<html><head></head><body>Hi Sam,<div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Would you mind elaborating on your proposal a little more? If you have specific issues you’d like to raise with the ICANN Board, what are they? In other words, what is the objective in raising the topic with them?</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">To be clear, I’m not opposed to this being a topic of discussion during our meeting with the Board, or anything, but if we raise any topic (this or others) at all, I’d think it’d be sensible to have specific questions, which when asked would provide clarity on issues or Board/Org views we’re having trouble divining ourselves. What I don’t think this should be is an open-ended question we pose to them as “what lessons have been learned”, and then have the little time we have with them be used up by them sharing anecdotal views, which will likely be irrelevant to us.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">I’m also not clear on the issues with the process we need to raise either? Is it ICANN’s Registry Transition Process you believe to be mishandled, ISOC’s process to sell PIR, or something else possibly?</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">IMO, the Registry Transition Process is likely the issue we need to focus on the most (ISOC’s process to sell PIR is none of ICANN’s business), and we need to communicate to the Board once more that ICANN needs to recognize that as part of that process, there is a need to consult with a relevant community representing civil society registrants of .org domain names.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Additionally, we might want to bring up where we might feel that the Board’s response to the NCSG letter on the topic might have been underwhelming.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Both of these need to be fleshed out a little more, but in general, we need to develop our discussion points with a little more granularity than “what lessons have been learned”.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">I hope this helps.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Amr<br class=""/><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 5, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Sam Lanfranco <<a href="mailto:lanfran@YORKU.CA" class="">lanfran@YORKU.CA</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div class="">
<div class=""><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class=""><div class="">I would like to suggest that the following topic be considered for a discussion with the ICANN Board.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><i class="">What lessons have been learned by stakeholders and the Board in the matter of the proposed sale of PIR and the .org registry?</i></li></ul><div class="">I pose the question because I believe that how the process has been handled constitutes a real threat to ICANN's reputation, and viability, as a multistakeholder organization. <br class=""/></div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Sam Lanfranco (NPOC)<br class=""/></div></div></font></div>
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