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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div style="text-align:justify">Hello,</div><div style="text-align:justify"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify">I appreciate Shaked's lucid
description of the present UASG charter issues. I agree with and totally
endorse each and every suggestion he offered. They should be taken into account
while revising the UASG charter before the formal announcement of elections.</div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Seda</b>, UASG is a community-driven organisation. I'm not sure what the purpose of
using a Google form is it to solicit recommendations. Why the administrative
staff wants to gather data in secret? It’s in interest of all that such
important suggestions are taken on UA-DISCUSS list, so that everyone is aware
of the worthwhile proposals made by UASG community members and that the admin
team has taken them into account and implemented, so please allow community
members to post their comments and suggestions on the mailing list. The UASG
charter serves as the organization's guiding document, thus any recommendations
for amendments should be put on the mailing list to enable everyone to discuss
any essential revisions.</div></div><div style="text-align:justify" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>Thanks</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: YahooSans VF, YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Tahoma, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(237, 237, 243);">Alexander </span></span><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 1:28 PM, Shaked Ayelet via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear All</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br>It is time for all of us to ask the UASG leadership to review the organization's charter because we have already lost a great number of qualified individuals who helped build UASG in the past, including Ram Mohan, DON, Dennis, Edmon Chung, Richard Merdinger, Mark Svancarek, and Dusan Stojicevic. <br><br>Sad part is that due to the restrictions of the current charter, many of these persons who were the UASG’s strong pillars are no longer involved or active in the UASG group. <br><br>As per me the current charter has a lot of problems which i am highlighting as below:</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br><b>Number of people in leadership</b>: Present: One Chair and two to three Vice-Chairs. Purposed: The minimum current requirements of UASG leadership is One chair and at least Three Vice chairs should be always in position.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br><b>Term</b>: Present: Two-year terms with the possibility of one reappointment so Chairs and Vice-Chairs serve for a period of no less than two years and no more than four. Purposed: This should have been in line to ICANN Board charter at least three-year term for maximum 3 consecutive times.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> <br><b>Candidates</b>: The restriction that no more than one applicant from the same company may be a member of the UASG Admin Team should also be eliminated because it was not included in either the original charter of the UASG or the charter of ICANN. This restriction deters qualified individuals from applying and nominating themselves, particularly from major corporations like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, verisign, Afilias etc. Let the community determine whether or not they want more members of the same groups on the admin team when candidates are chosen through community vote. Nevertheless, in the interest of diversity if required we can have policy that No more than one candidate from the same company may run for the same seat/position i.e. Not more than one person should participate in election for chair and Not more than one person should participate in election for Vice chair from the same organization.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br><b>Involvement of All previous UASG leadership/admin team</b>: To keep them engaged and continue supporting the continuing work of UASG, a dedicated working group of all former veterans who were members of the leadership and administrative team should be established.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br>All are urged to evaluate the current charter and the UASG election procedure, and support the present UASG leadership to consider implementing the following proposals as essential changes to the current charter in response to UA community suggestions before moving ahead for new elections.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br>Thanks.<br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);letter-spacing:0.1px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;"><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color: inherit;">Shaked Ayelet</font></span><br></div></div><br><div class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:58 PM Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167gmail_quote"><div class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167msg3420374661954121067">
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<p style="background:white;" class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">Dear UASG members,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="background:white;" class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">UASG Leadership has developed a generic Election Process and a Timeline that can be used for future UASG Leadership elections.
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<p class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">The Draft Election Process and the Timeline are now published at<span class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167m_3420374661954121067apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);" lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf</a></span><span lang="EN-IE">,
that is also accessible from <a href="https://uasg.tech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/</a>.
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<p class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">Kindly review the election process and the timeline, and provide your feedback through the webform
<a href="https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7</a>
</span><b><span style="color:red;" lang="EN-US">by 30 October 2022.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p style="background:white;" class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">After 30 October, UASG leadership team will take into account the input received and finalize the UASG Election Process and Timeline. The final<span class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167m_3420374661954121067apple-converted-space"> process
</span>will then be published at<span class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167m_3420374661954121067apple-converted-space"> <a href="https://uasg.tech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/</a>.
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<p style="background:white;" class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;" lang="EN-US">We look forward to your feedback.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="ydp2d15c5c0yiv8761371167MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">Seda Akbulut<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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