Summary Comments on the Discussion Concerning consolidating NCSG, NCUC and NPOC

[Benjamin Akinmoyeje]

Dear Prof,
Thank you for the summary and for identifying the pain points. I do not
have objections with the conclusions, I hope the community put all of you
have raised into consideration as we plan forward.

Kind regards,
Benjamin

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 7:37 PM Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Sam,
>
> Thanks for this summary and thanks to Raphael for his more formal minutes.
>
> I regret that I was unable to attend this meeting, it overlapped with a
> day job meeting as we are gearing up for the beginning of the university
> semester here and covid-19 has created a lot of extra work. If we have
> another meeting I would appreciate having a bit more warning, might be able
> to juggle the schedule.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> MM
>
>
>
> *From:* NCSG-Discuss <NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> *On Behalf Of *Tomslin
> Samme-Nlar
> *Sent:* Friday, August 7, 2020 9:59 PM
> *To:* NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: Summary Comments on the Discussion Concerning
> consolidating NCSG, NCUC and NPOC
>
>
>
> Thank you Sam. Well summarised.
>
>
>
> Like you mentioned in your summary, we must continue to work on improving
> the Troika. Taking into consideration all the good points that have been
> raised during the life of your post and discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Tomslin
>
>
>
>
> On Fri., 7 Aug. 2020, 00:29 Sam Lanfranco, <lanfran at yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> NCSG, NCUC & NPOC Colleagues,
>
> I would like to express my thanks for the discussion that followed my
> deliberately provocative posting on possible futures for those of us
> working in the troika. This is my summary statement for now.
>
> The discussion was rich and insightful with some deep-felt positions
> agreeing that we could restructure to do better. Collectively we are
> administratively top heavy. We are persistently short of volunteers to
> cover our role in the core work of ICANN (policy development, document
> review, etc.). Our recruitment of active and engaged membership has been
> wanting.
>
> Given the size of the global civil society and non-profit sectors our
> recruitment efforts, independently and working with ICANN, have been of
> weak success. This is as serious an issue at two levels. One is the
> shortage of engaged members for the core work of ICANN. The other is the
> weight of our voice within ICANN.
>
> In this discussion one colleague said that NPOC is the “Voice of the
> non-profit sector”. No. NPOC cannot claim that any more than NCUC can claim
> that it is the voice of non-commercial users.  We are hearty bands of
> volunteers who, to the best of our ability, voice the concerns of
> non-commercial users and the non-profit sector. We have no formal
> accountability and base our efforts on our best intentions. For example, my
> NPOC position comes from the Canadian Society for International Health
> (CSIH) NPOC membership. CSIH was once concerned about abuse around health
> gTLDs. They are no longer concerned, I am no longer formally accountable,
> and I should shift to individual NCSG membership.
>
> ICANN needs us as a legitimate part of its multistakeholder model. While
> we are representatives FROM our constituencies, without formal
> accountability we are not representatives OF our constituencies.
>
> The good work of those who volunteer for policy development, elected
> positions, and other ICANN tasks bolster mainly individual reputations and
> standings within ICANN. The weight of the troika’s voice within ICANN, as
> the troika, rests on the breadth and depth of our membership, and we are
> weak there.
>
> I would hope that as part of our work agenda for 2020-2021 we have an
> ongoing discussion and look at structural changes that increase member
> engagement in ICANN work, reduce troika administrative work, and enhance
> the attractiveness of membership from our global constituencies.
>
> Lastly, I would like to than Milton and others for correcting me when I
> got parts of the early organizational history wrong.
>
> Sam Lanfranco
>
>
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