<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Really nice to hear all the good news from Kathy. Very thankful to have this on-boarding program under the auspices of NCUC and this awesome team. Good luck Louise, Dina and Kathy at ICANN62!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Elsa</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">--</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:52 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raquino@gmail.com" target="_blank">raquino@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear EC<br>
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I have not received any objections with continuation with the ongoing team.<br>
Thank you Louise for clarifying about team's activities.<br>
I've done due diligence as well into the team activities and they have<br>
been following to the letter the plans for this project and going<br>
beyond.<br>
I'm also sharing below a message from the team mentor.<br>
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Since we are 4 days over the deadline to decide on this, I'll<br>
communicate to members we will remain with the same Onboarding team<br>
for this last round.<br>
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From: Kathy Kleiman <<a href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:43 AM<br>
Subject: Community Onboarding Program - Request to Continue<br>
To: Renata Aquino Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:raquino@gmail.com">raquino@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: Louise Marie Hurel <<a href="mailto:louise.marie.hsd@gmail.com">louise.marie.hsd@gmail.com</a>>, thomascovenant<br>
<<a href="mailto:dinasolveig@thomascovenant.org">dinasolveig@thomascovenant.<wbr>org</a>><br>
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<br>
Dear Renata,<br>
<br>
If you could kindly circulate the message below to the NCUC EC, we<br>
would appreciate it!<br>
Best, Kathy<br>
___________<br>
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Dear Renata and the NCUC EC,<br>
<br>
I would like to thank you for sending a tremendous team to ICANN61 for<br>
the Community Onboarding Program. As you know, our team consisted of<br>
Louise Marie Hurel, Dina Solveig Jalkanen and myself. Our composition<br>
is designed for a mentor, a senior mentee and a junior mentee, but in<br>
reality, we all mentor each other and grow together.<br>
<br>
Part of the beauty of the Community Onboarding Project is that each<br>
constituency creates its own onboarding program. Since the beginning,<br>
our goal has been to increase the number of NCUC voices participating<br>
actively and expertly in the PDP Working Groups. With 3 PDP Working<br>
Groups taking place simultaneously, NCUC members are spread thin and<br>
yet many WG issues are important to noncommercial organizations and<br>
noncommercial speech in gTLDs and DNS.<br>
<br>
Louise and now Dina have jumped into the PDP WGs “with both feet,” and<br>
many additional ICANN activities as well. The purpose of this email is<br>
to share a brief overview of our work at ICANN61 – and share our<br>
deepest thanks with you.<br>
<br>
1 1. Dina – PDP WGs<br>
<br>
Dina has joined both the Rights Protections Mechanisms PDP WG<br>
and the Registration Directory Services PDP WG! This is a huge<br>
commitment, but she is “coming up to speed” rapidly. Louise has worked<br>
with Dina – as one former newcomer to a current newcomer -- and we<br>
find this structure works very well for helping newcomers feel<br>
comfortable. Dina can ask Louise any and all questions – from<br>
procedural to substantive – and Louise guides Dina through<br>
introductory materials she has prepared and that we have prepared<br>
together. I provide a broader historical view of our RPM work and the<br>
issues that have concerned us in NCUC over the many years that we<br>
worked on the UDRP and, more recently, the URS, Sunrise Period,<br>
Trademark Claims and Trademark Clearinghouse for New gTLDs.<br>
<br>
2. Louise – PDP WGs<br>
<br>
Louise started in the Onboarding Program as a newcomer and is<br>
now operating as an expert in the Rights Protections Mechanisms WG. In<br>
the small group of NCUC members who participate regularly in the RPM<br>
WG 90 minutes a week meetings, Louise is an active and reliable voice<br>
for noncommercial issues and concerns. She is a wonderful voice for<br>
due process – a fair and balanced process before domain names (and<br>
their associated websites and email addresses) are yanked from<br>
noncommercial organizations and their websites are taken down. Louise<br>
has also joined the RDS PDP WG – sharing her thoughts and talents, and<br>
