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<p>Huyen Le Khac:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-01-09 01:51, Huyen Le Khac
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Jim</span></p>
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appreciate your engagement and the time you took to
respond. However, I would like to address some points to
ensure clarity on
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Likewise, I appreciate your engagement. Thank you.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">…<span
style="font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(32,33,36);letter-spacing:0.1pt">In
reference to the UASG working group charter, it is
crucial to note that the chair's role is designated for one
calendar year. To
avoid any confusion, a calendar year is defined as the period
between January 1
and December 31. It has nothing to do with ICANN's fiscal
year, which concludes
on June 30 as mentioned by you. The charter explicitly
specifies a calendar
year, and I believe it is important to adhere to the
documented guidelines.…</span></div>
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<p>You are correct. I found the wording you mention, for instance in
the EAI Working Group charter[1], page 2: <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Chair of the Working Group… The chair role
is for one calendar year. He/she should be nominated one month
prior to the end of the current chair’s term to ensure a smooth
transition. There is no limit on the number of terms chair(s)
may have.…</blockquote>
Given that clear statement of "calendar year", it is curious that
the calls for nomination (e.g. [2]) went out in July, not the
previous December. It looks like the people running the process
silently slipped from calendar year to fiscal year, and from
conducting the selection before the start of the term to just
after the start of the term. <br>
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<p>I agree with you that it is desirable for the leadership to
address this difference.</p>
<p>You also say,<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span
style="font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(32,33,36);letter-spacing:0.1pt">…I
believe it's crucial for all UASG to align with the
documented charters to maintain consistency and transparency
within the UASG
framework until they are not updated again with community
consensus.…</span>
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<p>You said earlier[3],</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">…I strongly advocate for a revision of the
terms for working group chairs and vice chairs, with a maximum
term of 2 years. Following this period, individuals should be
encouraged to take a rest period, allowing for the infusion of
fresh perspectives and the involvement of new contributors.…</blockquote>
My conclusion differs from yours. You appear to believe that there
are new contributors clamouring to be involved, and the existing
WG leaders are blocking them. That is not my experience, based on
participating actively in three working groups.</p>
<p>I see that each of these working group has only 2-4 active
members who are present for most meetings, plus maybe 10 more who
appear and contribute for a fraction of the meetings, or who
appear for most of the meetings but do not contribute actively.
Thus we do not have many active contributors who have the
experience and proven track record to take on the role of working
group vice-chair, nor many vice-chairs ready for the role of
chair. I suspect that some of the current working group chairs
would love to take a rest period, but they stay because no
qualified person offers to replace them.</p>
<p>More fundamentally, I think that the most important task of us in
the UASG is to advance Universal Acceptance in the world. A
secondary task is to behave within the UASG in the spirit of our
charters and codes of conduct. Behaving within the letter of the
charters only comes third. If I can have the first and second, I
am willing to be understanding on the third. (And to be clear, I
am not satisfied with our performance of the first task: we have
less impact on Universal Acceptance in the world than we could.)<br>
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<p>It seems to me that you propose making the letter of the charters
the most important task. Are you willing for the group to have
even less impact in promoting Universal Acceptance, just so that
working group chairs step down on Dec 31st?</p>
<p>For anyone on this list who would like to see current Working
Group chairs or Ambassadors step down, I have a challenge for you:
become the strong candidate. Become visibly active advancing
Universal Acceptance, within UASG or out in the world. Come work
with us in the working groups. Set up a UA Day event[4], with or
without UASG funding. Personally, if I see you establishing a
record of contributing within UASG or in the world, I will be open
to supporting you for a vice-chair role. And if I see you working
effectively as a vice-chair, I will be open to supporting you for
a WG chair role. And I would not be surprised if a current, rather
exhausted, WG chair might support you also.<br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, (not a chair or a vice-chair of anything)</p>
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<p>[1] UASG Technology Working Group Charter
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UASG-Tech-Working-Group-Charter-20190919.pdf"><https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UASG-Tech-Working-Group-Charter-20190919.pdf></a><br>
[2] "[UA-Measurement] Nominations for UA Measurement WG Vice-Chair
positions - Now Open"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-measurement/2023-July/000783.html"><https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-measurement/2023-July/000783.html></a><br>
[3] "[UA-discuss] UASG Working Group Positions Renewal Status"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/2024-January/004433.html"><https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/2024-January/004433.html></a><br>
[4] Call for Proposals<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://universalacceptance.day"><https://universalacceptance.day></a><br>
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