2018 NCSG Election Process and list of Candidates

Wed Aug 1 15:37:30 EEST 2018

Please find below my candidate statement.  I will send the word version 
to Maryam separately.

*Public Statement of Stephanie Perrin*

*Nominee for the NCSG Chair Position*

**

I am Stephanie Perrin, resident of Pakenham, in the Ottawa Valley, 
Ontario, Canada.I am honoured to be nominated for the position of Chair 
of the NCSG.I am a privacy and information policy consultant, retired 
from a 30 year career in the federal public service of Canada, where I 
worked for most of that time on privacy and information policy issues in 
the department responsible for telecommunications.I retired in 2013 and 
completed my doctorate in Information studies at the Faculty of 
Information, University of Toronto, Toronto Canada in 2018.My 
dissertation was on the contention between ICANN and the data 
commissioners of the world, over the WHOIS directory.I have been engaged 
with civil society for many years, and am on the Advisory Board of the 
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

I was recruited to come and volunteer as a privacy expert on the Experts 
Working Group on a new directory service for gTLD registration data by 
Kathy Kleiman of NCUC in 2013, and the privacy struggle here was so 
interesting that I became hooked.The committee I was on worked very hard 
for a year and a half, and I joined the NCSG in 2014 and ran 
successfully for the GNSO Council shortly thereafter.(I also changed the 
topic of my dissertation to the WHOIS struggle.)I have worked in a great 
many policy development processes since then, including the WHOIS 
conflicts with law implementation advisory group, the cross community 
working group on policy and implementation, the privacy/proxy services 
working group, and the RDS PDP which has worked strenuously for two 
years on the WHOIS policy and is now suspended.

I don’t believe that I have any conflicts of interest at the moment.I am 
not actively seeking business in my consulting practice, and will avoid 
any potential work which might conflict with NCSG and ICANN.  I am 
working with my University on a research project on the utility of 
standards in managing third party access to personal registration data, 
which of course is central to the WHOIS struggle, but I have no economic 
or professional interest in the results of that research. I believe that 
I have been very active since arriving at ICANN, and have the necessary 
background in its policies and procedures to play a useful role as the 
Chair.As an executive in a large government, I have had the benefit of 
quite a bit of training in administrative procedures, finance, metrics 
and program evaluation, human resources management, and in risk 
management.I hope some of that background can be useful to our 
organization, and it helps me analyze some of the puzzles we face at 
ICANN.Since I worked in the Department of Communications for most of my 
career, and was working closely with US and European counterparts during 
the formation of ICANN, I am quite familiar with its history, and the 
policy driving its creation.

I have observed the hard work of previous Chairs of NCSG, and of its two 
constituencies, since I arrived at ICANN.I am grateful that a lot of 
terrific work has been done recently, in stabilizing our Charter and 
some of our policies.I would like to see further development in our 
ability to train and develop people to take positions of leadership, and 
to contribute meaningfully to the PDPs and cross community working 
groups.This is a difficult problem; we have had a burnout issue since I 
arrived at ICANN, and the job of participating appears not to be getting 
any easier, as there seems to be more to learn every year.I came to 
ICANN with quite a deep background, and it still took me over a year to 
figure out what is happening.We need to work with ICANN to help our 
members who are interested in participating, to develop skills and 
knowledge.I plan to make this a priority.

I also think that we spend more time than is necessary in fractious 
debate amongst ourselves and between our constituencies.We pride 
ourselves in speaking our minds, and I support that 100%, but we can 
stand to work on our diplomatic and empathic skills, in my opinion.Most 
of us have feelings, and when we volunteer our time we prefer to work 
with a feeling of respect and solidarity towards each other.I will try 
to speak plainly about what I think, but with respect to all.I will 
actively encourage others to do the same.You may call me Grandma if you 
like, that is what I am.(I believe that disclosure should cover my 
requirement in this candidate’s statement to tell you my gender.)

I believe in a consultative approach….first of all, I don’t plan to do 
all the work and that includes the thinking!I would like to know what 
the members think about issues. If you have ideas about those two 
priorities I just listed, the burnout and development problem, and the 
solidarity and respect issue, please let me know.My third priority will 
be to continue the excellent progress that has been made on our 
contributions to the GNSO policy process, and make sure that our 
approach to staffing the policy development processes and preparing 
comments is as good as it can be, and that we are doing what we can to 
support our folks who are doing the work.

