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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rudi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you so much for your email and remarks. These are all very important points, which need to be addressed. I know we have a call scheduled to start here
shortly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In the interest of using our time as productively as possible today, I’d like to suggest that we proceed as planned with talking through the other 35 recommendations
and deciding if we, as the Working Party, think each recommendation is one that is generally supported by the community and feasible or if we think it is not generally supported or not feasible. We can base this on the public comments received on the recommendations
and input from your respective groups. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This will help us to be prepared for the upcoming Dublin meeting. If the OEC were to accept your recommendation that this be treated as a “Green Paper,” we would
still want to be prepared with our opinion on which recommendations would be appropriate to move into implementation so I think however the issue you raised is resolved, our recommendations will be meaningful in an effort for continuous improvement in the
GNSO. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There were 178 members of our community who did complete surveys and 40+ people who were interviewed, so I think taking a look at the recommendations and providing
our perspective would be helpful to the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I look forward to talking with you all shortly!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org [mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rudi Vansnick<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gnso-review-dt@icann.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Excom NPOC <excom@npoc.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gnso-review-dt] NPOC comments, remarks and statement to the GNSO rec 23.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NPOC has reviewed the Westlake Governance's Final GNSO Review Report and submits the following comments and observations. <br>
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First, we wish to set the context for these comments. NPOC consists of and represents non-profit and civil society constituency organizations. NPOC strives to encompass and represent the interests and concerns of that vast constituency of organizations for
whom the Internet ecosystem and DNS operational concerns impact on their mission and their work, but for whom their mission and work focus on community development, social justice, human services, etc., and not on the Internet per se. <br>
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NPOC sees outreach to the constituency to raise awareness and engagement as central to its mission, and as important as bringing constituency organizations into ICANN volunteer work and ICANN policy development and implementation. For a multistakeholder organization
to survive and thrive there is need for broad and deep constituency engagement. <br>
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In NPOC’s review of the Final GNSO Review Report two specific issues stand out. <o:p></o:p></p>
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The first concern, shared with other constituencies, is that the methods used to gather and analyze evidence in the report have serious shortcomings. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The second is that a number of the conclusions and recommendations lack appreciation of the context within ICANN, lack an adequate evidence base, and are under defined for purposes of implementation.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, NPOC does not wish to address specific issues within the conclusions and recommendations contained in the Report. To do so would overlook the broader issue of methods used. It also risks offering validation of Report content where
validation is not warranted. <br>
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NPOC has larger concerns with regard to the potential uses of the Report. NPOC would have no issue with the Final GNSO Review Report being treated as a "green paper" and food for thought within the ICANN multistakeholder community. NPOC would have serious reservations
about the report being used as "expert" justification for top-down ICANN Board action with regard to the GNSO. That would be an abuse of the ways in which expertise should be incorporated into decision making in what should be a bottom up multistakeholder
decision making process. <br>
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In short, NPOC calls for the Board to treat the Westlake Final GNSO Review Report as food for thought and return the Review of the GNSO to a bottom up stakeholder decision making process. Such a process may take longer, and be a bit less orderly, but it will
have greater legitimacy within ICANN’s remit as a multistakeholder organization and produce better results in the long run. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia UCAS",serif;color:black">Rudi Vansnick</span><span style="font-family:"Euphemia UCAS",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Euphemia UCAS",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.npoc.org">www.npoc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia UCAS",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@npoc.org">rudi.vansnick@npoc.org</a></span><span style="font-family:"Euphemia UCAS",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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