Election of Board seat 14: Preliminary discussion with current incumbent on Friday January31st

[Kathy Kleiman]

I tried to post this earlier, but I don't think it went up:

I will not be able to join the discussion, but I would like to know why 
Matthew has been unable to talk with us about the .ORG matter. In a 
world without transparency, it is critical that ICANN Board members open 
up lines of communication and encourage the ICANN Board and ICANN Org to 
a) talk more with the Community, b) provide the Community with more 
information. Other Board members have been responsive to requests for 
information.

I would like to know what Mr. Shears has done and will do to ensure that 
the needs and concerns of the NCSG, for the .ORG Community which 
includes our members, will be taken seriously and responded to by the 
Board.  As written in our December 9 letter: *"Our critical requests to 
the ICANN board are these:*

*"A. ICANN has an obligation to enter into negotiations with Ethos 
Capital to ensure that its operation of the ORG domain conforms to 
criteria upon which the original award of ORG was contingent (we discuss 
those criteria below); *
*B. ICANN in turn should make decisions about the future of the ORG TLD 
only after consulting with impacted registrants and the global 
non-commercial Internet community(we outline our concerns below); and*
*C. Modifications to the Registry Agreement will be required in order to 
allay our concerns and mitigate negative impact on registrants*"

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ncsg-to-botterman-09dec19-en.pdf

Kathy


On 1/28/2020 6:49 PM, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
> Members may be aware that we have agreed election procedures for Board
> seat 14 with our colleagues in the Non-contracted party house.  Those
> procedures are now part of the GNSO operating procedures (see link
> below).  Matthew Shears is the current incumbent of Board seat 14, and
> his term expires at the Annual General meeting in October 2020.  He is
> interested in running again for another term.  We are commencing
> discussions with our colleagues in the BC, IPC, and ISPC, and we have
> asked Matthew Shears to have a preliminary discussion with our own
> members this Friday, January 31st, at 13:00 UTC.  I have asked Maryam
> Bakoshi to arrange for the zoom room and Ozan Sahin will be handling the
> call for us.  I will ask her to share the zoom room coordinates when we
> get this set up.
>
> Please join us for a discussion with Matthew!  It is quite a challenge
> to represent both commercial and non-commercial interests at ICANN, and
> finding candidates with the right skill set is also challenging.  Bring
> your questions about the role to the meeting on Friday.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> NCSG Chair
>
> https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-24oct19-en.pdf
> <https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-24oct19-en.pdf>
>
-- 
Kathy Kleiman
President, Domain Name Rights Coalition

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