One call in the middle of the holiday season for many people is not a good indication of general interest in tracking these calls. And as you suggest, $60 is a pretty trivial sum. If registrars want to be budget-conscious (and who can blame them for that) they could knock out a Whois study or two and fund the audiocasts for the decade or two. > -----Original Message----- > As you may recall, in Brussels the Council passed a NCSG motion > requiring that all Council calls be audiocast in real time on the web. > Useful in terms of general transparency and accountability, but also > operationally for us, as NCSGers can Skype chat with their Councilors > during the session to provide input on votes etc. > > Since passage of the motion there's been some post hoc push-back from > the registrars about why do we need to do this, the $60 per session is > too expensive (!) and not all that many people care to listen in anyway > (not supported by the numbers thus far). I guess this combines a) the > usual contracted party claim that ICANN's paying for stuff with "their > money" (rather than the money of registrants), and b) a desire by some > councilors not to have their SG listening in as Council performs its > alchemy. >