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            <div><font>Thank you to everyone who has shared their perspective on this issue. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>In Marrakech, we communicated to the Board that the NCUC needs to build its capacity to absorb an increased, growing, and specialised workload. I am so pleased that our calls have been heard and we are being offered new resources to increase our participation in ICANN activities.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>If ICANN would like to provide the NCUC with on-going financial support so that we can periodically bring consultants of our own choosing on board to assist with our policy work, I have no objections. </font></div><div><font><br>What I am less comfortable with is the idea of delegating our agenda setting powers to Staff. If we allow Staff to 'position set' or to identify key areas of concern, we may loose sight of what is really at play. There way well be value in having Staff assistance in summarising documents or clarifying the history of an issue, though I am tempted to push back and to ask why this is not already happening in working groups? If the answer is, it is, but these summaries or histories contain biases - why do we expect a different outcome here?</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>We do need additional support and I am so very grateful that ICANN is trying to help us. But we need the right aid. Rather than rejecting this assistance outright, I would prefer that we agree to take part in the pilot programme but set our own parametres around what support we will accept and what support we find unsuitable. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>I would certainly feel more comfortable hiring an existing NCUC or NCSG member - someone whose values align with our own, who is trusted, and who is already on board with our ethos - to do this work. As we grow we need to accept that there is a place for compensated policy advisors to aid us in representing the needs of our 500+ members. But THAT is key — they have to represent us.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Ayden</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>P.S. 100 hours every four months sounds inadequate to me. I would like us to have 2 or 3 FTEs.</font></div><div>
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      On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 9:33 AM, Stephanie Perrin <span dir="ltr"> <a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a></span>
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          NCUC, Sana, I think your comments are very astute.  It is a
          central conundrum.</font></font></p>
    <p><font size="+2"><font face="Lucida Grande">Kind regards, Stephanie
          Perrin</font></font><br>
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    <div>On 2016-04-26 7:12, Sana Ali wrote:<br>
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      <div>I would like to respond to some of your comments
        with a few questions, without commenting on the greater issue of
        whether paid positions for doing NCUC work ought to be created. </div>
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      <div>You consider your work at the NCUC public service,
        and you are well respected for it. However, one of the chronic
        problems the NCUC has had, is its reliance on the same people,
        the “natives” as they are referred to, to do the bulk of the
        work (or paid civil society reps as you said). This is an
        outcome of a steep learning curve and heavy initial investment
        to understand the processes and ecosystem before being able to
        contribute effectively. Naturally, this scares many people
        away. </div>
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      <div>Something to consider, perhaps, is what makes the
        NCUC a valuable commitment and such a worthwhile investment for
        a complete newcomer whose aim is to perform “public service”? </div>
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      <div>It is rare that you will find an individual with no
        previous stake in ICANN, who is not looking to gain anything
        (i.e., experience in the form of what is essentially an unpaid
        internship, a stepping stone for a career change, a networking
        opportunity, a holiday, etc), and is willing to do the legwork
        to catch up on what is going on. Similarly, it will be rare to
        find someone who already has the expertise that makes the
        initial investment and learning curve less intimidating and also
        has no previous stake in ICANN. This is because in the grand
        scheme of things, neither of these people will think that the
        most effective way for them to perform a public service or make
        impact is by way of putting work into the NCUC. Not only in
        light of the large scale availability of public service
        opportunity outside of ICANN, but also in light of NCUC’s unique
        and unfortunately quite weak positioning within the ICANN
        ecosystem. If there is serious resistance to financially
        incentivizing people who might want to participate in NCUC work,
        then I think we definitely have to in some way address these two
        structural barriers that our community faces. To ignore them,
        while rejecting any kind of financial incentivizing, I’m afraid,
        would only serve to hold us back against some very strong (and
        well-financed) opponents. I question the value of championing
        purity over purpose, while greatly admiring yours (purity, that
        is).</div>
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      <div>Having said that, hats off and much respect to the <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">four
          very tired, overworked volunteers.</font></div>
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      <div>Warm wishes,<br>
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            <div>Sana Ali</div>
            <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sana.ali2030@gmail.com">sana.ali2030@gmail.com</a></div>
            <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sanaali2030">https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sanaali2030</a></div>
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            <div>On Apr 26, 2016, at 12:24 AM, Edward Morris
              <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net">egmorris1@toast.net</a>>
              wrote:</div>
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                <div>
                  <div> <br>
                    Kathy,<br>
                     <br>
                    Last night four very tired, overworked volunteers
                    were on a call to develop a public comment on
                    ICANN’s FY17 Operating Plan and Budget. Five hundred
                    NCSG members were not on this call. In my view the
                    solution to our staffing problem is not to turn
                    policy research and development over to ICANN but
                    rather to try to make this group work as it should
                    by involving more of our members in policy work.<br>
                     <br>
                    Let’s take a look at this program. ICANN proposes
                    helping the NCUC  “with support for the research,
                    development, collaboration, drafting and editing of
                    documents for submission within the policy
                    development processes of ICANN”. By support they
                    mean having a staffer research, write and direct
                    policy calls.  <br>
                     <br>
                    Who is this staffer? Leading experts in the fields
                    we deal with? No. ICANN proposes giving us support
                    by staffers that fit this description:  “a Master or
                    Ph.D student, or recent graduates in one of the
                    following areas would be most preferred: computer
                    security, computer science, information science,
                    engineering and public policy”.<br>
                     <br>
                    Let me get this straight: members of the NCUC who
                    are students, professors or academics in these
                    fields are still expected to donate their time for
                    free doing policy at ICANN while we have young
                    people in or just out of school getting paid to do
                    roughly the same work?<br>
                     <br>
                    It gets better. As David Olive writes: “We would
                    also welcome your input on any specific individuals
                    you might recommend to serve in a test support role
                    for the community. ICANN procurement principles
                    would prevent someone from the same community
                    helping out within that community, but if you are
                    aware of any skilled writers and researchers who are
                    interested in a temporary assignment, please let me
                    know.”.<br>
                     <br>
                    So anyone in the NCUC, any of our many Masters or
                    PhD students currently donating your time: Let David
                    know you want to get paid for your work in ICANN.
