I fully agree.

Would be good to reach out to him directly and facilitate a
conversation about his thoughts/intentions with the process before we
make a judgment on whether his participation is a good or a bad thing.

Best,

Michael

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Stephanie Perrin
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Personally, I am not worried at all about Veni Markovski being the rep here,
> he has been around a long time and has a great reputation.  He was
> originally on CPSR.  I also think it is important that ICANN have
> representation here, to defend against any bright ideas folks may come up
> with to make ICANN the "one-stop-shopping" centre approach that some parties
> have wanted/expected it to take.  I do think we should invite Mr. Markovski
> to brief us in the future on what is going on with this group.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
>
> On 2018-01-13 8:40 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
>
> Hopefully they have joined to make the case for why the technical community
> should not be involved in content regulation. But I fear I'm giving them too
> much benefit of the doubt. There should be transparency and community
> involvement in these important discussions, but sadly I know there won't be,
> and all we can probably hope for is a vague blog post after the fact.
>
> — Ayden
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high
> level group on fake news and online disinformation.
> Local Time: 13 January 2018 2:15 PM
> UTC Time: 13 January 2018 13:15
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Thank you Sam. We are championing for ICANN not to become a content
> regulator and ICANN staffer get appointed to EC initiative on fake news and
> online disinformation. I really wonder why. Why should ICANN be even
> involved with this?
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> FYI:
>>
>> The European Commission (EC) has appointed 39 experts to a new High Level
>> Group (HLEG) on fake news and online disinformation.
>> It comprises representatives of the civil society, social media platforms,
>> news media organisations, journalists and academia.
>> Professor dr. Madeleine de Cock Buning is nominated to chair the Group.
>>
>> The ICANN person in the HLEG  is Veni Markovski, currently ICANN's
>> Vice-President for UN engagement, based in New York.
>
> --
> Farzaneh
>
>
>