If there's one thing that ICANN can do to cut down on the length of its meetings, it's this: dispense with the "reading of reports." You can time-shift one-way communication by providing people a URL (or MP3 audio) for the presentation. We can receive the information on our own time. I suspect many of these written statements were prepared before the meetings began and easily could have been posted ahead of time. It's disappointing to fly around the world only to spend hours upon hours in meetings where people read their prepared, written reports. Use the time together at the meetings for two-way communication. We always seem to run out of time at the so-called "Public Forum" for input from the public.

Related Article: Karl Auerbach blogs the woefully short public comment period:  "Public Comments have finally begun - there's only 45 minutes for this, a very sad state of affairs. The line of people waiting to speak reaches way back...."