The ICANN meetings are long.  This one runs Sunday to Sunday, with sub-meetings booked back to back.  It's as if all possible ICANN interactions take place face to face during these thrice-annual meetings.  I'm wondering whether there's a way to lighten the load of these meetings for everyone concerned.  It's expensive to attend (obviously) and time-consuming. 

Is there a way to use the key goal of transparency to inform this -- to have more happen online, in a visual way?  Docket sheets, ways to track what's going on visually (think small policy-wagons going horizontally across a time line, with moments when comments are coming in demarcated with vertical lines and flags)?  There should be a better way to get things done than to have all interactions be face to face.  There's always a need to have part of communications as close to full-bandwidth (in person) as possible.  But if that's making it difficult for people to participate, why focus so much energy on in-person only, to the exclusion of other lower-bandwidth ways to communicate? 

Speaking of meetings, there are lots of meetings tomorrow, Tuesday, that potentially conflict.  So I want to underline a couple that I'll do my level best to attend.  I may not be able to stay for the entire time, but I'll be there at some point.

1.  From 12:30 to 2:30pm tomorrow, in the Grand Ballroom A-C, there's a meeting about the VeriSign settlement.

2.  From 2:30pm to 6:30pm tomorrow,  in the Stanley Park Ballroom 3, there's a meeting about whois questions.

More later.