<div dir="ltr">+1<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)<br></div><div>Associate Professor, Department of Media, Journalism & Film <span style="font-size:12.8px">(Media and Culture Program)</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and Department of Global and Intercultural Studies (Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program)</span></div><div>Miami University-Ohio; USA</div><div><br></div><div>Contact:</div><div>Department of Media, Journalism & Film; Williams Hall; Miami University;</div><div>Oxford, OH 45056; USA</div><div>Tele: 513-529-3547; Fax: 513-529-1835; Email: <a href="mailto:mclauglm@miamioh.edu" target="_blank">mclauglm@miamioh.edu</a></div><div>
<p> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 12:10 AM farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Benjamin,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not only do we need to respond, we should reach out to our friends and colleagues and tell them what the problem is<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">. See the responses below:</span></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 1:57 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear NCUC members,<div><br></div><div>Good day and I hope your week is going well.</div><div>Thank you for participating in the NCUC Readout session. As discussed in the meeting today, please share your response to these questions to gather our community views.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">ICANN Board Chair Tripti Sinha is requesting feedback from your respective community groups on the </span>question of <span>rebalancing</span> the Nominating Committee (<span>NomCom</span>) by *<b>30 June 2023</b>*. As noted in the letter, the ICANN Board wishes to engage with the <span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">community to understand the community’s views on this topic. The Board is specifically seeking input on the following questions:<br><br>1. What does it mean to have a balanced <span>NomCom</span> at a point in time? For example, what criteria would you apply to measure or assess whether the<br><span>NomCom</span> is balanced? And further, how can one test whether or not the <span>NomCom</span> is balanced? </span></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">A balanced NomCom means that the noncommercial and commercial stakeholder groups as predicted have the same number of delegates. For example, if the Commercial Group has three delegates, the noncommercial group should have three delegates. This is the least that can be done when rebalancing.It should be remodeled based on GNSO council composition. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br>2. Do you support the view that the current composition of the <span>NomCom </span>needs to be <span>rebalanced</span>? Please explain why or why not.<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Yes it needs to be rebalanced because as we have argued the noncommercials have fewer delegates compared to the commercial stakeholder group. In every ICANN group, the commercial and noncommercial stakeholder groups should have equal number of delegates, irrespective of how many internal constituencies they each have. </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Also the advisory committees either should be voting delegates or non-voting delegates. Perhaps because ICANN is privately led and the chair of GAC is a liaison on the board the nonvoting nomcom (which they have never appointed) might make sense but it is unclear why some advisory committees are voting and some are not. </span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br>3. How frequently does the balance need to be measured or assessed?<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">After rebalancing, if the review of various ICANN structures lead to structural changes (which it rarely does) </span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">then we need to assess whether it should affect delegation on Nomcom. </span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br>4. How do you suggest that the <span>NomCom</span>’s composition be <span>rebalanced</span>?<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Same number of delegates from Commercial and Noncommercial stakeholders group. If CSG has 3 delegates, NCSG has to have 3 delegates too. We don't necessarily ask for increasing the number of our delegates but we ask to reconsider the number of delegates CSG can have. </div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">5. Who should conduct this work, and how should it be conducted?<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The board should follow the third party reviewer recommendation. </div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br>6. How would your community group prioritize consideration of this issue<br>within your planning efforts?<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This has been a priority issue for NCUC and NCSG since a long time. We are directly affected. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br>Additional background on the work to date on this topic, including by the <span>NomCom</span> Review Implementation Working Group that<br>was set up to implement the outcomes of the Second <span>NomCom</span> Review (see <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence</a></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br><<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence</a>> for each of the<br>letters sent to all 21 SOAC leaders). In addition, on 25 May 2023, the<br>Chair of the Board’s Organizational Effectiveness Committee, Katrina<br>Sataki, and members of ICANN org’s Reviews Support & Accountability team<br>gave a presentation to the GNSO Council that covered the present<br>structure of <span>NomCom</span>, a brief history of the <span>rebalancing</span> matter and<br>forthcoming actions. As such, you may find the presentation<br></span><<a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/presentation/presentation-gnso-council-nomcom-rebalancing-revised-25may23-en.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2023/presentation/presentation-gnso-council-<span>nomcom</span>-<span>rebalancing</span>-revised-25may23-en.pdf</a>> and<br>the recording<br><<a href="https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/7pSQ37mSB5wGz8-msQS2PDpzhQ6VdJQISm2SYmWKwfFMWFM_Z6FdMsFiipNyIV-E.J55mm5SBjoZJS9d9?startTime=1684990882000" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/7pSQ37mSB5wGz8-msQS2PDpzhQ6VdJQISm2SYmWKwfFMWFM_Z6FdMsFiipNyIV-E.J55mm5SBjoZJS9d9?startTime=1684990882000</a>> (from<br><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">00:14:10 - 00:31:38) helpful in discussing any planned feedback with<br>your members.</span><br></div></div></div>
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