Dear Community Members,
Happy New Year to all of you.
We would like to draw your attention once again that we are looking for
suggestions to improve CONFER Tools or to find a better way to ensure
remote participation in the consensus making process.
Thanks to Lu Heng for your comments.
Sincerely,
Sumon, Bertrand, Ching-Heng
APNIC Policy SIG Chairs
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From: Sumon Ahmed Sabir sasabir@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 7:21 PM
Subject: Use of Confer in APNIC Policy SIG Meeting
To: sig-policy@apnic.net
Dear Community Members,
We have been using CONFER (https://confer.apnic.net/) in the Policy SIG
sessions to gauge consensus primarily from remote participants but also onsite.
From our perspective it is a helpful tool to gauge the “temperature” of
the participants in the room as well as those who have joined remotely, if
it’s being used rationally. This tool allows participation in the PDP by
those who cannot afford or have time to attend the meeting physically.
In the past and at the most recent meeting, we received some concerns from
few community members about using CONFER as a tool for gauging consensus
and we would like to explore this further.
As part of the PDP it is always preferred to encourage bottom-up participation
from all. At this moment, we don't have another option in place to get
opinions from remote participants other than the CONFER tool.
We are seeking comments from the community to improve the CONFER tool or
suggestions of any other similar tools or other means of gauging consensus
from remote participants.
Your constructive feedback will really help us to improve the bottom-up policy
development process.
Sincerely,
Sumon, Bertrand, Ching-Heng
APNIC Policy SIG Chairs