                    Sure, you’ll have to work for another constituency
                    or stakeholder group but at least you’ll get paid.
                    Who cares about your values or personal beliefs?<br>
                     <br>
                    I consider my work here to be public service. It
                    does not and will never appear on my resume. Others
                    are here as representatives of their civil society
                    organization. They do get paid for their work here,
                    albeit indirectly. Still, there very much is a
                    volunteer ethos in the NCUC. Going down the road
                    proposed by ICANN corporate will undoubtedly kill
                    that spirit. I’ve seen it happen in political
                    campaigns where paid and volunteer staff often run
                    into problems working with each other in harmony and
                    void of jealousy. The volunteers resent those being
                    paid.<br>
                     <br>
                    As Milton has written, we haven’t worked so hard to
                    restructure this corporation into one where the
                    ultimate power is community based to now allow staff
                    to better manage the community.<br>
                     <br>
                    I guess I can put this in more personal terms:  If
                    we are going to start paying people to do what I now
                    do for free, don’t expect me to do it for free
                    anymore. Yes, ICANN’s support in this area could
                    help us but ONLY by agreeing to contract with our
                    own people to provide these services. As it stands
                    now the only people not eligible to work in these
                    new roles for the NCUC are NCUC members. Yet our
                    members are free to work for other constituencies
                    and stakeholder groups. Does this somehow make sense
                    to anyone?<br>
                     <br>
                    Yes, last night four tired, overworked NCUC
                    volunteers worked on a NCSG public comment on the
                    FY17 Budget. I’ve seen a draft of ALAC’s public
                    comments, written with staff assistance. I’ve seen
                    the RSSAC comments. Our public comment will be
                    superior to those, as our comments often are. That’s
                    because of the talent and commitment of the
                    volunteer members of the NCUC.<br>
                     <br>
                    We do not need ICANN corporate to pay non NCUC
                    member students they select to do our policy
                    development for us. We certainly could use help and
                    resources in this area but not this type of help.
                    But if we decide to go in this direction...</div>
                  <div> </div>
                  <div>I wonder if I really could get hired and
                    help the IPC write policy documents porting the new
                    gTLD RPM's over to legacy gTLD's. Personally, I
                    think that's a terrible idea and as a NCUC volunteer
                    I've been prepared to fight it but I do need to pay
                    bills so...so much for my public service ethos.</div>
                  <div> </div>
                  <div>This program is a poorly designed bad
                    idea.<br>
                     <br>
                    Kind Regards,<br>
                     <br>
                    Ed</div>
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                <div><span style="font-family:
                    tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: “Kathy Kleiman” <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com"></a><a href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a>><br>
                    <b>Sent</b>: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 3:38
                    AM<br>
                    <b>To</b>: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br>
                    <b>Subject</b>: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Pilot
                    Program</span>
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                  I've been out of town, but if this offer is being made
                  to all constituencies, and we turn it down, won't we
                  potentially be at an even greater disadvantage than we
                  already are? We are already volunteer people in NCUC
                  working across the table from people largely paid to
                  be here from other constituencies. If they now get
                  paid staff to write their comments (presumably which
                  they have designed and drafted), doesn't our
                  disadvantage become that much worse? Aren't we that
                  much further behind?<br>
                  <br>
                  I agree that this person does not seem a good fit for
                  our positions, our work and our views. Of course, we
                  would want someone who is! But that's different than
                  rejecting the program.  With so many comments to which
                  we are Not responding and so much work we are Not
                  doing, it would be good to have someone who could turn
                  our notes into a draft -- to spin straw into gold :-).<br>
                  <br>
                  Best, Kathy<br>
                   
                  <div>On 4/25/2016 3:23 PM,
                    Sonigitu Ekpe wrote:</div>
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                          <div>Dear All,<br>
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                          I think after studying the write up, it is
                          worth supporting.<br>
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                        My 50cents, is to give in my support for the
                        pilot program.<br>
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                      Thank you.</div>
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                      <div>On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at
                        6:13 AM, Edward Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net">egmorris1@toast.net</a>></span>
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                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">Hello everybody,</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">The NCUC EC will be discussing
                              today whether to participate in an ICANN
                              pilot program designed to offer assistance
                              with policy research and document drafting
                              to selected constituencies and stakeholder
                              groups. I echo the views expressed by
                              Milton on the NCUC EC mailing list when he
                              writes “I want to express my strongest
                              opposition to this entire program”.</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">It is tempting. We are launching
                              three major pdp's, some of us are
                              dramatically overworked, we sure need
                              help. But not from ICANN, not in this way,
                              not now.</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">If ICANN wants to support the
                              NCUC in policy development (of course, the
                              NCUC traditionally does not do policy to
                              any great extent, a mistake in my
                              view)  there are ways to assist us with
                              resources. The key is control of these
                              resources. This program IMHO does not
                              empower the NCUC;  if successful it could
                              make us somewhat dependent upon ICANN for
                              assistance with <strong>policy</strong>.
