Good work there Ed and team!
Very nice and inspiring email. Big 👍
I'll read the report and send you any feedback/question I may have.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Kawsu.
On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 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]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>. You can reach
> me on the Wire app using the address [log in to unmask]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[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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