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[Remmy Nweke]

Thanks Farz for bringing this up here.
I think that like the malady at PIR as reported by the IGP is also
crippling the selection process in NCSG because such lacks due diligence
rather than political appointment by a few folks over time resulting the
degeneration of the council.
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 1:51 PM 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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