Thank you Kawsu. Please let me know if I or any other of our fine volunteers can help you with anything. It's a complicated proposal but one I hope many people will try to understand and and let us know what they think about it. Best, Ed Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Feb 2016, at 01:59, Kawsu Sillah <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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] 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 > > > -- > Best Regards, > > > Kawsu Sillah > about.me/ksillah > > > > AMBASSADOR ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition. > > Mobile : +220 9865300 | 6865300 | 3965300 > Skype: profkawsu | Facebook: Kawsu.f.Sillah > Twitter: @ksillah1 | LinkedIn: KAWSU SILLAH >