<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Dear Jim,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Thank you for your valuable feedback.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">I must say that the SoI form has been compiled by ICANN staff and not the UASG team.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Thank you!<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 5:50 PM Jim DeLaHunt 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"><u></u>
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<p>UASG leadership:</p>
<p>I am filling out the UASG Statement of Interest (SOI) form
(<a href="https://uasg.tech/join" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/join</a>), and I do not know what this phrase
means:</p>
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</p><blockquote type="cite"><label for="m_-7330296510855057619select_input_Material Interest in ICANN UASG Governance" id="m_-7330296510855057619360065fe-4299-4a8b-934a-af0c029fda2a">Material Interest in ICANN UASG
Governance<span>*</span></label>
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<p>Do you have any type of material interest in ICANN UASG
governance and policy recommendations and outcomes?<br>
<br>
[Yes] [No]<br>
</p>
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<p>What does "material interest" mean? What kind of "governance and
policy recommendations and outcomes" does this question refer to?</p>
<p>I mean, I volunteer time to work on UASG activities. I have a
limited amount of time left in my life, so each hour is valuable.
It is important to me to spend those hours well. So, I think I
have a "material interest" on UASG "governance" creating ways to
use those hours to actually advance universal acceptance advance,
rather than slog through bureaucratic exercises. So I have a great
interest in UASG governance being effective, and in UASG policy
leading to outcomes like more universal acceptance, not just more
reports. <br>
</p>
<p>So, "Yes", I do have a "type of material interest" in "UASG
governance and policy recommendations and outcomes"?</p>
<p>But I have a feeling that is not what the question asks. <br>
</p>
<p>Could someone who commissioned this SOI form please explain what
this question means? What problem is it trying to solve?<br>
</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt<br>
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--Jim DeLaHunt, <a href="mailto:jdlh@jdlh.com" target="_blank">jdlh@jdlh.com</a> <a href="http://blog.jdlh.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.jdlh.com/</a> (<a href="http://jdlh.com/" target="_blank">http://jdlh.com/</a>)
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