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]> 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