[NCSG-PC] GNSO Vice-Chair - NCPH decision - Peter

[Kathy Kleiman]

Dear Bruna and Friends,

I think we have an excellent candidate for Vice Chair, and he brings 
deep experience and expertise.Peter Akinremi has been our Council Vice 
Chair for a year, deeply involved in helping create agendas, shaping the 
annual Strategic Planning Session, and working with Council leadership 
and staff to prioritize and plan.

As you know, the UDRP ahead and I am deeply worried. With the UDRP on 
the agenda, we need Peter’s experience and expertise; his knowledge of 
Council and the UDRP are invaluable right now.As you might know, Peter 
is part of our informal UDRP Data Team and he reviewed dozens of UDRP 
decisions – by eye not AI – and he knows first-hand the imbalances, 
problems and concerns in these UDRP decisions for noncommercial and 
Global South registrants.

With a year of experience on Council, Peter is the right person to 
continue as Vice Chair, and even the CSG is likely to agree.They want 
someone who “knows the ropes” and has experience and expertise on 
Council, and Peter brings it. They also know he is fair and expert, and 
that is good for the entire Non-Contracted Party House.

I should add that Peter’s experience in another area impresses me– he is 
working on his PhD and writing his dissertation on critical Internet 
infrastructure and cyber resilience at the University of Cincinnati.

Samantha is good, as are the entire Verisign team, yet they do think 
hard about their registrants in the .COM community./It would be 
imbalanced for Sam and Vivek to lead together. /This year is far too 
important.Peter brings deep expertise and experience on Council and 
ICANN/Internet policies – he is a critical NCSG leader at a critical 
moment in time.

I support Peter continuing as Vice Chair for the next year.

Best regards,

Kathy


On 10/22/2026 1:39 AM, Bruna Martins dos Santos via NCSG-PC wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to type that the next GNSO council meeting is 12th of 
> November !
>
> On that note, I kindly ask that the interested folks reply to this 
> email asap
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos 
> <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi, everyone,
>
>     Hope this email finds everyone well.
>
>     We need to have an NCPH appointed vice-chair by the next council
>     Meeting, on xx/xx/xx.
>
>     The first part of the process is for us to figure out who's going
>     to be our candidate. For this matter, I ask all councilors
>     interested in doing it, to express their interest here until
>     tomorrow, October 23rd.
>
>     After that we will proceed w/ the conversation w/ CSG. At the
>     moment they want Vivek to be Vice-Chair and he can be a NCPH
>     candidate if we don't have a name and/or agree. On this issue, I
>     would also appreciate if all councilors replied to this email
>     informing whether they would be OK w/ Vivek in case we don't have
>     a candidate.
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Bruna and Rafik
>
>
>
> -- 
> */Bruna Martins dos Santos
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>
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