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I would like to follow up on Stephanie's excellent contribution to
the context here. It is exciting and gratifying that interest in
this area is attracting people who already have experience and
expertise in the area. But, I too would share Stephanie's words of
caution. Just within the NCSG Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group,
there is NCUC as identified by Stephanie, and NPOC <a
href="http://www.npoc.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.npoc.org">http://www.npoc.org</a></a> with its focus
on the operational concerns of the Not-For-Profit constituency.
These are particular constituency concerns perspectives brought to
the work at hand. I came to ICANN in the Fall of 2013 with some
expertise as well. Part was decades of work in ICT for development
and part was familiarity with multistakeholder governance models.
Also, in all humility, given the internal processes and dynamics of
ICANN I was a complete novice, a newbie, fresh out of the backwaters
of multistakeholder policy making. The one thing I did have was
expertise, but that expertise only has relevance in context. <br>
<br>
These two points, the ICANN multistakeholder process, and
understanding the role of expertise as an input into the dialogue in
policy making, are crucial to leadership roles in any ICANN Working
Group. Put bluntly, very specific leadership skills are needed here,
at every level of leadership within the WG process. It is the
transparency of the process that makes sure that leadership remains
accountable. Our individual expertise is like the tools on a wall,
to be called on when relevant to the context and task at hand. As
for our self-designations as "Independent" (expert or not) one test
is is to ask if one were dealing with policy making at the
governmental level would one have to register as a lobbyist. In many
cases the answer is yes. Here, maybe one can just give a mini CV in
the Statement of Interest, and leave it at the level of
transparency. <br>
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Some of you may ask why I, or Stephanie, belabor these issues. The
short answer is that ICANN Working Groups depend on quite difficult
and demanding work, much of it in areas where there are no
historical policy guidelines and (for the lawyers among us: no case
law). We are on a frontier here and it us up to us to shape our
leadership so that we are building on firm ground, and not thrashing
around of flow ice. <br>
<br>
Sam Lanfranco, NPOC Policy Committee<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><small><i>On 27/01/2016 11:15 AM,
Stephanie Perrin wrote:</i><i><br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56A8ED19.2060703@mail.utoronto.ca" type="cite"><small><i>
</i><i> AS someone who is a relative newcomer to ICANN (February
2013) who has participated in quite a few working groups and
the EWG, I would like to add that it takes quite a while to
understand the community, the processes, and the history at
ICANN. I arrived as an "independent expert" with quite a bit
of experience in chairing various multi-stakeholder
activities, but I would in all humility suggest that chairing
or co-chairing an initiative such as this requires a set of
skills best gained through experience with ICANN and its
processes. Yes we need particular expertise, and that is why
the call for participation has been so broad.</i><i><br>
</i><i> When I use the word independent, I mean that I have no
client that is paying me to participate, nor an employer that
has an interest in my participation. I think it might be
useful in this regard if persons who use that word explain
what they mean by it, because it is not clear to me that we
have a common understanding of our usage of the term. I also
note that some individuals have identified as non-commercial
in their SOIs, and may not be aware that we have a group
called the NCUC (Non-commercial users constituency) and if
they are not members, they might want to use another term.
Please refer to our website </i><i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a></i><i>.
We also have a stakeholder group called the NCSG, or
non-commercial stakeholder group, same applies. </i><i><br>
</i><i> Kind regards</i><i><br>
</i><i> Stephanie Perrin</i></small>
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