Dear Ed, Robin, and all those who have been involved in the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability—
Thank you for representing the constituency's views so well. You do not need me
to tell you how monumental your work here has been, but your commitment,
efforts, and patience here is most certainly noted. The final report you have
linked to is overwhelmingly long but I will commit to reading it by Marrakech. I
am thankful to Robin for writing a very clear minority statement which
identifies some problematic areas in the report, and Milton's blog post is an
extraordinarily useful introduction that makes approaching the report a much
less daunting task. But I digress: THANK YOU again for everything that you have
done.
Best wishes,
Ayden
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Edward Morris < [log in to unmask] > 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

Ayden Férdeline Statement of Interest