<div dir="auto">Thanks Joan for your reply.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Indeed the role of Observer would preserve NCSG EC independence, would be just for constituency to respond in extraordinary cases.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I take it the reporting of all leadership should be a constant practice.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However we need a safeguard to observe the database when a member has participated in outreach but could not join due to mistakes in his/her communication, people who reapply etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm aware this is a long shot but just landing it here for the record.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Renata</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Em seg, 9 de jul de 2018 14:25, Joan Kerr <<a href="mailto:joankerr@fbsc.org">joankerr@fbsc.org</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi Renata,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I think a summary of the applicants who were not approved is fine as well. I have an applicant who was not approved and does not know why. I think that observing is good, however, information for the Chair to follow up would suffice as well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Regards,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:59 PM Renata Aquino Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:raquino@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">raquino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi <br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, on the black box procedure of membership approval, a request I have made a while ago to NCSG Chair is to have NCUC and NPOC Chairs as observers of the membership database.</div><div>That could help us know how membership process is going when normally the Constituencies EC is the one doing the outreach and knows who are the members applying better than the NCSG EC rep.</div><div>In order to know if one prospective member applied, today we have to ask NCSG EC rep and they have other work to do, may be abducted by aliens or have any other hinderance that prevents them from reporting timely.</div><div>Another issue is that their sending data to us would constitute as data smuggling and I believe that would cause a real privacy nightmare.</div><div>Tracy Kadesa, for instance, just tweeted out asking about her application in despair. Others post on Facebook.<br></div><div>Of course we do count on Maryam, ICANN Staff, to confirm status as well.</div><div>But I this fencing via ICANN Staff to membership database is the opposite of accountability to me and while we understand NCSG is the supreme decider of all things, we just want a peek to oversee behind our iron umbrella organization.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Renata<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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