<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Sam,<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do not want to start any debate, just one simple statement : NPOC mission is to elaborate and work on policy related to NGO’s and not-for-profit organizations use of the DNS, as is clearly described in our charter (art 1.2).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div data-canvas-width="359.9099999999999" style="left: 240.082px; top: 514.898px; transform: scaleX(1.02738);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="4" class="">The NPOC shall engage the ICANN community on how proposed and existing policies and initiatives uniquely impact not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations and the delivery of their mission-related services. Specific operational concerns include: domain name registration, expansion of the DNS, fraud and abuse, using the DNS to provide and collect information to members and to serve members and communities. </font></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thus, somehow Carlos made clear he and his organisation did not see the appropriate work been developed. I do not want to argue on not-understanding, each of us can have an own opinion and that’s fair in a democratic world. I did not feel any refusal of recognition nor understanding by Carlos on the argumentation. Sometimes we are too engaged and forget to use our ears and listen to our members. Lessons taken here for the future.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to highlight the importance of our public participation in the policy work, through PDP and non-PDP working groups, by posting our statements and comments to the reports and proposals in the public comments.I have to recognize the importance of NPOC’s voice in the many ongoing policy changes especially those related directly to the stability and safe use of the DNS. Many NGO’s are victims of the abuse of the DNS and need appropriate assistance by elaborating the discussions inside the ICANN community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As the chair of NPOC, I have to admit we have been quite absent in producing the adequate reactions to ongoing policy development. I strongly encourage all of you to work closely with us and engage where possible in working groups or policy discussions. If you hesitate, if you have any concerns, please call on us, we will assist you, we will mentor you in order to enable the NGO’s voice in the DNS policy changes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I dare hope you all will understand the difficulties we are engaged in and will join me in looking forward to enable NPOC being THE NGO’s voice in the DNS policy. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS : I’m doing well although the brutal facts happened in Brussels. A very close friend is a victim, survived the bombing, heavily injured at his legs, not sure he will be able to walk again … I’ll spent some time tomorrow with him, so will occasionally be online.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards, </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Op 23 mrt. 2016, om 19:17 heeft Sam Lanfranco <<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca" class="">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> het volgende geschreven:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><small class="">Carlos, I will not belabor the
point that you do not understand this at all. I tried to explain
the two pronged strategy to you at the meeting in Marrakesh and
you simply refused to understand it there as well. We are
pressing for greater not-for-profit and civil society
organization engagement in the chartering and PDP processes <b class="">AND</b>,
in response to organizational members whose focus is pressing
social issues and not primarily Internet governance, suggesting
an additional initial way to get involved. I am not pleased by
your personal attacks either. They have no place in a consensus
driven governance process. One might suspect that there is an
additional hidden agenda there. <br class="">
<br class="">
You have made your points here and demonstrated that you miss
understand both the intention and the effort. You go further and
make assertions that are wildly off the mark. I would urge you
to consult with your colleagues on this. I have never made
suggestions about being a full member of the Council, I prefer
to spend most of my time in the trenches working with those who
wish to have a stronger voice in the matters that affect their
lives on this fragile planet. <br class="">
<br class="">
If others have similar concerns to yours I ask them to speak up.
For some reason you are reading one-half of the message and
ignoring the other half. You have made you point. I trust that
you will leave it to others to assess the relative merits of
your assertions, and the relative merits of my efforts, and that
both of us will be guided accordingly by the measured voices of
others. If my efforts are misguided I will stop and step back. I
trust that you are committed to doing the same. <br class="">
<br class="">
Sam L, NPOC Policy Committee<br class="">
<br class="">
<font color="#663366" class="">On 23/03/2016 1:28 PM, Carlos Raúl
Gutiérrez G. wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote cite="mid:DD89FF47-2B01-497F-9BE9-E9BF6373F8D1@isoc-cr.org" type="cite" class=""><font color="#663366" class=""><small class="">Dear Sam,
<br class="">
<br class="">
Thank you for your note. It brings me back to our meeting in
Marrakech where you presented your own definition that NPOC
role is advisory in nature, and only at the last moment of
comment periods. I couldn´t agree less. It would make this
group rather unattractive to new members and ineffective as a
constituency. It does not serve Rudi`s great effort in the
recent PDPs on Translation and Transliteration either. And the
advantage of having a written exchange is that you can not
keep interrupting me arguing that I don`t understand (you). So
here is my written position on your suggestions:
<br class="">
<br class="">
I can not agree that the NPOC, which is a constituency within
the GNSO council, asumes that we have no time&resources to
get involved throughout the PDPs. This is not consistent with
the duties of being part of the GNSO in my personal view as
Councillor. If the whole NPOC would agree with your position
that this should be the case, there is no role for the NPOC
within the NCPH in my view and ICANN resources are not well
allocated. This could be in my view a serious transparency
issue, financing a constituency that by your standards feels
it has no moral duty to participate in the PDP work from the
beginning to the end. By BEGINNING I mean all previous work to
the initiation of a PDP, like CWGs. And by END I mean
implementation work of approved policies. The whole policy
cycle.
