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<p>Hi Farzi,</p>
<p>I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the points that
you made and our priorities for the next year (and probably far
beyond). Tx for your leadership!</p>
<p>Best, Kathy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2017 1:50 PM, farzaneh badii
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meeting with NomCom as the NCSG chair. </div>
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Committee selects 8 members of ICANN board + some key
positions at ICANN, namely to NomCom Appointees to GNSO
Council. Here you can read more about it. <a
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I didn't know what
they were going to ask so I did not consult with you about
the meeting. The gist of it was that they wanted to get to
know us as a stakeholder group better and wanted to
understand what our values are.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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the points I made:</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">They asked what we
are looking for in a leader. I said we need transparent
communication, openness, we need them to be committed and
have a strong tie with the community and be passionate. </div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">They also asked
what we think our priorities for the next year will be.
This is the list some of the issues that I said are
important for me personally and I think they are on our
many of our members agenda too, but we can discuss later :</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1. "privacy
protection"</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2. "rights
protection mechanism and preventing trademark overreach"</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">3. "Clarifying and
narrowing the definition of DNS abuse"</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">4. "Making sure the
work stream 2 recommendations are implemented" (go here
for the recommendations:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://community.icann.org/display/WEIA/WS2+-+Enhancing+ICANN+Accountability+Home"
target="_blank"> https://community.icann.org/display/WEIA/WS2+-+Enhancing+ICANN+Accountability+Home</a></div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">5. "preventing
governmental and trademark overreach in generic domain
name policy"<br>
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what do we want the leaders advocate for (it was not
framed exactly like that, nomcom is an independent
committee and cannot just choose an advocate based on
what we say but they wanted to know what we care about)</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I said, for GNSO
positions I believe it should be someone who is active at
GNSO preferably and not an outsider, does not have
governmental ties and truly cares about the GNSO and its
policies. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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from nomcom told me that it is advisable to create a
profile about our ideal candidates so that nomcom
understands our needs.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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also want to be in touch so I said we could invite them to
NCSG meeting in PR. </div>
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