<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hello Raymond </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">These were excellent suggestions from Shaked,
and I don't see any problems with any of them as the UASG community would
choose whoever wins the election, so there is no reason to exclude anyone from
running. According to my own opinion, there shouldn't be any restrictions on
who may run for the position in the community.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We already have a reduced time span from three
to two years, so why do we only have constraints of two if ICANN permits three
consecutive terms?</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I believe it is in the best interests of the UA
community and UASG to put the great ideas offered by shaked into action and
remove the obstacles.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Best Wishes</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Yisrael</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:43 PM Raymond Mamattah via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hello all,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Great suggestion from Shaked, but I will disagree with the point to allow more than one person from an organization to take leadership role.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If this is allowed it's possible these people could influence decisions to favour such an entity. In the interest of diversity I suggest we stick to the No more than one person from the same entity. This is done in some other ICANN constituencies as well.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I also suggest we stick to the two years term for no more than two terms. Because to change it to a three year term for possible reelection for three times means the leadership could be in place for a whole nine (9) years. This is not laudable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I however support the idea of bringing in the great knowledge of the past executives and the pioneers. Maybe they could form an advisory role.<br><br><div dir="auto">Regards,<br><br>Raymond Mamattah<br>Accra, Ghana <br><br>    </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:58 AM Shaked Ayelet via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" target="_blank">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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">Shaked Ayelet</font></span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:58 PM Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>





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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dear UASG members,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">UASG Leadership has developed a generic Election Process and a Timeline that can be used for future UASG Leadership elections.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The Draft Election Process and the Timeline are now published at<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf" rel="noreferrer" 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="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/</a>.
<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Kindly review the election process and the timeline, and provide your feedback through the webform
<a href="https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7</a>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">by 30 October 2022.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">After 30 October, UASG leadership team will take into account the input received and finalize the UASG Election Process and Timeline. The final<span> process
</span>will then be published at<span> <a href="https://uasg.tech/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/</a>.
</span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We look forward to your feedback.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Seda Akbulut<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(on behalf of UASG Leadership team)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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