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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Philip Sheppard
[mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 6 June 2006 7:25
PM<BR><B>Subject:</B> GNSO Board Election<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=087204309-07062006><FONT color=#0000ff> I </FONT></SPAN>n the
week that the voting starts I just wanted to make contact with your constituency
again and hope that I will get your support.<BR>I have a good resonance from
across the constituencies and the nom comm representatives and believe I have a
good chance to win this election. Moreover I have full confidence to be both
able to participate in every issue before the Board and to leverage my existing
goodwill and contacts with the current Board members to be able to work with
them cooperatively and in the best interests of ICANN. My time spent in the GNSO
will provide authority for me to speak on GNSO issues.<BR><BR>As a reminder my
key priorities are listed below:<BR>a) <STRONG>Competition</STRONG>. To remind
the Board whenever necessary of its responsibility to increase competition at
the registry level.<BR>b) <STRONG>A listening Board</STRONG>. To ensure the
Board listens to and understands ALL the policy before it, not just how policy
has been presented to it via the staff filter.<BR>c) Res<STRONG>ources for
policy</STRONG>. To fight for the appropriate level of resources to support the
policy development work of all supporting organisations including the necessary
challenges of interaction with other bodies such as the Government Advisory
Committee.<BR>d) <STRONG>Enhancing trust</STRONG>. To ensure Board decision
making takes into account the effect of decisions on public and community trust;
including issues of improving effective compliance.<BR>e) <STRONG>Pending
resolutions</STRONG>. To call for a short-term appraisal of GNSO resolutions
sent to the Board that are pending consideration such as the request for the
publication of new registry contracts prior to adoption.<BR>f) <STRONG>Budget
balance</STRONG>. To ensure Board decisions on the ICANN budget have the
appropriate balance between financial stability for the ICANN secretariat and
fairness in collection mechanisms.<BR>g) <STRONG>Value for money</STRONG>. To
ensure that Board decisions on the ICANN budget put in place mechanisms to
ensure the efficient use of funds, so that budget increases translate directly
into better services and greater efficacy. In short, to work towards a community
perception that ICANN is delivering value for money.<BR>h)
<STRONG>Feedback</STRONG>. To ensure the GNSO gets the best ever feedback about
Board activities, agendas and decisions by both endeavouring personally to do
this in the short-term, and medium term to ensure resources are in place for
this to be standard practice to the benefit of all supporting organisations and
the community. This should include feedback from Board and President’s
committees.<BR><BR><BR>Philip<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>