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 > > > > -- Best Regards, [image: --] Kawsu Sillah [image: https://]about.me/ksillah <https://about.me/ksillah?promo=email_sig> AMBASSADOR <https://ideas.itu.int/page/view/933> ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition. Mobile : +220 9865300 | 6865300 | 3965300 Skype: profkawsu | Facebook: Kawsu.f.Sillah <https://www.facebook.com/kawsu.f.sillah> Twitter: @ksillah1 | LinkedIn: KAWSU SILLAH <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=103784437&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile_pic>