We don=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=have a representative on PIR Advisory Council

[farzaneh badii]

Thanks Jean for your question.

Here is the people behind PIR web page:
https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/


Farzaneh


On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 7:57 AM Jean F. Quéralt <
JFQueralt at theiofoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi Farzaneh.
>
> Thx for the update.
>
> Do we have an org chart of the current PIR?
>
> Thx.
>
> Jean F. Queralt
> Founder & CEO - The IO Foundation <http://www.TheIOFoundation.org>
> Book a meeting <http://TIOF.Click/BookJFQ> (30 minutes)
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 20:51, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> It is unfortunate but PIR decided not to appoint any of the candidates we
>> put forward as NCSG to the Advisory Council. PIR over time made our role
>> weaker in its governance. Something our leaders should really pay attention
>> to. I raised concern and IGP wrote a blog about it. But if we don’t pay
>> attention, we will see our role more and more diminished in this space.
>>
>> IGP blog:
>> Dot ORG Snubs Noncommercials
>>
>> The Public Interest Registry, which was awarded the .ORG domain based on
>> promises that it would support noncommercial participants in the ICANN
>> process
>> <https://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/org/applications/isoc/section7.html>,
>> has progressively backed away from supporting the official noncommercial
>> constituencies in ICANN. It took the latest step recently, refusing to
>> appoint any representatives nominated by the Noncommercial Stakeholders
>> Group <https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg>(NCSG)
>> to its Advisory Board. PIR’s Advisory Board has no real power and is
>> largely honorary anyway, but it originally set aside a dedicated slot on
>> the AC for NCUC. That precedent just ended. PIR justifies this by claiming
>> that it chose AC members based on their “quality” not on who they
>> represent. But this is exactly the problem: PIR’s council is just a bunch
>> of people the PIR board likes and feels comfortable with, they are not
>> independent representatives of .ORG users who are involved in the ICANN
>> process. PIR has turned its appointment process into a beauty contest and
>> its Advisory Council into a unilaterally-bestowed privilege that allows it
>> to filter out anyone who might talk back.
>>
>> --
>> Farzaneh
>>
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