<br class="">
<br class="">
If the NPOC has become too thin to be a full and active member
of the NCPH, then its “comment period” work on Not-for-Profit
and Civil Society Internet Policy Concerns should be better
delegated to ALAC, which is supposed to be advisory only and
well adjusted to the comment periods. Moreover, ALAC at least
guarantees fair geographic representation which is far from
guaranteed in NPOC. As an organisational member of NPOC, ISOC
Costa Rica Chapter wants a clear and definite discussion of
NPOC as a whole on this issue, because we may have to
consider withdrawing our membership and participation in this
constituency and limit our participation in ICANN as an At
Large Structure only.
<br class="">
<br class="">
At this crucial times of defining Accountability and
Transparency standards for the community as a whole, I want an
open and transparent discussion on your suggestions to be a
full member of the Council, but do only half of the work
expected from any other GNSO constituency.
<br class="">
<br class="">
Best regards
<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
<br class="">
Chair
<br class="">
ISOC Costa Rica Chapter
<br class="">
+506 8837 7176
<br class="">
Skype: carlos.raulg
<br class="">
Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
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<blockquote cite="mid:DD89FF47-2B01-497F-9BE9-E9BF6373F8D1@isoc-cr.org" type="cite" class=""><font color="#990000" class=""><small class=""><i class="">On 23 Mar 2016, at
10:34, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i></small></font>
<blockquote type="cite" class=""><font color="#990000" class=""><small class=""><i class="">This is a
brief note from the NPOC Policy Committee. As a non-profit
organization/civil society (NPO/CS) constituency group
within ICANN, NPOC has two goals:
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">·As part of ICANN’s multistakeholder governance
mandate, it is important that NPOC increase the voice of
the NPO/CC constituency in the policies of ICANN as they
affect the stability and security of the global Domain
Names System (DNS) and the legitimacy of the
multistakeholder model in Internet governance.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">·It is also important that NPOC assist the NPO/CC
constituency with its awareness and understanding of the
impacts of ICANN and Internet governance polices on the
ability of NPO/CC organizations to effectively pursue
their own missions and visions.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">This note is about progress on the first goal.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">ICANN multistakeholder policy making is “bottom up”.
When a policy issue arises the ICANN process strikes a
multistakeholder chartering group to develop terms of
reference for a multistakeholder Policy Development
Process Working Group which works up a consensus policy
proposal to be considered by the ICANN multistakeholder
community.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">While stakeholders, including NPOC members, are urged
to get involved early in the policy development, it is
recognized that NPO/CC stakeholder organizations have
limited resources and volunteer time to be deeply involved
in issues of Internet governance.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">Within ICANN there is however one last opportunity to
comment on policy proposals, one which would demand little
time from NPOC members, and that is the final “Comments
Period”, the last review stage before a policy proposal is
finalized, to be approved by consensus and sent to the
ICANN board for implementation.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">To assist NPO/CC engagement the NPOC Policy Committee
will produce very brief “NPOC Notice of Call for Comment”
postings here. Postings that contain a link to the
comments page, the deadline for comments, and a sentence
or two linking the policy to NPO/CS self-interests.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">Please take the time to comment when you can, and
feel free to also use this forum <npoc-discuss> if
you have questions or wish to raise issues around policy
proposals. You are of course urged and welcome to get
involved in the policy process as early as possible. This
is an important step in insuring NPO/CS engagement in
Internet policy.
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">Sam Lanfranco, Chair,
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">
</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">NPOC Policy Committee
</i><i class=""><br class="">
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