<div dir="auto">Excellent resource, thank you for this Sam, appreciate it.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 20, 2017 08:33, "Sam Lanfranco" <<a href="mailto:sam@lanfranco.net">sam@lanfranco.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Rather than recount arguments about the various issues surrounding
an ombudspersons office, I will suggest a short and thoughtful read
by an experience ombudsperson who served at a University I once
taught at.<br>
It is a short and thoughtful reflection. See:<a href="http://www.agreeinc.com/ombudsman.html" target="_blank">
http://www.agreeinc.com/<wbr>ombudsman.html</a> The multistakeholder
constituency basis of ICANN suggests some interesting (but not too
challenging) variations on parts of what is discussed in the
article. <br>
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Sam Lanfranco<br>
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find it difficult to see how anyone could disagree with
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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