<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Elsa and all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please do check page #37 of the Feasibility Assessment and Initial Implementation Plan</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/OR/Implementation+Planning+Phase?preview=/90767583/102137872/NomCom2ReviewFAIIP.pdf">https://community.icann.org/display/OR/Implementation+Planning+Phase?preview=/90767583/102137872/NomCom2ReviewFAIIP.pdf</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Recommendation #10 :</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;text-align:center;white-space:pre"><b>Representation on the NomCom should be re‐balanced immediately </b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;text-align:center;white-space:pre"><b>and then be reviewed every five years.</b> </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;text-align:center;white-space:pre"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left">This is an important recommendation that NCSG need to study the current Nomcom formation and strategies accordingly.Great to see Raoul's move for NPOC at the ombudsman. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left">The GAC seat at the NomCom never been filled, even there is GAC committee working on it. It was discussed at the level of IPT.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left">Nadira</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left"><br></div></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 10:10 PM Elsa S <<a href="mailto:elsa.saade@gmail.com">elsa.saade@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Farzaneh,</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you very much for the efforts on this. Nomcom should definitely have fundamental changes to reflect all stakeholders in this community (minority or majority, we’re all stakeholders). I personally witnessed the amount of meetings held with Nomcom and the efforts you and other NCSG members put into this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’d be happy to help keeping the ball rolling even if, as u said, the ball is in their court now. So please don’t hesitate to get in touch if any support is needed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also looking forward to seeing how the NPOC issue might turn out. Interesting that you went through the ombudsman Raoul.. keep us posted?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elsa</div><div dir="auto">—</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 8:16 AM Raoul Plommer <<a href="mailto:plommer@gmail.com" target="_blank">plommer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I took the missing NPOC seat in NomCom to the Ombudsman and he thinks it's an obvious fairness issue. I'm very much looking forward to, how the case has progressed by Kobe.</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>-Raoul</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-1697758075630337689m_3242557401458388742gmail_attr">On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 17:49, Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Farzaneh,</div><div dir="auto">I know that the NCSG did participate but as you've written it is the minority voice that vanishes within the majority.</div><div dir="auto">What my message was about how to make the minority vote have an impact could be done in different ways. </div><div dir="auto">That is why I've written there is a need to strategize such inputs at the different stages. </div><div dir="auto">Hoping I got my point across this time.</div><div dir="auto">Nadira<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 17:38 farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi Nadira</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thank you. Sorry I didn't mean to support the notion that it is up to community to fix it. Obviously, it is not. When unfairness is towards a small minority, obviously the larger community won't fix it. This is actually an issue that I paid direct attention to and made sure with the help of others we provided comments not to later on be told you did not participate hence did nothing changed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We took surveys, submitted all the public comments we could, had separate meetings with the chair. It was not fixed. And it was not because not because we didn't participate. It is because ICANN's structure is fundamentally unfair. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-1697758075630337689m_3242557401458388742gmail-m_1893411103752996034m_-7433278206676607742gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-1697758075630337689m_3242557401458388742gmail-m_1893411103752996034m_-7433278206676607742gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 2:29 AM Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear Farzaneh and all,<div dir="auto">I was a member on the NomCom review party and continued on to the feasibility community that produced the last report.</div><div dir="auto">On my personal capacity, I can only reiterate what you highlight on the last paragraph, that it is up to the community to fix it. Unfortunately, the community input through out the process starting from the interviews, survey, public comments, review sessions during ICANN meetings need to have a stronger quantity and quality contributions to make the changes possible. For an example during the review committee on ICANN meeting less than handfull were presence in such session, that is why the chairs did a road show during the following ICANN meeting.</div><div dir="auto">There is a need to strategize the community input to have a stronger impact.</div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Nadira</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 06:25 farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear NCSG </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I would like to update you on NomCom review. as you know we are underrepresented on NomCom and hope that could be fixed with NomCom review.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">When I was the NCSG chair, we put forward the concerns we had about the noncommercial under-representation at NomCom ( we also have an effective member of IPT) . They told us within 6 months they are going to have the implementation plan team and then going to provide remedies for imbalance. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">But, as it turns out their remedies have placebo effects. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1. Of course, they support fixing under representation of ccertain groups oon NomCom but: They have to change the bylaws to give us the equal rights (only us, no one else in this situation) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2. Changes will happen in less than 20 months. well I guess that is better than never.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">3.Then we have:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"Once the implementation team agrees how to ‘rebalance’ the NomCom, all bodies that appoint members to the NomCom need to agree before the changes can be implemented. "<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">good luck to us if ALL bodies have to "agree" we will never get a balanced representation. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I thank everyone who fought for this. G Sadowsky, a then ICANN board said that NCSG underrepresentation could be fixed but depended on the community to fix it and not the Board. WEll. We did all we could to be effective during the review. Ball is in their court. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Source: <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/nomcom2-ipt-review-faiip-14dec18-en.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpRMFpqWTJNVGRtWW1FMCIsInQiOiI1eXBcL1VzSGNKXC9DR3M1c0FDWUhCUktDbUZxN0h1XC9qVWNWc2ZXcm5oRHlwS1c1UEFQWEJMNU9EWVd1YkhXbkpHMkM0aDN3VDlOQnJac05xY2t5ZHFWbTB0SklTXC9oaDJqK1lab2g1N0ZjbU16XC9qczZSU1Q1MGtOY2dERXBwajM3In0%3D" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/nomcom2-ipt-review-faiip-14dec18-en.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpRMFpqWTJNVGRtWW1FMCIsInQiOiI1eXBcL1VzSGNKXC9DR3M1c0FDWUhCUktDbUZxN0h1XC9qVWNWc2ZXcm5oRHlwS1c1UEFQWEJMNU9EWVd1YkhXbkpHMkM0aDN3VDlOQnJac05xY2t5ZHFWbTB0SklTXC9oaDJqK1lab2g1N0ZjbU16XC9qczZSU1Q1MGtOY2dERXBwajM3In0%3D </a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">p.39 </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-1697758075630337689m_3242557401458388742gmail-m_1893411103752996034m_-7433278206676607742gmail-m_643279970298361372m_-2826086301401268180m_-3735705455674639131m_-6281458259237736308gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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