<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>It's not a policy on polite discourse if it is not enforced, especially when someone can be directly, publicly insulted without any fear of the Ombusdmans ability to enforce that policy. It is clear that after being publicly referred to impolitely and unfairly objectified as a "troll", an "it", "a silicone based lifeform", labeled as "hostile", and told to "give it a rest" simply for trying to participate and share new ideas, there is no actual ability for the Ombudsman to enforce the policy being referred to. <br /><br />The very fact that the Ombusdman already sent a note previously asking members of this list to follow the policy on polite discourse, prior to my being assigned as a participant to CCWG-Accountability, shows me that there has long needed to be some sort of special review of the comments made by members of this mailing list to see if there is a atmosphere of
disrespect that for some reason has evolved over a lengthy period of time. After such a review of the distractions, the real work of completing the ICANN transition process will be more successful in my opinion. Can the Ombudsman comment on this proposal and/or perform such a review?<br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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[CCWG-ACCT] Meeting location <br>
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<td valign="top"><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear all, </div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">For those who are attending in person, the CCWG meeting will take place in <b>Liffey Hall on the 1st floor </b>on the convention center. I sent information about the shuttles to/from the hotel in a<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-October/006773.html"> prior email</a>. </div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">For those attending remotely, please join us via the virtual meeting room at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/dub54-liffeyhall2">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/dub54-liffeyhall2</a>/ </div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div>As a reminder, all ICANN meetings (including the chat rooms and mailing lists) follow ICANN’s Expected Standards of Behavior. For reference these are located here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/expected-standards-2012-05-15-en" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/expected-standards-2012-05-15-en</a>. In the words of the ICANN Ombudsman from a note he sent to this list on 22 June: "<span style="line-height:16px;">May I implore participants to continue to note the ICANN policy on polite discourse. It is important to have a strong and vigorous debate but we don't need to make personal attacks on each other. A polite note of disagreement should be
sufficient, and has been frequently used. But if we start to attack individuals on list, this will distract us from the real tasks.” </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Looking forward to seeing you in 8 hours, </div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Grace</div></td>
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