He's here to help. Dave writes: "I'd like to do an unconference for people who do conferences. The topic? How to improve conferences, to make them more valuable to the people who participate, to actually enable problem solving, moving the discussion from the hallways into the conference room."

ICANN needs this. We have the smartest audience in the world, and we need to find better ways to involve them in the discussion with the Board. I'm dreading the next few days when the formal ICANN meetings begin with the royal "reading of the reports." Reading to people who can read -- and have fifteen hour plan flights to reach the conference in which to do so -- is a waste of valuable time.

I lightly moderated an unconference in the ALAC on Sunday on new gTLDs. It was fantastic. Meeting notes are here. We need more of this. The ICANN meeting planners should attend Dave Winer's unconference on the unconference for people who hold conferences.