Dear Robin, Exactly, there are some on the council that do consider that too steep a price. I think calling it all of ICANN might be a bit strong. a. On 5 Aug 2010, at 14:00, Robin Gross wrote: > I sincerely hope ICANN is not considering $60 to be too costly to provide a live audio feed of the policy council meetings to the community. That must be some kind of joke, right? $60 for this level of transparency is nothing. The private consultants ICANN hires to write press releases trumpeting the organization's "transparency" are paid more than $60 per word. > > Seriously though, who do I need to convince that the $60 expense is worth it to the community? > > Thanks, > Robin > > > On Aug 5, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Ron Wickersham wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Jorge Amodio wrote: >> >>> Seems that we were not able to collect the $60, the audio stream is >>> not working yet :-( >>> >>> J >> >> also not able to get stream. i get 35 bytes download from the remote >> system then nothing. on MicroSoft system reports unable to connect, >> Unix reports file type not mp3. Android says "unable to play this type >> of audio file" >> >> -ron > > > > > IP JUSTICE > Robin Gross, Executive Director > 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA > p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 > w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask] > > >