A major part of the NCSG job is administrative, working closely with the 
leaders in NPOC and NCUC.I hope to build on the ongoing work of 
developing transparent procedures, and furthering the growing harmony 
between the constituencies.Our outreach efforts must be focused on 
having a meaningful presence, not just scooping up new members who 
remain bewildered about who we are and what we do.We need people to be 
engaged in the real work of ICANN, managing the DNS, which sadly can be 
boring and tedious at times, not to mention rather technical.We need to 
ask ourselves and our members why they stay members, or why they 
leave.There is a growing gulf between the handful of members who are 
actively working as volunteers in the policy processes, and those who 
may well be interested but have no time to take an active role.For those 
people, what do they need to stay engaged enough to read our email 
list?Do they care what the EPDP is?

I believe I have enough time to do this job.As indicated, I am retired 
and not particularly busy as a consultant.I am on the EPDP and the WHOIS 
Review team, both of which will demand some of my time.We have a great 
team on the EPDP, so I am confident that this will not take as much of 
my time as the previous RDS working group did.I propose to find a 
replacement for myself on the Auction Proceeds CCWG, and the PPSAI IRT, 
where I have been participating during the past year.I will of course be 
following the GNSO Council meetings closely, but without the homework I 
had to do as a Councilor.

Please do not hesitate to ask me any questions, or to contact me by email.

Stephanie Perrin

stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca

On 2018-07-31 16:19, Maryam Bakoshi wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Please find below the NCSG Election Process and list of Candidates.
>
> *ALL nominees are required to make a “Public Statement” by _Aug 02 
> 2359 UTC_, that includes:*
>
>
>    - Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment;
>    - Any conflicts of interest;
>    - Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular 
> position;
>    - Qualifications for the position;
>    - Statement of availability for the time the position requires; and
>    - Optionally, any other information that the candidate believes is 
> relevant.
>
>
>       Election Process
>
> This is an election with ballots.
>
> ·The vote will be open from *07 August - 20 August 2018* 23:59 UTC
>
> ·A ballot sent to each of the active members, which list will be 
> closed on 03 August 2018 23:59 UTC
>
> ·This ballot will come from tally at icann.org <mailto:tally at icann.org>.
>
> ·Voters will need to select 3 council candidates and 1 NCSG Chair 
> candidate.
>
> ·For the NCSG Chair, the candidate with the most votes will be elected.
>
> The selection will /not/ occur through acclamation.
>
> *2018 NCSG Election Candidates*
>
>
>         I.  2018 - 2019 NCSG Chair
>
> (1 to elect) 1-year term
>
> Nominated Candidate
>
> 	
>
> Nominated By
>
> 	
>
> Accepted Nomination
>
> 	
>
> Geographic Region
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> 	
>
> Robin Gross
>
> 	
>
> Yes
>
> 	
>
> NA
>
> Poncelet Ileleji
>
> 	
>
> Akinremi Peter Taiwo
>
> 	
>
> No
>
> 	
>
> AF
>
> David Cake
>
> 	
>
> James Gitau
>
> 	
>
> No
>
> 	
>
> AP
>
>
>
>         II.  2018 NCSG GNSO Representatives
>
> (3 to elect) each 2-year terms
>
> Nominated Candidate
>
> 	
>
> Nominated By
>
> 	
>
> Accepted Nomination
>
> 	
>
> Geographic Region
>
> Martin Silva Valent
>
> 	
>
> Arsene Tungali
>
> 	
>
> Yes
>
> 	
>
> LAC
>
> Raoul Plommer
>
> 	
>
> James Gitau
>
> 	
>
> No
>
> 	
>
> EU
>
> Rafik Dammak
>
> 	
>
> Ayden Ferdeline
>
> 	
>
> Yes
>
> 	
>
> AF
>
> Elsa Saade
>
> 	
>
> Tatiana Tropina
>
> 	
>
> Yes
>
> 	
>
> AP
>
> --
>
> Many thanks,
>
> **
>
> *Maryam Bakoshi* | SO/AC Collaboration Services Sr. Coordinator
>
> *ICANN* | Internet Corporation got Assigned Names and Numbers
>
> *S*: Maryam.bakoshi.icann | *T*: +44 7846 471777
>
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