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<p> Hi Benjamin,</p>
<p>I appreciate the invitation, and am glad we could celebrate
NCUC's Anniversary in such a thought-provoking and collective way.
Milton and Farzi led the way; you and I helped, as I am sure did
others. Andrea was very helpful too. <br>
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<p>What made the NCUC Issues Forum special to me is that it was "not
the usual," and not something we do every day. People came
because we asked them and to celebrate NCUC and our history. It
took huge amounts of time and planning for Milton, for Farzi, for
me, and for you, and for those joined us.<br>
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<p>It's a huge amount of time and thought, and I am tired. I also
need to see the fruits of the extraordinary labor - within NCUC.
I really think we need to be dividing the regular/significant
policy work of ICANN among NCUC members - e.g., everyone with a
travel grant from NCUC should be dividing up the important
meetings of ICANN (together and ahead of time), figuring out what
NCUC issues/concerns are involved in these (policy) meetings,
working to insert these issues/concerns into the meeting via
writing or discussion (e.g, during Q&A), and reporting back to
the full NCUC in an oral presentation (e.g, at our NCUC meeting <b><i>with
a few slides </i></b>to teach others the issue and acronyms
in a visual as well as oral way) and short written summary (just a
few paragraphs) of what happened at that meeting and how NCUC
should follow-up. <i><b>That would be a positive, collective,
important product for NCUC as we come out of our Anniversary
year. We could have eyes and ears everywhere and be involved
in every issue important to us. </b></i><br>
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<p>This set of NCUC eyes and ears are tired, and a little
discouraged. I must respectfully decline.</p>
<p>Wishing you and everyone on the Exec Committee very Happy
Holidays.<br>
</p>
<p>Kathy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/4/2023 6:04 PM, Benjamin
Akinmoyeje wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Kathy and Milton:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the entire NCUC Executive
Committee and membership, I would like to thank you both for
all your efforts to create and deliver the NCUC Issue Forums
at ICANN77 and ICANN78. At our executive committee meeting
this week the EC agreed that both events were extremely
successful and we would like to continue to bring interesting
issues and perspectives to future ICANN meetings with this
format.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As we begin to plan for the next NCUC Issue
Forum at ICANN79, and while we in the EC do not wish to impose
further, we recognize that we will benefit from your
assistance to carry these events further on our own.
Specifically, we look forward to working with both of you to
help us identify suitable topics that you believe are useful
to cover as well as specialists that the EC can call upon to
participate as panel members and speakers.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The EC and I are prepared to assume the
burden of planning these events, but your experience and
insight would be helpful. We welcome any ideas or thoughts you
can share on topics to cover and speakers to invite. In
addition, in the coming weeks, I will begin the planning
process with a message to the “Discuss” list calling for
topics and speakers. Your contributions to that discussion
would also be most welcome.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you both again and I look forward to
hearing from you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Benjamin </p>
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Kathy Kleiman
President, Domain Name Rights Coalition
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