<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dear Farzaneh</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Dear Sébastien</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Dear All</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Even though I have not followed the works of the group but I am very much concerned our inability to maintain or to ensure the independence of the Ombudsman. I therefore fully and whole heartedly support view points of Farzaneh</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I do not think we should jump into final conclusion send a report which is not yet condensed </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Please seriously take into account get valid points</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Kavouss</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 19 Sep 2017, at 19:53, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thank you Seb.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I had a cursory review and I don't see what I have recommended is implemented or been considered. I could not properly attend all the the Ombuds group meetings but I don't think that means my comments should not be considered. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have to raise my concerns which I have reiterated over and over in that group and seems like not many people agree with me, so I might have to file a dissent but I'd like to raise my concerns here as well:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1. I don't think we can solve the problem of independence by giving the ombudspersons a 5 year contract. I have provided my reasons before. If by 5 years fixed contract you mean the Ombuds office as an entity should be given a fixed term contract that is fine. But ombudspersons getting fixed five-year contract won't solve the problem. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2. Ombuds has to be an office and not a person. At the moment it's a person. I think to maintain the independence of the office, we need to have preferably an external organization that provides ombuds services and its revenue is not only dependent on ICANN. That way we can ensure independence. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">3. Under no circumstances, the ombudspersons should socialize and befriend community members ( this is a very obvious independence element, have you ever encountered the decision maker of your case at a social event talking and smiling at the party you filed a complaint against? It is written in first year legal text books that independence is very much affected by social encounters and interactions)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I don't think the current recommendations are sufficient enough to expand the ombuds office mandate. But I do need written reasons for not considering the points I have made. It is simply not enough that the WS2 group on Ombuds did not agree with my comments.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please let me know what the process would be to file a dissent or if we can discuss it during the plenary.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Farzaneh</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Sebicann Bachollet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebicann@bachollet.fr" target="_blank">sebicann@bachollet.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">19th
September 2017,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Dear
Co-Chairs,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">The
WS2 Sub-Group on ICANN Ombuds Office (IOO) is very pleased to present
to the plenary of the CCWG on ICANN Accountability WS2 our Report titled ‘CCWG-Accountability-<wbr>WS2-Ombudsman-<wbr>DrafRecommendationsV2.2’
for first reading, discussion, review, comments and consideration. It was finalized,
on Monday 18<sup>th</sup> of September 2017 at the 30<sup>th</sup> meeting of
the IOO Sub-Group.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">As IOO Sub
Group Rapporteur I will be pleased to answer any questions and discuss any
comments from our CCWG.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">I would like
to take this opportunity to thanks the participants of our IOO Sub-group and
Bernard for his support to finalize the attached documents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">All the best</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">IOO Sub
Group Rapporteur,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Sebastien
Bachollet</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Attached:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">IOO first Report<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">External evaluator’s final report<u></u><u></u></span></li>
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