[governance] Re: important days and most important WCIT agenda itemd

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CAHyAo0FZEMXivx3Yntu2RxT7h2s5iXHboLsv3RnE4Ya8PQWr1Q at mail.gmail.com>, at 
03:16:45 on Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com> 
writes
>
>Dear Roland and Adam
>
>Thank you.  
>
>All I could find was this:
>
>Document info
>> Meeting: 
>> WCIT (3-14 Dec 12)
>> File name: 
>> S12-WCIT12-C-0001!!MSW-E
>>
>> Opening
>> Election of the Chairman and Vice-Chairmen
>> Other administrative issues including requests for participation 
>received from international organizations, observers, etc.
>> Discussion and decisions regarding the structure of the Conference
>> Introduction of the Report of the preparatory process
>> Examination of the outputs of the preparatory process
>> Examination of proposals from Member States
>> Discussion of the proposed revisions to the ITRs, as appropriate
>> Discussion of WATTC-88 Resolutions, Recommendations, and Opinion
>> Adoption of the Final Acts of the Conference, including revised ITRs 
>and Resolutions, Recommendations, and Opinions, as appropriate
>> Determine the date of coming into force of the Final Acts of the 
>Conference and, if necessary, on the provisional application of certain 
>part(s) of the Final Acts
>> Closure (including signing ceremony

That's the agenda, it just isn't a timetable.

I would expect the timetable to emerge (and evolve) as the meeting 
progresses.

For example, I'm fairly sure it was the "Structure of the conference" 
session that I last attended which decided how the various proposals 
would be bundled together, which were then discussed in parallel 
sessions (tracks) containing broadly similar proposals. Each track then 
"merged" their proposals and brought the results back to plenary for 
further discussion by all.

Until the number of tracks and the contents of each bundle is agreed 
(obviously the chair and secretariat will have a draft of that already, 
but the conference has to agree it) then you can't publish a timetable 
either for each track, or indeed for the regular report-backs on 
progress to plenary sessions throughout the week.

You need one report-back session per track, so you don't know their 
timetable until you know how many tracks; and some tracks will finish 
their work before others, spin off ad-hoc groups to tackle controversial 
topics in more detail, and so on.

It's much more like a CSTD meeting than an ICANN meeting.

The challenge for an individual at such a conference (and I'm assuming 
that WCIT will be this type of conference) is the sheer number of things 
happening simultaneously, at short notice, and often late into the 
night; which really needs a team to be able to follow properly.
-- 
Roland Perry

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