example, considering that arin is managing a public resource for the community, why are bot meetings not streamed a la cspan?
Having watched Congress on CSPAN, and heard reports about open ICANN Board meetings, it looks to me like making deliberative meetings public means nothing substantive happens during meetings. People get afraid to say anything that might make them look ignorant, and just make prepared speeches. All decisions are made ahead of time through private negotiations, which ends up being the opposite of transparency. I think ARIN's Board's output is better than Congress.
i do not see how you are going to get rid of the liability.
Looking at the ARIN Board minutes of https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot/bot2010_1006.html and https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot/bot2010_1122.html it looks like the Board is requesting a more detailed liability assessment. Well-informed decisions are more likely to be good than the other kind. Lee