[NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO

Sat Feb 11 06:12:44 CET 2017

Thanks for contributing here is what I am going to cover:

I will give a background on  NCUC, its role at ICANN and the positive
contributions we have made and correct misperceptions if there are any:

I included ( among other things) Our executive committee consists of
elected members from various regions and the majority are women. We are
championing the multi stakeholder model in various forums regionally and
internationally. We are active members of various working groups and have
leading roles (chair, rapporteurs, drafting and writing).

Opinions:

-we  would like to know more about steps that ICANN org will take to live
up to the new human rights core value if the FOI is approved and this could
be a discussion in Copenhagen. NCUC members are ready to help ICANN org
with taking initiatives to live up to HR core value.

- that consensus policy continues to be undermined by ICANN counsel and
staff. We are seeing  work which ignores and shunts aside Consensus
Policies - particularly those balances and compromises that protect
noncommercial registrants and especially noncommercial speech, free
expression and trademark fair use online - in other areas as well. It makes
it very difficult and frustrating for volunteers to spend hundreds of hours
negotiating policies that are then thrown out, limited or circumvented by
other means available to ICANN.

- I will make the point why it is absolutely essential that the GNSO
continue to be structured in a way that balances commercial and
noncommercial and contracted and non-contracted parties, and why board and
GAC interference with GNSO consensus policies after the fact is a bad thing.

- The travel ban and its effect on traveling to ICANN meetings- We think
ICANN should have taken a stronger stand in objecting the travel ban. We
also think that ICANN should focus on how it can mitigate the harm that
could be potentially done on participation of ICANN community and ICANN org
in ICANN meeting

- At present, some members who are involved with various policy developing
groups have observed that their work is undermined by ICANN org and
sometimes other groups within ICANN governance.  We want to investigate
opportunities and channels for "enhanced cooperation" among stakeholders
and constituencies based on an understanding that without a strong
non-commercial constituency/civil society ICANN will fail to implement its
mission.

- Diversity and international community participation especially from
developing countries in ICANN meetings as well as their participation in
policy development are important for us and we think that choosing ICANN
location should be done with care and understanding diversity needs.

- We want ICANN to discuss and inform the community about a pressing issue:
Given the political transition with the new administration, we want to know
how ICANN  envision its relationship with the Department of Commerce going
forward.

and I will Invite him to constituency day

Farzaneh

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:52 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
wrote:

> This one I can answer, this is not in the mission of ICANN to do, this
> would be a question for ISOC or somewhere else.
>
> -J
>
> From: Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> on behalf of
> Norbert Komlan GLAKPE <norbertglakpe at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday 10 February 2017 at 17:26
> To: Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>
> Cc: "william.drake at uzh.ch" <william.drake at uzh.ch>, "
> ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org" <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO
>
> Dear all,
> I have few questions for the CEO of ICANN:
> You recently said that the future of Internet is Africa.
> Then I would want to recall that Africa actually has the lowest Internet
> penetration ratio.
> We need broadband Internet in our schools to disseminate knowledge and
> improve the quality of the education.
> We need affordable Internet for our companies, businesses, startups to
> enable innovation. We need braodband in our homes for so many raisons.
> We need to get rural areas online to let Internet trigger the
> socio-economic development.
> I would want to add that the future of Africa is Internet (and
> electricity).
>
> So, Mr CEO, What is your plan, your strategy to accelerate broadband
> Internet Africa
>
> Thanks,
>
> Norbert Komlan GLAKPE
>
> 2017-02-08 2:16 GMT+00:00 Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.
> utoronto.ca>:
>
>> I agree with the below.  I think it is important to emphasize the
>> positive nature of our contributions, not ask embarrassing or uncomfortable
>> questions.  Fine to point out difficult problems, as long as we can answer
>> that key response question, "so what do you think we should do about it?"
>>
>> cheers Stephanie
>>
>> On 2017-02-07 04:32, matthew shears wrote:
>>
>> Hi - inline
>>
>> On 07/02/2017 10:19, William Drake wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 21:18, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Farzaneh:
>>
>> Your primary goal in this talk should be to make sure the new CEO
>> understands who and what NCUC is, to solicit information from him about
>> what attitudes (prejudices?) and perceptions he has about us, correcting
>> any misperceptions he might have. So I would come up with some basic
>> talking points about that. You need to make it clear why it is absolutely
>> essential that the GNSO continue to be structured in a way that balances
>> commercial and noncommercial and contracted and non-contracted parties, and
>> why board and GAC interference with GNSO consensus policies after the fact
>> is a bad thing.
>>
>> + 100
>>
>>
>> Agree.  While I think he has some sense of what we’re about already,
>> given prior discussions, it’d be good to lock it the desired framing.  And
>> to invite him to Constituency Day.
>>
>>
>> As a secondary priority, you might discuss the prohibition on content
>> regulation and how we think the use of PICs might circumvent that.
>>
>> Agree
>>
>> You could emphasize our belief that in the new accountability
>> arrangements, ACs such as ALAC were given too much power relative to the
>> much larger and more diverse set of stakeholders in the GNSO, and how a
>> ALAC/GAC alliance in certain bylaw disputes might thwart attempts to keep
>> ICANN constrained within its mission.
>>
>>
>> Unless my memory is foggy this morning we were not in uniform agreement
>> on these points, so if there’s time to get into them it maybe qualified
>> them as “some members are concerned that..”.
>>
>>
>> Also, and while I largely agree with this, what is the point of bringing
>> this up?  Are we asking for some review of the Accountability mechanisms?
>> Are we asking him  to keep an eye on their possible collusion?   If I were
>> Goran I would say - and so what do you think should be done about this?
>>
>> Agree with Bill's qualification.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Ncuc-discuss [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org
>> <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org>] *On Behalf Of *farzaneh badii
>> *Sent:* Monday, February 6, 2017 7:25 AM
>> *To:* NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>> *Subject:* [NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO
>>
>> Dear NCUC members,
>>
>> I will have a 1:1 meeting with the ICANN CEO next week. If you would like
>> me to discuss a topic with him, please share it on this list by 10 Feb.
>> Since this is a 30 minute talk I cannot cover everything but I will try my
>> best to at least mention some of the suggested topic briefly.
>>
>> Best
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Farzaneh
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