[UA-discuss] Call for Nominations

Sat Feb 23 15:45:07 UTC 2019

It is also morning for me. And I must say I am very discouraged by the
harsh criticism in the UASG emails.
 Four years ago there was NOTHING. Not one document. No outreach, not even
a list of the problems.  The leaders have put forward their best efforts. I
challenge everyone *complaining* about UASG leadership to go through the
meeting notes, annual reports, etc then write a list of everything
accomplished, and hours volunteered. Also note which of those items you may
have accomplished.
Then I challenge you to make a plan for how YOU are going to fix the
outstanding issues, since this is a volunteer effort.
The world is harsh enough- we really don’t need this level of
unsubstantiated negativity targeted at a small group of people doing their
best to work on A Very Big Problem.
Elaine

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 3:49 AM Jae Moon <jae_moon at outlook.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Alexey
>
> Thought provoking mail early morning, it truly wakening to me. So true, in
> last four years we never assessed that the contribution of every individual
> holding positions of Chair and Vice Chairs in UA administrative group were
> completely unsuccessful to do any justice with the position as their own
> organizations have not shown any positive move towards UA adoption, it
> extremely force me to believe that we were having a very week leadership of
> UASG. If we would have strong leaders with vision, creativity and, most
> importantly, the ability to influence others to support them in the
> challenges of moving an organisation into unchartered territory they would
> have not failed in this mission internally atleast. I do agree that present
> members of UA administrative group fail to stand behind those decisions
> after they have already been made by them.
>
> A good leadership keeps an open mind, considers all different points of
> view, and makes decisions with confidence. Hesitation and second-guessing
> only lead to a lack of support from followers and ultimate failure which is
> visible in whatever has happened in UASG in last four years.
>
> I second everything you mentioned in your email and will be open to give
> chance this time to completely new team who can commit to achieve UASG
> mission, the reason we learn about history in school is so that we don’t
> repeat the mistakes from our pasts. Of course, we must know and understand
> how and why we made these mistakes to avoid making the same ones in the
> future.
>
> Greetings
>
> Jae Moon
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Alexey
> Golikova via UA-discuss <ua-discuss at icann.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 23, 2019 3:25 PM
> *To:* ua-discuss at icann.org
> *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] Call for Nominations
>
>
> All,
>
> The mission for the UASG was always been to support the concept that all
> domain names should be treated equally and has evolved to include email
> addresses (including Email Address Internationalization).  Inspite of the
> extensive support of ICANN and so qualified experts engaged from past four
> years in UASG we were still not able to achieve the desired awareness and
> documentations which would have helped adoption of UA, IDN’s and EAI.
>
> Available information and documents on uasg.tech do not address all open
> questions and the effort does not reflect a “mission accomplished.”
>
> Infact the efforts and deliverables to date from the existing
> administrative group is not at all visible. As a matter of great surprise
> the members of *existing administrative group even failed to make their
> own businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready till date with is
> decidedly discouraging for the community and have great question mark on
> their leadership*, dedication and focus for UA.
>
> I individually believes that *if there will be no change of individuals
> in existing administrative group and people just swap the positions for
> namesake then I seriously don’t see that anything will change in UASG
> approach to promote the development and adoption of recommended practices
> and deployable assets that will enable the currently *excluded ones to
> get online and experience the wealth of opportunity that a natively
> accessible internet can provide.
>
> *What I as members of UASG community expect from new administrative group:*
>
>    1. They must lead with example and make clear Commitment to make their
>    own businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready without any more
>    delay.
>    2. Effectively impart the value and potential benefits of adopting UA
>    outside of a small set of engaged providers and must have a help/support
>    available for them.
>    3. Dedicate their team and official’s to advocate the concepts of UA
>    and encourage its adoption widely in every region.
>    4. Dedicate their complete focus on IDN and EAI. These are very
>    important efforts within the UA agenda and should get substantial resources
>    / industry experts for its further expansion of supporting technologies.
>    5. Develop meaningful materials to provide quality guidance for
>    implementers and solution providers.
>    6. Use UASG funds wisely in outreach, communications and awareness
>    component of IDNs, EAI, which has completely lacked over the past four
>    years.
>
> I suggest everyone in the group must genuinely think and then support any
> individual for any position chair/vice-chairs, there is no impairment if we
> seriously think to have a very strong dedicated and focused individuals now
> in the administrative group so that what we were unable to achieve in last
> four years do not happen again.
>
> What we should consider is to give chance to those strong think tanks who
> can help internet community on bringing the mission of Universal Acceptance
> to a strong and successful result. Four years period is not small period
> which we have given to existing individuals presently involved in
> administrative group and we are still nowhere.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alexey
> Chief of Information & Technology
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>
> *To:* "ua-discuss at icann.org" <ua-discuss at icann.org>
> *Subject: *[UA-discuss] Call for Nominations
> *Date:* 20 Feb 2019 09:22:45 AM
>
> *Elections for UASG Chair and Vice-Chair – 2019*
>
> The UASG is having elections for the Chair and Vice Chair.  Here’s the
> process.   NB: All times are 23:00 UTC
> Nominations
>
> This is a call for nominations.
>
> Anyone subscribed to the UA-discuss at icann.org mailing list is eligible to
> stand.
>
> Nominations (including self-nominations) should be sent to *info at uasg.tech
> <info at uasg.tech>*and should include:
>
>    - the name of the person nominated
>    - the position(s) for which they are nominated
>    - contact details for the person nominated.  This should include an
>    email address and a telephone number.
>
> The election administrator will verify that the nominated person accepts
> the nomination.
>
> Once the nomination deadline has passed on *February 27 2019* a list of
> candidates will be prepared showing name, email address, photo and
> candidate statement.  Names will be shown by position in alphabetical order
> of surnames.
>
>  Candidates can be nominated for Chair, Vice-Chair or both.
>
>  *Relevant links:*
>
>    - Position Description-Chair
>    https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07-Position-Description-Chair-UASG.pdf
>    - Position Description-Vice-Chair
>    https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07-Position-Description-Vice-Chair-UASG.pdf
>
>
>
> Other documents of interest may be found at www.uasg.tech/documents
> Voting
>
> Voting will be done using www.opavote.com
>
> For the Chair the method used will be Instant Runoff Voting
> https://www.opavote.com/methods/instant-runoff-voting
>
> For the Vice-Chair the method used will be Scottish STV
> https://www.opavote.com/methods/single-transferable-vote#scottish-stv
>
> These voting methods allow voters to rank their choices.
>
> Voting will open on March 3, 2019 and close on March 10, 2019.  Decisions
> will be announced as soon as they are ready and have been verified.
>
>
>
> Don Hollander
>
> Secretary General – UASG
>
> Skype: Don_Hollander
>
>
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