<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/peace-through-entrepreneurship/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 105, 217); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span><span></span>
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</a><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 3, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Marilyn Cade <<a href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com" class="">marilynscade@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">When we travel to a Spanish speaking, Chinese speaking, French speaking area for an ICANN meeting, we have often translated our fact sheets. :-) </div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 655.609375px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org" class="">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a> <<a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org" class="">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Marilyn Cade <<a href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com" class="">marilynscade@hotmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, February 3, 2017 8:34 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Steven Koltai; Steve DelBianco<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BC List<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [bc-gnso] FILED: BC reply comment on proposed charter amendments</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Sounds like an excellent idea to me, Steven. </div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 655.609375px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org" class="">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a> <<a href="mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org" class="">owner-bc-gnso@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Steven Koltai <<a href="mailto:steven@koltai.co" class="">steven@koltai.co</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, February 3, 2017 8:13 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Steve DelBianco<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BC List<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [bc-gnso] FILED: BC reply comment on proposed charter amendments</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="">As a new BC member whose business is focused on SME’s and tech startups in the developing world, I love this message! I wonder, should we file it in French as well as English? If so, I’m happy to take a crack at that. Thanks<br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><br class="">Steven Koltai<br class="">Managing Director, Koltai & Company, LLC & <br class="">Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution <br class=""><a href="mailto:steven@koltai.co" class="">steven@koltai.co</a><br class=""><a href="http://koltai.co" class="">http://koltai.co</a><br class="">@koltaico</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-koltai-09a78a1" class="">LinkedIn Profile</a><br class=""><br class="">Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development, Brookings Institution Press, 2016, INFO & ORDERING AT:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://peace-through-entrepreneurship.squarespace.com/" class="">Peace through Entrepreneurship</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/peace-through-entrepreneurship/" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 105, 217); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 105, 217); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span id="cid:F3FC94F0-B845-4C09-A296-62A3B98EEA2E"><Bookcover.jpg></span></span></span></span></a></div><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/peace-through-entrepreneurship/" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 3, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Steve DelBianco <<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org" class="">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thanks to work of our Outreach Committee (Andrew Mack, Jimson Olufuye, Marilyn Cade, and Lawrence OlaWale-Roberts), today we filed a reply on ICANN’s public comment period for our proposed charter.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">See<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-bc-charter-amend-06jan17/msg00003.html" class="">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and below.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">Business Constituency (BC) response to Afnic comment regarding proposed BC charter amendments</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Business Constituency (BC) prides itself on its continued commitment to </span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">increase diversity, especially geographic diversity.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">Among our general membership and within the BC leadership we have made </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">significant efforts to expand representation from regions around the world, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">including outreach to SMEs and businesses from regions historically </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">under-represented in ICANN. We have made much progress, and we embrace </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">outreach as an ongoing priority of our constituency.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">Within the BC, many regions and languages are represented. And many BC </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">businesses work around the world in multiple geographies and languages.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">In direct response to the comment from Afnic expressing concern about French </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">language representation in the BC, the BC counts among its members many </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">representatives from many language groups – including a number of French and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">French-speaking businesses, as well as associations with geographically and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">linguistically diverse memberships.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">Our goal is to represent businesses large and small, and reflect the depth and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">regional diversity of the global business community. The BC actively welcomes </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">Business representatives from all regions, and will continue to encourage BC </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">members from diverse regions and backgrounds to run for leadership positions.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">—</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">This comment was drafted by the Business Constituency Outreach Committee, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">including Andrew Mack (chair), Jimson Olufuye, Marilyn Cade, and Lawrence </font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">OlaWale-Roberts.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">This comment was approved in accord with the BC charter.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" class="">—</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>