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Excellent statement Rudi, thanks very much!!<br>
Stephanie Perrin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-09-30 11:31, Rudi Vansnick
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<span class="">NPOC has reviewed the Westlake Governance's Final
GNSO Review Report and submits the following comments and
observations. <br class="">
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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 class="">
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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 class="">
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In NPOC’s review of the Final GNSO Review Report two specific
issues stand out. <br class="">
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<li class="">The first concern, shared with other
constituencies, is that the methods used to gather and
analyze evidence in the report have serious
shortcomings. </li>
<li class="">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.</li>
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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 class="">
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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 class="">
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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. <br class="">
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