<div dir="ltr"><div>Ayden - you're wrong on your transparency complaints. The entire conversation took place on the EC list, and is open for review. There are <u style="font-weight:bold">no communications</u> that are not documented there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As to the question of consultation... I think there's room for reasonable disagreement as to when and how often we should be polling the members. I think Farzi raised an interesting point earlier, insofar as this is something that only the leadership go to, so they're probably better placed to make the decision about its utility than the members. Obviously the EC want to act in a way that's consistent with the wishes of the membership - but I don't think it's part of our procedures to go back to the members every time a decision needs to be made. That's not how a representative democracy works.</div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:13 AM Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>How I would like to see the Intersessional evolve is not the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is why did the NCUC Executive Committee propose eliminating the Intersessional without first consulting with NCUC members.<div><br></div><div>This comes down to how the EC is making decisions, which, as has been well documented on our list for months now, is not transparent and not in keeping with our values.<div><br></div><div>Renata is going to the CEO asking for capacity building resources, while the EC is busy rejecting the resources that we already have and could re-purpose with a little imagination.</div><div><br></div><div>And this is happening without membership consultation.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you think this is acceptable? Because I don’t.</div><div><br></div><div>—Ayden  <br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 28 Aug 2018, at 16:05, Michael Karanicolas <<a href="mailto:mkaranicolas@gmail.com" target="_blank">mkaranicolas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7282304173746084142Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:56 AM Ayden Férdeline <</span><a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">icann@ferdeline.com</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br>No, I am not describing the Leadership Program, which from what I understand (I have not participated in it), focuses more on soft skills.<br><br>What I would like is for us to re-think what should be the purpose of the Intersessional, and to turn it more into a policy bootcamp whereby we get members up to speed every year on key topics, strategise for the year ahead, and work with other Stakeholder Groups to understand their perspectives.<br><br>And I don’t think we necessarily need all of our leaders at the Intersessional to do this. Some leaders yes, some veterans yes, some rising stars yes.<br><br>That’s my view,<br><br>Ayden<br><br></blockquote><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">Ok. So now it sounds like you're describing a slightly revised version</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">of the Leadership Program, with a bit more of a policy component, and</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">a breakout session for members to strategize.</span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div>