<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Rafik</div><div dir="auto">Thanks for raising this quesion.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">___________________</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">REMMY NWEKE, </span><font size="1"><i>mNUJ, mNGE, mGOCOP, mnipr</i></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Lead Consulting Strategist - <a href="https://www.itrealms.com.ng/" target="_blank"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#ff0000">DigitalSENSE Africa</font></b></a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Group Executive Editor, <b><font color="#0000ff">IT</font><font color="#ff0000">REALMS</font> Media</b> group</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[<i>Multiple-award winning medium</i>]</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div>(<a href="http://www.itrealms.com.ng/" target="_blank">ITREALMS</a>, <a href="http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng/businessnews" target="_blank">DigitalSENSE Business Magazine</a>; <a href="http://www.naijaagronet.com.ng/" target="_blank">NaijaAgroNet</a>)</div><div>No. 36 Afariogun Street, Oshodi-Lagos, Nigeria<br>M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, </div><div>T: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms" target="_blank">@ITRealms</a> @DigitalSENSEng<div><a href="https://www.itrealms.com.ng/" target="_blank">2025 <b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#ff0000">Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on IG4D</font></b>, Thursday June 1</a>9<br></div><div><a href="https://www.itrealms.com.ng/" target="_blank">2025 <b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#0000ff">IT</font><font color="#ff0000">REALMS</font></b> e-Waste Dialogue, Thursday November 20</a></div><div><a href="http://welcomecentrehotels.com/" target="_blank">@Welcome Center Hotels, Int'l Airport Road, Lagos-Nigeria</a><br></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Former Vice President, African Civil Society on Information Society (ACSIS)</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">______________________________________________________________</span><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">*Confidentiality Notice:* The information in this document and attachments <br>are confidential and may also be privileged information. It is intended <br>only for the use of the named recipient. Remmy Nweke does not accept legal <br>responsibility for the contents of this e-mail. If you are not the intended <br>recipient, please notify me immediately, then delete this document and do <br>not disclose the contents of this document to any other person, nor make <br>any copies. Violators may face court persecution.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 7 Oct 2026, 14:37 Kathy Kleiman, <<a href="mailto:00001e85639e37fc-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu">00001e85639e37fc-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p><<<span style="font-size:10pt">A small update was sent for
the question from the Board.</span></p>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;text-transform:none">The NCSG has
cited challenges with capacity for supporting policy
development in addition to the other community work such
as reviews and has expressed concerns about the amount of
concurrent work. What are the NCSG’s most significant
challenges in monitoring and deciding which work to
prioritize and focus resources? How can the Board assist
the NCSG to plan and position itself better to ensure it
is actively engaged on its priority policy topics for the
future? >></span></div>
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<div>Hi Rafik and All, </div>
<div>I think the third question is key:
"How can the Board assist the NCSG to plan and position itself
better to ensure it is actively engaged on its priority policy
topics for the future?"</div>
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<div>We have some great answers here. (1)
Data -- the Board could encourage ICANN Org to commission neutral
and independent data studies of upcoming policy issues and
considerations. That way there is a common base of information
for everyone to use in their analysis and assessments. History
shows this works well!</div>
<div>(2) Full and comprehensive reviews by
Staff in preparation for upcoming Policy reviews. We often feel
that the summaries written for the GNSO Council are one-sided,
with other stakeholders' concerns factored in heavily, but not
NCSG. We also see ICANN Org summaries for the GNSO
Council/Community overlooking key parts of history. For example,
ICANN has issued calls for comment on the UDRP since 2001 -- and
regularly since then. Yet, the most recent ICANN UDRP summaries
contained only the most recent set of comments, not the whole
history of comments, critiques and studies (including academic
studies from Professor Milton Mueller and Michael Geist) shared
with ICANN over time -- although the UDRP has not changed
substantively since 1999. </div>
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<div>It would help us if we did not have to
independently gather these studies, history and data. It
sometimes feels we have to do much more work, gather much more
data, write more papers to gather the type of information that
ICANN Org seems to regularly collect, collate and share for other
stakeholders in its summaries. It would help if that were not the
case. </div>
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<div>Best, Kathy</div>
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<div>On 10/7/2026 12:13 AM, Rafik Dammak
wrote:<br>
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<div>hi all,</div>
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<div>a reminder that we should submit the questions by 9th
October. Please share your input.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Rafik</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 2 oct. 2026 à 23:50,
Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>>
a écrit :<br>
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<div>Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. We have
one week to finalize our questions and submit them.
<div dir="auto"><br>
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<div dir="auto">Best,</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
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<div dir="auto">Rafik</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2026,
06:27 Andrea Glandon <<a href="mailto:andrea.glandon@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">andrea.glandon@icann.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Hello all, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">A small update was
sent for the question from the Board.</span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span style="font-size:10pt;text-transform:none">The
NCSG has cited challenges with capacity for
supporting policy development in addition to the
other community work such as reviews and has
expressed concerns about the amount of
concurrent work. What are the NCSG’s most
significant challenges in monitoring and
deciding which work to prioritize and focus
resources? How can the Board assist the NCSG to
plan and position itself better to ensure it is
actively engaged on its priority policy topics
for the future? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Thanks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Andrea Glandon</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
<span style="font-size:10pt">Policy Operations
Specialist</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)</span></div>
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<b>From: </b>NCSG-Discuss <<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>>
on behalf of Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:00001e06d4af460b-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">00001e06d4af460b-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at
03:42<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>
<<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Ext] [ICANN87] Board's
questions to NCSG<br>
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<div class="gmail_signature" style="direction:ltr">Hi everyone,</div>
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As usual during the ICANN meeting, we will
have interaction with the ICANN board during
a joint meeting in ICANN87. The board sent
us this question below:</div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<b>The NCSG has cited challenges with
capacity for supporting policy development
and has expressed concerns about the
amount of concurrent work. What are the
NCSG’s most significant challenges in
monitoring and deciding how to support
policy development work? How can the Board
assist the NCSG to plan and position
itself better to ensure it is actively
engaged on its priority policy topics for
the future? </b></div>
</div>
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<p style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
board is also asking us if we
have any questions for them to
be addressed during the meeting
and we should submit by 9th
October.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please
share your ideas and comments,
and we will
summarize/consolidate them.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best
regards,</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none">Rafik</p>
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<pre cols="72">--
Kathy Kleiman
Past President, Domain Name Rights Coalition</pre>
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