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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org" target="_blank">anriette@apc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1 Arsène<br>
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On 24/07/2018 16:22, Arsène Tungali wrote:<br>
> I was worried and did not know that you would accept this, Stephanie.<br>
><br>
> I am very glad you did and I would like to thank you for that.<br>
><br>
> I look forward to the elections and I wish you (and anyone else who<br>
> will be applying) the best of luck and i look forward to working with<br>
> the new Chair once elected.<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Arsene<br>
><br>
> 2018-07-24 16:04 UTC+02:00, Stephanie Perrin<br>
> <<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca">stephanie.perrin@mail.<wbr>utoronto.ca</a>>:<br>
>> Hi Everyone,<br>
>><br>
>> First, a great big thank you to Robin for nominating me for this<br>
>> position, and to all the kind folks who have supported that nomination!<br>
>> I have been holding back on accepting until I saw the list of the EPDP<br>
>> team, because I feel that my first duty was to make sure we did not<br>
>> falter on the effort to get privacy fixed in the WHOIS. Now that the<br>
>> team has been announced, I can say with great confidence that we have a<br>
>> terrific group there, and that while there will be lots of work, we can<br>
>> count on each other to share the load. Thanks to everybody who came<br>
>> forward to apply for that group, and to the many who have offered to<br>
>> support in our strategic backroom and wiki presence. This is a great<br>
>> opportunity to learn, for those who are relatively new to NCSG, and want<br>
>> to understand policy development and what we are usually up against in<br>
>> our struggles here at ICANN.<br>
>><br>
>> I am honoured by the nomination for NCSG Chair, and will happily accept<br>
>> it. This is a big job; I have been watching Farzi, Tapani, Rafik and<br>
>> Robin doing this job since I arrived at ICANN 5 years ago, and I am<br>
>> impressed at the dedication that they have shown, and the improvements<br>
>> to our processes, procedures, and membership outreach. When I say I am<br>
>> standing on the shoulders of giants I am not kidding, I would not be<br>
>> submitting my candidacy for this position if there had not been a whole<br>
>> lot of work done to make the job easier and more organized, over the<br>
>> past five or six years. Joan and Renata have done a terrific job in<br>
>> the past year in building our relationships within the constituencies<br>
>> and in membership outreach, and I know there is a strong desire on the<br>
>> part of both constituencies and leadership to work together effectively<br>
>> for the common good. There is still a lot of work to do, and I will<br>
>> outline some of my ideas for what I think ought to be our priorities<br>
>> when I send my candidate statement, but I wanted to get this acceptance<br>
>> of the nomination out there today, and thank you all for the opportunity<br>
>> to run in this election.<br>
>><br>
>> Stephanie Perrin<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 2018-07-18 16:54, Robin Gross wrote:<br>
>>> Friends,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I’d like to nominate *Stephanie Perrin* for the next NCSG Chair.<br>
>>> Stephanie has represented NCSG on the GNSO Council for the last four<br>
>>> years and has fought tirelessly to defend Internet users’ privacy<br>
>>> rights in the policy development process. She’s been a major<br>
>>> game-changer for privacy discussions at ICANN since she joined NCSG,<br>
>>> and before that she had a long and distinguished career defending<br>
>>> online privacy rights in the Canadian government and elsewhere. I<br>
>>> first met Stephanie in 2001 when she was awarded the "Pioneer Award"<br>
>>> from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for her work advancing<br>
>>> Internet privacy rights, so she’s been dedicated to this cause for a<br>
>>> long time.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Stephanie will be term-limited out of her current seat on the GNSO<br>
>>> Council in this election, so we’d be very fortunate for her to<br>
>>> transition into the role of NCSG Chair this fall and continue to<br>
>>> represent us in that new capacity.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thank you,<br>
>>> Robin<br>
><br>
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