In response to my post yesterday, ICANN's Manager of Public Participation asks if I've gone mad. No, not all. The problem is that ICANN's postings from Dehli are coming too late to be meaningful to those half a world away. When I wrote yesterday's post, no transcripts from Monday's sessions had been posted. The Real Video and Audio files aren't archived, so if you don't catch a session live -- in the middle of my night, here in Los Angeles -- the files aren't available later.

Today, Tuesday, I can finally read the transcript for Monday's sessions. But the live Tuesday meeting is now complete (as I write this, it's 11:00 pm in Dehli), and none of Tuesday's transcripts are posted. And the Real feeds produce error messages.

So the message I take from this is that remote observers -- "participants" is too charitable a term -- always must work 36 hours behind the live meeting. For me, this is frustrating.

I'll admit that across the entire world probably fewer than a dozen people are interested in following ICANN's Dehli meeting closely, so the allocation of resources to prompt posting is understandably not high on anyone's priority list. Still, I can't help but wonder whether improved remote participation mechanisms would make interest in ICANN's work increase.