                              Friends, if we can't research and draft
                              and create policy positions ourselves then
                              we don't deserve to exist. </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">Three years ago I was opposed to
                              accepting ICANN's offer of administrative
                              help. It was not that I thought hiring
                              someone (who turned out to be MaryAm) to
                              assist with the tasks volunteers like
                              Robin were then spending  far too much
                              time doing would doom us to “company
                              union” status. My opposition was based
                              upon the fear that once we went down this
                              slippery slope there was no turning back.
                              My fear is being realised with this
                              program.</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">In our proposed response we seem
                              to be asking ICANN for some of this type
                              of support:</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">- assistance with front end issue
                              research</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">- research on the background of
                              the specific issue being addressed</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">- join community calls/chats
                              where “position setting” is focus</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">This program is bering developed
                              by an ICANN contractor WBC Global. Dan
                              O'Neill is the Principal of the firm and
                              is the one working on this program with
                              ICANN. Dan's biography states:</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">As the principal of the firm,
                                he offers public policy, political and
                                strategic business advice to Fortune 500
                                and other companies, with a focus on
                                international trade, market access and
                                intellectual property rights.  He
                                represent companies before Congress, the
                                White House and federal agencies on a
                                diverse set of public policy matters
                                including investment, international
                                trade disputes, international tax,
                                custom issues as well as economic
                                sanctions issues.</font><br style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
                              <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"> </font><br style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
                              <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">Recent activities on behalf of
                                clients include: advising on the
                                Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
                                agreement on negotiations impacting
                                intellectual property rights, investment
                                and market access; lobby in support of
                                permanent normal trade relations (PNTR)
                                for Russia; strategizing and lobbying
                                for companies having market access and
                                IPR issues in China; advising on WTO
                                negotiations on expansion of the
                                Information Technology Agreement and
                                renewed effort to secure an agreement on
                                Services; and provide advice on the use
                                of US trade preference programs for
                                investment issues in developing
                                countries.</font></span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666">He also plays a leading role in
                                business community activity with UN
                                Internet Governance Forum (IGF).</font></span></div>
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                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">This is not someone I want
                              anywhere near our Constituency. Mr.
                              O'Neill spends his professional life
                              advocating for positions and organisations
                              that are traditionally opposed to that
                              which the NCUC supports. He's not somebody
                              with our interests at heart.</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">If ICANN wants to support the
                              NCUC in this area I have no problem with
                              the NCUC accepting ICANN's financial
                              support: provided we have complete
                              independence in selecting the hire and
                              defining the job. There are many in the
                              nonprofit sector, many public interest
                              organizations, we could contract with for
                              policy help if we had the resources and
                              freedom to do so. We can do better than
                              joining a “pilot program” being organised
                              by someone who has a “leading role in
                              business community activity” within the
                              IGF. In fact, instead of joining this
                              program we should be questioning why WBC
                              was hired.</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">One other problem: If ICANN is
                              going to pay people to do some of our
                              policy work then why should anyone do
                              other parts of our policy work for free?
                              When I run political campaigns I keep paid
                              canvassers completely separate from
                              volunteer canvassers. I've found you lose
                              the volunteers if you don't. Same thing
                              here. If you look at the details of the
                              proposal there is even a chance the help
                              provided may be an active member of
                              another part of the ICANN community.
                              Amazing.</span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> </span></div>
                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">I join Milton in hoping the EC
                              rejects this. We do need help in this area
                              but not under these terms. Our
                              independence is very much at stake.
                              Please, EC, keep ICANN and WBC Global away
                              from direct involvement in  the
                              noncommercial policy develkopmnent
                              process. Do not go further down this slope
                              leading to dependence upon ICANN for all
                              that we do.</span></div>
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                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">Best,</span></div>
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                          <div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px">Ed</span></div>
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