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• Lack of telephonic participation options for meetings that work reliably. After six meetings of technically hopeless telephonic participation facilities for At-Large’s meetings, in Cairo we didn’t even bother to try. http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2008q4/004925.html^{Image Removed}

• Receiving very large documents in English-only on the eve of a meeting’s start, and then expecting attendees to comment and participate in sessions related to these texts. The New GTLDs documents are just the latest example of this problem. This is a totally unreasonable burden on volunteers and reinforces an imbalance between those who make money from registration – who will read things no matter when they are released because their business depends on them – and everyone else. If substantive documents cannot be made available at least two weeks before a meeting – in multiple language versions – don’t bother arranging sessions to talk about them at the meeting and don’t start consultations on them until well after the meeting is over.

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