SIG members,
As you know, we had two community discussions, one about APNIC Survey result
in APNIC 38 and another about consensus definitions.
(If you are not familiar with APNIC Survey result, please refer
https://conference.apnic.net/38#apnicsurveyresult)
Through these discussions, we identified following possible barriers to
further participation in APNIC Policy discussion.
1. English may be a barrier for non-native english speakers
2. Particularly Non-members are not participating
Regarding the language barrier, the floor’s comments are;
- Simultaneous and/or document translation by professional
interpreters/translators may not help (while they are quite expensive) since
the context may lost
- Active participants could translate and promote proposals within their
domestic communities
- Need to consider other solutions also
If you could discuss this point in your local communities, in particular in
non-english communities,
and give feedback to the list, it is very helpful to consider further
solutions
Regarding non-members’ participation, participants thought;
- We need to better understand why. Have more research?
- Promoting PDP is a possible solution
Another community discussion about consensus definitions also showed that we
may need to promote our PDP more instead of improving the documents.
Two possible solutions to promote PDP were raised in the session, which are;
- Producing a introductory video about PDP
- Make more use of the flowchart
(http://www.apnic.net/community/policy/process)
But these are views mainly from current active participants, so I would like
to ask more comments/thoughts on this list.
Also, it is very appreciated if you could ask it to your local community
including non-APNIC members and provide feedback to the list as well.
Lastly, if you have any other barriers/issues to participate APNIC Policy
SIG, please feel free to share it to Policy SIG mailing list
sig-policy@lists.apnic.net
(Am I ask it to other lists also?)
Regards,
Masato Yamanishi, Acting Chair, APNIC Policy SIG
