<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_59948"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60214">Thank you all, the Letters have good questions and answers.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60032"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60056">Was wondering if any list of "controversial" conferences exists or is maintained by any part of the community. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60114"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60056">Also, if there are controversial conferences, does that mean there are controversial organizations, individuals, or may be countries??</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60001" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60311">Best,</div><div><br></div></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60061" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60060" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60059" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60058" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60280" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii@GMAIL.COM><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 26, 2016 10:05 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Questions to the Board?<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60260" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7783144729"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60264"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60263" dir="ltr">Thanks Kathy . Great question <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60262"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60314">I would also like to ask: </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456425389211_60266">Dear ICANN, you sometimes participate in some controversial conferences organized by some that might be even against the existence of ICANN, and then you argue that you were there in your personal capacity. Can you please define personal capacity for an ICANN Board member? Are you going to have any say in the future CEO's participation in conferences that some part of the community might not approve of ? </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv7783144729gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7783144729yqt9777283760" id="yiv7783144729yqt47118"><div class="yiv7783144729gmail_quote">On 26 February 2016 at 17:53, Kathy Kleiman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7783144729gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Sam and All,<br clear="none">
I would actually recommend making your question below a question in
its own right. We have always wondered about the money flows within
ICANN -- who is getting staff and support and who is not. If this
material is still not clear and public, it rises to a question of
its own! In putting this question on the list, we should ask that
some reports or at least a list of funding be presented by ICANN at
our meeting with the Board so we might discuss real numbers. That
would be great! <br clear="none">
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Quick note that not all questions have to be long discussions. Some
of the best questions in the past have been short and sweet-- e.g.,
Dear ICANN you are spending tens of thousands of hours training
intellectual property owners on who to pursue their rights in the
Trademark Clearinghouse, but none on registrants teaching them about
their rights to respond to Trademark Claims and Notices generated by
the Trademark Clearinghouse in New gTLDs. What are you going to do
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burden" issue I would like to ask about more transparency with
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support of AC/SC activities</i>. Who gets what to do what? <br clear="none">
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<pre>How about demanding a comprehensive account of conflict of interest steps taken/followed in the Fadi situation by Fadi, the Board members, and other senior officers? We actually want a fully vetted and prepped response on that.
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On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Padmini <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pdmnbaruah@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank" href="mailto:pdmnbaruah@GMAIL.COM">pdmnbaruah@GMAIL.COM</a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com"><mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com></a>> wrote:
Hello
I was also wondering, at Dublin we had raised our concerns about how representative the process is, and the Board had reaffirmed a commitment to go out on a limb to ensure that the participation diversity be increased. I recall both Fadi and Asha Hemrajani putting this on record.
Could we raise the question of what they've done to this effect, and if the impact, this time around, has been more meaningful?
Also, +1 to what Ed said, about not wanting ICANN Legal to come up with a nice legalese draft response.
Padmini Baruah
V Year, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.)
NLSIU, Bangalore
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Rafik Dammak <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com"><mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com></a>> wrote:
Hi Kathy,
If I can respond partly to that. the issue of increasing workload was raised more than 1 year ago by SO/AC leadership with Fadi and VPs like David during their meetings , with regard of lack of visibility and coordination of all ongoing processes with some initiated by staff. Some effort (in addition to other initiatives on other issues) started to compile the processes from SO/AC and trying to visualize them giving an insight about workload.
There was also some presentation in a session in singapore meeting last year to take community feedback. David is managing those efforts . So I would expect he will give some updates about that. He also regularly attends our joint session with board.
I will try to find the material and share them if it helps.
Best,
Rafik
On Feb 26, 2016 9:17 PM, "Kathy Kleiman" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com"><mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com></a>> wrote:
I would like to talk with them about work flow. ICANN has hired 100 policy staffers in the last year and has an enormous new capability for work flow, but we do not. There is no way to keep up with what is "in the queue" and "coming down the pike."
I would expressly invite David Olive (as lead of ICANN's Policy Development Support Team) to be part of this discussion as well. How do we make the work load reasonable if we want the volunteer, multistakeholder model to continue? Is it based on ICANN capacity or stakeholder capacity?
Best,
Kathy
On 2/26/2016 6:10 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
Dear all,
One regular event at ICANN meetings is that we get to meet the Board,
talk with them about and ask them whatever we want.
The Board would, however, like to know in advance what we're going
to ask them, so they could better prepare for it.
If you have suggestions for topics for our meeting with the Board in
Marrakech, please let me know as soon as possible (feel free to post
to the list or me directly, as you prefer).
Thank you,
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