<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi James<div><br></div><div>Just a question about your first sentence - probably caused by what I think is a misspelling of ‘linking’. Are you seriously objecting to leadership roles for people who are not members of the GNSO?</div><div><br></div><div>Just checking</div><div><br></div><div>Holly<br><div><div>On 4 Feb 2016, at 5:15 pm, James Gannon <<a href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net">james@cyberinvasion.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>I agree with your point in principle Sana, but in reality I think a couple of us are concerned that the poll is being used for some strange questions that are more political in nature such as the question on leadership inkling people from outside of the
GNSO. The results of this first poll will be used to determine eligibility for leadership positions based on a set of criteria that will be formed from the poll. </div>
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<div>Given the extremely complex political aspects of WHOIS and its interrelations with so many areas of the community it may be extremely difficult for a newcomer to the entire PDP process and in particular to WHOIS/RDS to make a fully educated decision on
some of the questions posed. So its not so much that experience and understanding of the landscape is necessary to be polled, but that to make a fully informed decision will take longer than the 2 weeks that the PDP has been running so far.</div>
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<div>Take for example the issues that some of us have noticed with peoples SOI’s, there are people wit incorrect information and affiliations, people claiming to be part of constituencies that they are not and people listing themselves as independent when they
are known to have affiliations and sometimes business relationships with parties with commercial and legal interests at stake in the RDS discussions, until we get the basics such as these things correct its hard to take an informed decision on the need or
want to take an independent member of the working group into a leadership role that is not GNSO affiliated. </div>
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<div>Also there is a principle involved here, I firmly and strongly believe that the GNSO operates its membership in an open and inclusive manner, where almost everyone can find a home for themselves if they wish to participate in the policy development process.
And even if one feels the need to be independent we offer open membership to non-affiliated persons and they are considered fully during all dissuasions and decision making efforts. However at the core of the PDP is the fact that it is the GNSOs mission to
create gTLD policy through its PDP, and that that role sits firmly with the GNSO not with the other ACs and Sos.</div>
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<div>I am likely going to open myself up to some backlash here but I am of the opinion that we cannot allow GNSO policy development to be led by other parts of the ICANN ecosphere, the role of the GNSO is diluted when we do so and results in a GNSO that is
not performing the self-control that it needs to do in order to fulfil its own mission. In particular when it comes to AC’s participating in leadership roles on a PDP like this I feel that it in some way violates the system of checks and balances that ICANN
is formed on, AC’s such as ALAC an the GAC have the opportunity to provide advice to the board when the results of GNSO PDPs come for consideration by the ICANN board, to wish to lead those same PDPs I feel takes two bites from the apple, and given that ALAC
and At-Large members are free to participate in the policy development process as decisional members I think that adding leadership roles to that dynamic complicates things massively.</div>
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<div>TL;DR: Its the GNSOs role in ICANN to produce policy for gTLDs therefore this needs to be a GNSO led process with open and collaborative membership.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Sana Ali <<a href="mailto:sana.ali2030@gmail.com">sana.ali2030@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday 4 February 2016 at 1:33 a.m.<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Jennifer Gore Standiford <<a href="mailto:JStandiford@web.com">JStandiford@web.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Please participate - poll on RDS PDP WG leadership team characteristics<br>
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<div class="">Experience should certainly be a matter of importance when determining who should be in leadership roles, but to suggest it should also be required for something as simple as voting on who should be in those roles, based on pretty straightforward
and comprehensible principles, I find a bit dangerous. It inhibits participation based on…prior participation, which can become a slippery slope.</div>
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<div class="">And from following the discussion, as a newcomer, I have at least picked up on the fact that even more experienced members of this group seem in no way unanimous on what should be the key characteristics of the team.</div>
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<div class="">There is a fundamental problem here, in my view. There are a great many members of the group who are not accustomed to ICANN and its SGs. We are therefore asking them to vote on something with which they have no/little experience. Not sure
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<div class="">As discussed, staff has created a poll to solicit the WG’s input on the key characteristics of the RDS PDP WG Leadership Team which we hope will help inform the the WG’s deliberations on this topic during next week’s meeting. This poll will be
followed by a second poll later this week which will allow WG members to indicate which candidates they would like to endorse for the leadership team. To participate in the poll, please go to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://s.zoomerang.com/r/RDSPDPWGleadership" class="">https://s.zoomerang.com/r/RDSPDPWGleadership</a>.
If you have difficulties accessing this page and/or completing the poll, please contact me off-list.</div>
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