our NCUC concerns. We are very fortunate to have her in both WGs.<br>
<br>
<br>
3. Kathy - PDP WGs<br>
<br>
I am a regular participant in all three PDP WGs (sympathies welcome!).<br>
I have resumed regular attendance in the RDS PDP WG and attend<br>
Subsequent Procedures WG Subteam 2 meetings (legal/regulatory issues).<br>
I also co-chair the RPM PDP WG, as you know. In this capacity at<br>
ICANN61, I was invited by the GNSO Council to join their discussion on<br>
the future of the PDP process. In this important discussion, my work<br>
in the Onboarding program made a big difference.<br>
<br>
I found there is a deep concern in the GNSO Council of the large sizes<br>
of the PDP WGs and a possible new direction towards smaller expert<br>
groups for policy going forward (one of the ideas floated). Louise,<br>
Dina, Ayden, and all of you have taught me that new members are the<br>
future of PDP WGs – the life blood. We simply can’t have the same “old<br>
timers” writing and re-writing the policies. We need new members –<br>
with their energy, insight, perspective, questions and concerns -- to<br>
help us review our policies, understand their impact globally, assess<br>
whether free expression and human rights are protected, and evaluate<br>
changes need ahead. As I shared these thoughts, I saw many heads<br>
nodding.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
4. Other activities at ICANN61 and beyond<br>
<br>
With multiple sessions of each PDP WG in San Juan (RPM WG had four<br>
alone!), Dina and Louise were busy attending these sessions, and NCUC<br>
and technical sessions as well. Dina was one of the only NCUC members<br>
to attend the Privacy/Proxy Services Accreditation Implementation<br>
Review Team, and there she spoke with a representative of the US<br>
Department of Justice about non-commercial concerns regarding the<br>
timing of release of a registrant’s private data. It is these informal<br>
discussions that can often change a deeply-held perspective or provide<br>
new nuances and sensitivity to a formerly-hardened point of view.<br>
<br>
The NCUC Policy Course was a tremendous expansion of NCUC’s policy<br>
work and I believe both Louise and Dina dropped by. I was very<br>
fortunate to join this amazing group during the presentations of their<br>
award certificates at the end, and had the opportunity to congratulate<br>
them, welcome them, and thank them for this hard work at ICANN61 and<br>
their active work ahead writing NCUC comments! We need their<br>
incredible interest and energy – and I am happy and excited for this<br>
amazing new group of NCUC comment writers and leaders!<br>
<br>
<br>
Dina shared comment writing insights with the ICANN Fellows in an<br>
early morning session she set up. She expected only a few people to<br>
attend, but 15 people came! She is planning another session for<br>
ICANN62, with special attention for those interested in joining NCUC.<br>
Together Louise and Dina, with Tomslin, recently released a draft<br>
comment on ICANN’s Plan to Restart the Root Key Signing Key (KSK)<br>
Rollover Process. Nothing could make a mentor prouder...<br>
<br>
5. Our request<br>
<br>
Louise, Dina and I would like to request one last meeting together as<br>
NCUC’s Community Onboarding Team. We understand this is the last<br>
Onboarding session (unless budgets change) and thus ICANN62 would wrap<br>
up our work together. But it will not wrap our contributions to or on<br>
behalf of NCUC. The goal of the Community Onboarding Program was to<br>
produce active, expert and ongoing participation in PDP WGs. Our work<br>
has only just begun!<br>
<br>
Dina adds: “Onboarding provided me with a broad overview on ICANN and<br>
an excellent mentor who knows how to approach things, how to be more<br>
efficient when writing policy, and what is the best approach to go<br>
about ICANN inner politics. I feel I have the support I need to be<br>
involved.”<br>
<br>
We are deeply honored to have been your team to the Community<br>
Onboarding. Thank you for the opportunity to spend dedicated time<br>
together, and with the larger Onboarding Program. We have learned from<br>
them, and hopefully, other constituencies have learned from us and our<br>
advocacy of NCUC and noncommercial concerns. We look forward to<br>
working with you in the PDP WGs and other policy opportunities where<br>
NCUC needs us – in evaluating, analyzing, researching, negotiating,<br>
drafting and policies that protect our noncommercial organizations and<br>
speech. Tx you so much for this amazing opportunity to work together<br>
and to work with you!<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Kathy<br>
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