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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Hi Everyone, <br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">First, a great big
thank you to Robin for nominating me for this position, and to
all the kind folks who have supported that nomination! I have
been holding back on accepting until I saw the list of the
EPDP team, because I feel that my first duty was to make sure
we did not falter on the effort to get privacy fixed in the
WHOIS. Now that the team has been announced, I can say with
great confidence that we have a terrific group there, and that
while there will be lots of work, we can count on each other
to share the load. Thanks to everybody who came forward to
apply for that group, and to the many who have offered to
support in our strategic backroom and wiki presence. This is
a great opportunity to learn, for those who are relatively new
to NCSG, and want to understand policy development and what we
are usually up against in our struggles here at ICANN.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I am honoured by the
nomination for NCSG Chair, and will happily accept it. This
is a big job; I have been watching Farzi, Tapani, Rafik and
Robin doing this job since I arrived at ICANN 5 years ago, and
I am impressed at the dedication that they have shown, and the
improvements to our processes, procedures, and membership
outreach. When I say I am standing on the shoulders of giants
I am not kidding, I would not be submitting my candidacy for
this position if there had not been a whole lot of work done
to make the job easier and more organized, over the past five
or six years. Joan and Renata have done a terrific job in
the past year in building our relationships within the
constituencies and in membership outreach, and I know there is
a strong desire on the part of both constituencies and
leadership to work together effectively for the common good.
There is still a lot of work to do, and I will outline some of
my ideas for what I think ought to be our priorities when I
send my candidate statement, but I wanted to get this
acceptance of the nomination out there today, and thank you
all for the opportunity to run in this election.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-07-18 16:54, Robin Gross wrote:<br>
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<div class="">Friends,</div>
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<div class="">I’d like to nominate <b class="">Stephanie Perrin</b> for
the next NCSG Chair. Stephanie has represented NCSG on the GNSO
Council for the last four years and has fought tirelessly to
defend Internet users’ privacy rights in the policy development
process. She’s been a major game-changer for privacy
discussions at ICANN since she joined NCSG, and before that she
had a long and distinguished career defending online privacy
rights in the Canadian government and elsewhere. I first met
Stephanie in 2001 when she was awarded the "Pioneer Award" from
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for her work advancing
Internet privacy rights, so she’s been dedicated to this cause
for a long time.</div>
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<div class="">Stephanie will be term-limited out of her current
seat on the GNSO Council in this election, so we’d be very
fortunate for her to transition into the role of NCSG Chair this
fall and continue to represent us in that new capacity.</div>
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<div class="">Thank you,</div>
<div class="">Robin</div>
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