<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Chuck:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Descriptives of 'volunteers' in the ICANN world are always situational. Checking the details of volunteers for the RDS PDP WG, you may see emerging a more nuanced explanation or narrative....giving further voice to Seun's worry.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Most of the member volunteers here are folks with day jobs in the domain name business. A cursory reading of the situation in the observer volunteer list seems less so. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">-Carlton </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><br>==============================<br>Carlton A Samuels<br>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><i><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i><br>=============================</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Gomes, Chuck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cgomes@verisign.com" target="_blank">cgomes@verisign.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Seun,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You accurately cite a problem that continues to exist in the ICANN world, one that we need to persist in solving. In the case of the GNSO, the GNSO Review
recommendations from Westlake, the independent consultant, made several recommendations along this line.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But I am not convinced that the number of the number of volunteers is decreasing. Take a look at the number of people who have volunteered for the Registration
Data Services PDP WG that is getting ready to start: <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56986659" target="_blank">
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56986659</a> There are presently over 100 member volunteers and over 70 observer volunteers and a lot of them are new. I know that many will not be active and some will drop out over time, but that
is an impressive start.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Chuck<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Seun Ojedeji<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 20, 2016 2:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> James Gannon<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a><span class=""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWG-Stewardship] CWG discussion<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p>+1 and really beyond the 2 processes what you have said is one other reason why some drastic approach needs to be taken towards getting the community more engaged thereby raising new generation of volunteers as the current pool of volunteers is obviously
not commensurate with the various tasks.<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
<p>If care is not taken (without being intentional), we will realise that number of community members is almost equivalent with that of the board which overall begs the question of diversity in community's view.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>This is sure not a CWG issue to address, but I thought it's worth noting that number of volunteers are reducing and should really be a thing of concern by chairs of different working groups and ICANN as a whole. Good that CWG has completed the major part
of his task but we all know the task will be as good as undone without a workable ccwg outcome.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Regards<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 20 Jan 2016 20:25, "James Gannon" <<a href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net" target="_blank">james@cyberinvasion.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For context some of this may be due to the incredible workload the CCWG is under at the moment and with the large amount of overlap people may have concentrated on that workload.<br>
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On 20/01/2016, 6:14 p.m., "<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of Paul M Kane - CWG" <<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of
<a href="mailto:paul.kane-cwg@icb.co.uk" target="_blank">paul.kane-cwg@icb.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>At our last call it was decided we would have on-line discussion in advance of<br>
>our next call ... this list has been silent.<br>
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>We have a call scheduled for tomorrow - what is the plan?<br>
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>Best<br>
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>Paul<br>
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