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I'm also quite happy we made it to the finish line. I would also like
to underline the win we made where it comes to human rights, and
especially the role the participants in the Cross Community Working
Party on ICANNs Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human
Rights played in that, many of which are NCSG members, and especially
Tatiana Tropina.
And I would also like to mention James, Farzi, Brenden, Arun, Aarti
and Avri who have been there pretty much all the time.
This really was a team effort, something we can be proud of imho.
Cheers,
Niels
On 02/24/2016 04:26 AM, Kathy Kleiman wrote:
> Dear Ed, Robin, Milton, Matt and all who negotiated our CCWG
> positions, Tx you for the nights, weekends, holidays, vacations and
> time from family, friends, work and life that you took to go
> through thousands of emails, hundreds of calls, innumerable
> meetings and stressful public consultations. Congratulations on
> reaching this point of agreement and a final report!
>
> I have read Milton's article The Transition: The Good, The Bad and
> the Ugly at
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/02/19/the-transition-the-good-t
he-bad-and-the-ugly/.
>
>
I will now dive into the Final Report at the link below. I hope
> everyone will...
>
> Tx you Ed for letting us know about recent developments! Good luck
> to our CCWG team catching up on sleep!
>
> Best, Kathy
>
> On 2/23/2016 8:04 PM, Edward Morris wrote:
>> Dear NCSG Member,
>>
>> The numbers are staggering; 221+ calls or meetings, 3 public
>> consultations, more than 13,900 email messages. This has been
>> the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN
>> Accountability. Today we have released our final report:
>>
>> https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58723827.
>>
>> NCSG Member and co-founder Milton Mueller has termed the report
>> "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". I can tell you there has been a
>> lot of the Ugly the past few days. I can also tell you that your
>> NCSG members who have fought for you day after day after day the
>> past fourteen months on the CCWG were there again today, at 1 in
>> the morning in America and 6 in the morning in the U.K., fighting
>> for your interests. We didn't win today but we have won more than
>> our fair shares of battles in the past and if this proposal is
>> even half acceptable it is largely due to hard unending unceasing
>> work of the finest volunteers in ICANN: those of the
>> Noncommercial Stakeholders Group.
>>
>> A special shout out goes to our Member on the CCWG: Ms. Robin
>> Gross. I don't know how Robin did all she did. Her unfortunate
>> time zone meant she often had biweekly calls at 4 a.m. Yet she
>> was always there, always awake, always fighting for you and for
>> me. In the early days we didn't have many volunteers and Robin
>> and I were covering everything ourselves. I remember one evening
>> we had just finished our seventh call that day on something
>> called the Legal sub-team and I wished Robin a good night. Night?
>> She had an eighth call coming up on something called Work Area 2
>> (not to be confused with Work Stream 2, Work Party 2, or the many
>> Sub-team 2's we've all been a part of). I felt like such a
>> slacker. Seven calls, that was nothing. Robin had eight.
>>
>> Where are we now, you may ask, in the process?
>>
>> The final report goes to the GNSO Council where your six
>> Councillors (myself, Amr Elsadr, David Cake, Stephanie Perrin,
>> Stefania Milan and Marilia Maciel) will by March 8th cast votes
>> on all twelve recommendations. As we are the folks who represent
>> you in this process we need your input, we need you to tell us
>> what you think, we need your help. We also understand it won't be
>> easy. This Report is in the hundreds of pages and it is not easy
>> reading. I'd like to offer to help.
>>
>> If you have any questions about the Final Report please ask them
>> here. One of our many CCWG participants will be sure to see it
>> and will answer it. If not I pledge to go through this list every
>> 24 hours and if there is an unanswered question about our Report
>> here I will either answer it or I will find someone who can. If
>> you'd prefer to ask me something privately my e-mail address is
>> [log in to unmask] You can reach me on the Wire app using
>> the address [log in to unmask] You can Skype me at ejmorris. I
>> want each and every one of you to have every opportunity to view,
>> understand and question any aspect of this Final Report that is
>> of interest to you. This is the most important change in ICANN in
>> over a decade. I want our members to be the best informed of any
>> group in this community.
>>
>> Let the questions and the discussion begin. Is this the ICANN
>> you want, going forward? If not, why not. If so, what do you like
>> about the proposal. Don't understand something? Ask it here. How
>> do you want me to vote on each of the twelve recommendations? I
>> ask for your guidance.
>>
>> Thanks for considering - and thanks for being part of the largest
>> and most diverse group in all of ICANN: the Noncommercial
>> Stakeholders Group. Thanks as well for trusting me to represent
>> you on the GNSO Council: it is a distinct honour that I cherish
>> each and every day.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Ed Morris
>>
>>
>>
>
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