[governance] remote paticipation via standardized protocols (was Re: Open consultations)

[Norbert Bollow]

Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Technical folks here said that when the platform does not work, it is
> probably because you dont have flash or it is outdated.

While for security reasons I don't have flash on my main PC, I tried
this on a different machine which has flash installed, with the
version requirement satisfied.

> As for the e-mail, someone should be chacking it, this is basic!

Yes, absolutely. And e-mail is standardized (RFC 2821, RFC 2822).
I thought that this was a reasonable fall-back until it turned out
that they're apparantly not monitoring the email address that was
specifically announced for facilitation of remote participation at
this particular event.


Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
> In message <20110518121926.476A215C0DF at quill.bollow.ch>, at 14:19:26 on 
> Wed, 18 May 2011, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> writes
> >> Remote participation through the platform is working well though so
> >> you can follow the webcast and participate sending your comments.
> >
> >Just to clarify, it's working for some, but not for everyone: It
> >isn't working for me.
> >
> >There are standardized protocols for internet communication. Why
> >doesn't whoever is organizing these "Open Consultations" walk the
> >talk of internet governance and use one of them?
> 
> Adobe Connect is a pretty standard application to use for this kind of 
> thing.

If even for an internet governance event, even standardization
organizations like ITU use instead of standardized communication
protocols a proprietary software platform that just happens to
exclude some users for reasons which possibly cannot be reasonably
debugged for lack of an openly published protocol specification,
something is seriously wrong in the land of internet governance.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean with the word "standard" in
"pretty standard application". If you mean "widely used and generally
accepted", I'll take your statement as an indication that this
particular example of what I'd call the "problem of insufficient
application-layer standardization in internet-based communication" is
an important and significant one.

There's an internet governance problem here. Please let's address it.

Greetings,
Norbert
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