There are always improvements of course, but I can’t see how you can say it’s getting worse. What in particular makes you think it has?

Kieren

Yes you did help out during the meeting, thank you.

When you are thousands of miles away and no way to contact people at the meeting things need to be very simple. Links disappearing after meetings and not being logged in combined with some meetings not having links makes it very difficult to know when a resource should be there and when there isn’t a resource for a particular session.

The other big problem for remote participation is Time Zones.

Sometimes meetings occur in the middle of the night and/or very early hours of the morning. It would be a really great and a huge improvement if you could replace the live audio feeds with archive the audio feeds straight after the session has completed. (Even better still would be have archived video feeds!

If it’s a bandwidth problem perhaps somebody upload the feeds to YouTube or similar and link to them there. (The text scribes are great for reference but as unformatted text they tend to take concentration away from the matters being discussed.)

I recall replying to you directly while the meeting was going on, but just to provide a response on the blog…

The chatroom for every session is on that meeting’s dedicated page, accessible from the schedule. So, for example Thursday public forum page is here: http://cai.icann.org/en/node/1636

Now, the part that people have complained about it that they couldn’t see the chatroom – and that was because there were not signed in.

Why do they need to be signed in? Because we originally ran chatrooms open to all visitors and that caused a massive load on the system which slowed the chatrooms down.

What we haven’t done well is made it clear to people visiting a page that they need to log in to see the chatroom, so we will solve that in time for the next meeting.

I hope this answers your question.

Kieren

Where is the chatroom for the Public Forum or have you decided that remote participants don’t matter?

Why can’t you just provide an easy to find link on each meeting page? This is just nonsense

Kieren