 
produced over 250 hours of online video. How many have time to watch that.

As well, there are a number of areas here where the wording skates 
across thin ice making it difficult for the wider stakeholder community 
to grasp what is being proposed, and leaving the proposed ideas open to 
serious implementation difficulties.  If the end products here are done 
too quickly they will not have broad stakeholder cohort buy-in. They 
will have only well meaning but symbolic buy-in by the tiny sliver of 
the stakeholder community actually involved in the process.  That will 
not bode well for a viable and sustainable multistakeholder process in 
the long run.

Timing is important in good humor, and in good policy making.

Sam Lanfranco

On 2014-04-12, at 2:05 PM, Remmy Nweke wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     ICANN has put the draft 5 year strategic plan for comment. that is
>     quite important draft since it set the directions for ICANN . The
>     process regarding the strategy started since few months and that
>     is critical time to provide input at this stage.
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>     Rafik
>