<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Sent from Samsung tablet</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Sam Lanfranco <lanfran@YORKU.CA> <br>Date:07/03/2014 1:49 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <br>Subject: Re: [council] FW: Letter from Cherine Chalaby <br><br>This RC domain names issue points back to a bigger issue for NCSG, the <br>non-commercial/not-for-profit society constituencies, and civil society <br>in general. It is almost as though the civil society stakeholders take a <br>Whack-a-Mole strategy, mobilizing to Whack at a policy issue when it <br>surfaces, often to then go on to other areas when another Policy-Mole <br>sticks sit head up in ICANN’s policy remit.<br><br>This is in marked contrast to how the commercial and government <br>constituencies approach these issues. They maintain both early warning <br>and early intervention systems. As has been pointed out, business <br>constituency lobbyists are already at work in the halls of government <br>advancing their strategic interests in the IANA transition process. <br>Their 360 degree assessment (environmental scan) assumes early and <br>sustained intervention as ongoing process, one which by the way breeds <br>familiarity and has benefits beyond the Policy-Mole at hand. This is the <br>opposite of a Whack-a-Mole strategy. In the case of RC, they understood <br>this and used their clout to act more like commercial stakeholder <br>protagonists.<br><br>The wider lesson here is that the NCSG needs not only broader and deeper <br>stakeholder engagement. It needs an internal strategy that goes beyond <br>Whack-a-Mole and better matches with on-going strategies used by <br>commercial and government protagonists, at least within the domain of <br>ICANN’s remit. NCSG directly, or via its members, can only do this in <br>collaboration with others, across the full scope of the Internet <br>ecosystem. This is an area that needs development, possibly within <br>ICANN, and certainly beyond ICANN.<br><br>Sam L.<br></body></html>