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: