[NCUC-EC] Possible invitees for NCUC CS outreach meeting in DC Wed. 13 January

Stephanie Perrin stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
Mon Dec 22 16:18:56 CET 2014


Does anyone know what the schedule looks like for the three days? Before 
i book my flights, trying to figure out a night for dinner with pals.  
Nothing happens SUnday night, correct?
cheers steph
On 2014-12-22, 10:14, Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am fine with being responsble for an issue.  IANA seems appropriate 
> for me.
>
> I am still uncertain what the schedule requirements for this are. And 
> whether they will support the extra night in the hotel for someone who 
> can get home on a 10PM flight the night before.  the invite does not 
> say they will.
>
> avri
>
>
>
> On 22-Dec-14 10:04, William Drake wrote:
>> Hi from Chicago
>>
>>>> On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:49 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu 
>>>> <mailto:mueller at syr.edu>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let’s invite L. Gordon Crovitch ;-)
>>>> I’d like to get my hands on him….
>>
>> Personally, politics aside, I’d prefer to steer clear of anyone who 
>> has his minions produce a self-important Wikipedia entry.
>>
>> I’ve received several concrete suggestions of names but could use 
>> more, with affiliations and email addresses please. After we get our 
>> travel details sorted and over the holiday hump I’ll send back a 
>> proposed invite list and letter that staff can blast out like ten 
>> days before the meeting.
>>
>> In terms of content, again I’d suggest skipping the what is ICANN org 
>> chart thing and go straight to the distributed presentation of 3 
>> minute issue intros connecting our issues with stuff folks there 
>> might care about, followed by open conversation.  A priori I’d expect 
>> a more focused and substantive discussion than what we managed in 
>> London and LA if we manage to herd in a bunch of beltway policy wonks.
>>
>> What do you folks think we should cover, and who’d be interested in 
>> taking which piece?  Would this be a good starting point?  Topics to 
>> add?  In total I don’t think we should talk ‘at’ them for more than 
>> 30 minutes if that before going to discussion, if we got even a third 
>> of the names on last year’s Fadi list I suspect we’d have robust 
>> engagement from visitors...
>>
>>  1. IANA (Avri?)
>>  2. Accountability (Matt?)
>>  3. Human rights generally (Marilia?)
>>  4. Privacy (Stephanie?)
>>  5. FoE & 'Internet freedom’ as locals call it (Walid?)
>>  6. Access to knowledge/IPR/trademark (Kathy?)
>>  7. Development (Rafik?)
>>  8. IG generally, NMI, etc (Bill?)
>>
>>
>> Matt, any news on whether CDT’s office would be available like 10am - 
>> noon on Wed. 14th?  What staff have lined up for us now is a room 
>> at Wiley Rein that sits about 20-24 people, so a) we’d definitely 
>> need to cull the invite list and b) this would be in a rather odd 
>> environment for a CS meeting….
>>
>> Happy holidays, as applicable.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> *From:*Rafik Dammak [mailto:rafik.dammak at gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:*Monday, December 22, 2014 7:14 AM
>>> *To:*William Drake
>>> *Cc:*Milton L Mueller; Matt Shears; Walid AL-SAQAF; Marilia Maciel; 
>>> Exec. Comm; Stephanie Perrin; Amr Elsadr; Edward Morris; Avri Doria; 
>>> Kathy Kleiman; Joy Liddicoat; David Cake
>>> *Subject:*Re: [NCUC-EC] Possible invitees for NCUC CS outreach 
>>> meeting in DC Wed. 13 January
>>> Hi,
>>> I guess the list will be shrinked somehow :) I don't think we can 
>>> consider ISOC as civil society for example. we can try to invite 
>>> those folks (anyway nobody talked about inviting CP80 anyway) and 
>>> see if they can confirm their attendance. even if we don't expect 
>>> CFR, heritage or  Hudson to join us, at least we can let them and 
>>> others know there is already group of CS people involved for years 
>>> in ICANN and having expertise. just recall the letter sent about 
>>> IANA transition 
>>> (http://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2014/oti_sends_letter_to_congress_on_the_dotcom_bill_and_the_iana_transition-107726)
>>> as names , Joy suggested to check with APC members in USA, Kathy 
>>> suggested Rebecca recommendations (and she wrote about NCUC before) 
>>> . I can suggest Susan Aaronson .
>>> we have 3 weeks before this meeting and I would expect us to have 
>>> some points to present to those folks.
>>> what would interest DC folks?
>>>
>>> Rafik
>>>
>>> 2014-12-16 17:47 GMT+09:00 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch 
>>> <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>>:
>>>
>>>     Hi Milton
>>>     Thanks for the input, sorry you’re shocked. As I said, we’re
>>>     unlikely to be able fit all the all the people below in the room
>>>     with us, and people are providing other names as well.  So I was
>>>     suggesting we prioritize and invite in tranches, in which case
>>>     I’d think we’d start with people who might conceivably be open
>>>     to getting involved with us, which is sort of the purpose of an
>>>     outreach meeting.  But I don’t care enough either way to debate
>>>     it with you, so we could instead invite broadly and whoever
>>>     RSVPs first and gets into the room, that’s who we have.  Send
>>>     any names you like from Cato, Heritage, CP80, House Republican
>>>     staff, whatever, and I’ll pass their details to ICANN for the
>>>     invite blast.
>>>
>>>     Bill
>>>
>>>         On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Milton L Mueller
>>>         <mueller at syr.edu <mailto:mueller at syr.edu>> wrote:
>>>         Bill.
>>>         It’s really wrong and even shocking for you to suggest
>>>         dropping people from the list because you don’t like their
>>>         ideology. I don’t see anyone on that list who doesn’t share
>>>         some core values of NCUC regarding internet freedom.
>>>         Either we are the noncommercial stakeholders group or we are
>>>         something else. If the people involved are involved in
>>>         nonprofit advocacy groups and are eligible for NCUC
>>>         membership they should be invited, full stop.
>>>         --MM
>>>         *From:*ncuc-ec-bounces at lists.ncuc.org
>>>         <mailto:ncuc-ec-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> [mailto:ncuc-ec-bounces at lists.ncuc.org]
>>>         *On Behalf Of *William Drake
>>>         *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2014 9:20 AM
>>>         *To:* Exec. Comm
>>>         *Cc:* Matt Shears; Marilia Maciel; Stephanie Perrin; Amr
>>>         Elsadr; Avri Doria; Edward Morris; Kathy Kleiman; Joy
>>>         Liddicoat; David Cake
>>>         *Subject:* [NCUC-EC] Possible invitees for NCUC CS outreach
>>>         meeting in DC Wed. 13 January
>>>         Hello
>>>         As we’ve discussed, there will be an NCUC civil society
>>>         outreach meeting in DC the morning of Wed. 14 January, after
>>>         the NCPH meeting. Probably we’ll do 10-1pm, we’ll see. 
>>>         Think it will be in some law office, the ICANN office is not
>>>         available. More on that later.
>>>         Again, for the covered travelers, if you cannot get an
>>>         afternoon or evening flight out on the 14th, ICANN will
>>>         cover your hotel that night.  Once Constituency Travel
>>>         starts to get in touch on this and you’ve worked out your
>>>         itinerary, please let me and Rob Hoggarth know if you will
>>>         be needing hotel for that night.
>>>         I’d like to do something similar to what we tried at the LA
>>>         outreach meeting, but better—have a number of people teed up
>>>         to speak 3 minutes each on some of the issues we work on,
>>>         hold all Q&A until the end and then go to an integrative
>>>         freewheeling discussion. Since the folks we will be inviting
>>>         are generally pretty up to speed beltway mavens, we won’t
>>>         need to do a lot of what is ICANN introductory nonsense…just
>>>         get to what we’re doing and then have discussion and say if
>>>         you’re into knowing more or maybe even joining please be in
>>>         touch.  We’ll sort this out going forward.
>>>         Below is the list of people that the ICANN DC office invited
>>>         to meet with Fadi when he was in DC in January for the State
>>>         of the Net Conference.  A number of these it’d be good to
>>>         invite again, but some I’d drop, e.g. people from
>>>         conservative think tanks and such who neither share our
>>>         views nor are going to get involved with us.  I don’t know
>>>         exactly how many bodies the room we’ll have can accommodate,
>>>         am waiting for an answer on that from Rob and Chris, but am
>>>         guessing we’d want a mix like a dozen of us and two dozen
>>>         external folks?
>>>         Depending on the numbers, we may not be able to accommodate
>>>         all the bodies we can name, or might have to do it in waves,
>>>         i.e. invite a first tranche and if some say no then invite
>>>         others.  We’ll figure it out.  What I want to know now is,
>>>         are there DC public interest activists and friendly analysts
>>>         you can think of who are not listed and might conceivably be
>>>         interested in meeting with us to hear what we’re into etc? 
>>>         If so, please send me their names, affiliations and email
>>>         addresses to fold into the list, and then we’ll sort out
>>>         later who’s in our first tranche etc.
>>>         Thanks
>>>         Bill
>>>
>>>          1. Brigner            Paul     Internet Society
>>>             (ISOC)         Regional Director North America Bureau
>>>          2. Solomon          Brett    Access Executive Director
>>>          3. Kimmelman     Gene    Public Knowledge      President
>>>          4. Beach  Tim      Georgetown    Director, Program in
>>>             Science, Technology, and International Affairs
>>>          5. Hoffman         Lance  George Washington    Director,
>>>             Computer Science Department
>>>          6. Zaychenko      Elizaveta         American Enterprise
>>>             Institute Tech Policy Intern
>>>          7. Eisenach          Jeffrey American Enterprise
>>>             Institute Director, Center for Internet, Communications,
>>>             and Technology Policy
>>>          8. Nojeim Gregory           Center for Democracy and
>>>             Technology          Director, Project on Freedom,
>>>             Security & Technology
>>>          9. Lewis  James   Center for Strategic and International
>>>             Studies           Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic
>>>             Technologies Program
>>>         10. DeNardis       Laura   American University   Professor,
>>>             School of Communications
>>>         11. Lordan           Tim      Internet Education
>>>             Foundation          Executive Director
>>>         12. Burger           Eric      Georgetown    Research
>>>             Professor of Computer Science and Director, Georgetown
>>>             Center for Secure Communications
>>>         13. Dourado        Eli        George Mason Research Fellow,
>>>             Tech Policy, Mercatus Center, George Mason Univ.
>>>         14. Levin Blair    Aspen Institute           Fellow, Aspen
>>>             Institute
>>>         15. Atkinson        Robert ITIF     President, ITIF
>>>         16. Brown           Kathryn           ISOC   CEO, ISOC
>>>         17. Kornbluh       Karen  CFR    Senior Fellow for Digital
>>>             Policy
>>>         18. West  Darrell Brookings        Vice President and
>>>             Director, Governance Studies; Founding Director, Center
>>>             for Technology Innovation
>>>         19. O'Connor       Nuala   CDT    President & CEO
>>>         20. McDowell     Robert Hudson Institute         Visiting
>>>             Fellow (and 5th panel member)
>>>         21. Lenard           Thomas            Technology Policy
>>>             Institute    President
>>>         22. Maciel            Marilia Center for Technology and
>>>             Society, Getulio Vargas Foundation      Project
>>>             Leader/Researcher/Assistant Professor of IP Law
>>>         23. Tim Maurer                Open Technology Institute
>>>         24. Kehl   Danielle           New America Foundation
>>>         25. Sascha Meinrath                    New America Foundation
>>>         26. Holmes Wilson                      Fight for the Future
>>>         27. Pedro Abramovay                 Open Society Foundations
>>>         28. Yeh    Jennifer           Free Press        Policy Counsel
>>>         29. Craig Aaron               Free Press
>>>         30. Matt Wood                Free Press
>>>         31. Rebecca MacKinnon             New America and GNI
>>>         32. Catalina Botero                     OAS Special Rappourter
>>>         33. Kilic   Burcu  Public Citizen
>>>         34. Cerda Alberto            Derechos Digitales and
>>>             Georgetown Univ.
>>>         35. Daniel Weitzner                    MIT
>>>         36. Vasdev          Samhir World Bank    Innovation and
>>>             Design Consultant, Open Technology Alliance
>>>         37. Pohl   Rachel Aspen Institute
>>>         38. Rossini           Carolina           Public Knowledge
>>>
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