<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">+1 Joy. We have two policy development process working groups in ICANN now speeding towards completion -- with multiple meetings a week, and some at changing and unusual times (Subsequent Procedures WG for rules of new gTLD applications/processing/roll-out and Rights Protections Mechanisms for trademark and free speech protections of the same). I think EPDP folks are working even harder than we are.<div><br /></div><div>Plus, I am in a country where COVID is spreading rapidly, where were are trying to figure out how we'll be teaching in the Fall, and any number of other additional pressures from the pandemic.</div><div><br /></div><div>Is this the right time?</div><div><br /></div><div>Best, Kathy<br /><div><br /></div><div> <br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> joy@liddicoat.nz</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:06:30 +1200<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Troika merge proposal<br /><br /><br /><p>Hi Joly - good question, thanks. To be honest, I have no
intention of responding to the debate at this point - the idea
generates about as much interest as I would have in sharpening a
blunt pencil and using it to poke holes in cheese. <br /></p>
<p>No disrespect intended to those who favour discussing it, but
honestly, with all the other issues in the DNS+ world right now, I
would have thought better to engage in substantive policy work
than on this kind of internal restructuring.</p>
<p>I acknowledge that I say this as someone who hasn't engaged in
policy work for some time (for various reasons) and also being
from New Zealand, where we currently have the privilege of living
in a Covid-free community thanks to our strong political
leadership and collective community action. However, this does
give me a different perspective on ICANN, gTLDs, ccTLDs and
relative priorities.<br /></p>
<p>Joy Liddicoat<br /></p>
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deafeniing silence from the NCUC old school on this topic. Are
we keeping our powder dry?</div>
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