[NCUC-EC] ICANN Community Onboarding Pilot Program Call for Nominations by SOs/ACs

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Dear EC

I have not received any objections with continuation with the ongoing team.
Thank you Louise for clarifying about team's activities.
I've done due diligence as well into the team activities and they have
been following to the letter the plans for this project and going
beyond.
I'm also sharing below a message from the team mentor.

Since we are 4 days over the deadline to decide on this, I'll
communicate to members we will remain with the same Onboarding team
for this last round.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kathy Kleiman <kathy at kathykleiman.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:43 AM
Subject: Community Onboarding Program - Request to Continue
To: Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
Cc: Louise Marie Hurel <louise.marie.hsd at gmail.com>, thomascovenant
<dinasolveig at thomascovenant.org>


Dear Renata,

If you could kindly circulate the message below to the NCUC EC, we
would appreciate it!
Best, Kathy
___________

Dear Renata and the NCUC EC,

I would like to thank you for sending a tremendous team to ICANN61 for
the Community Onboarding Program. As you know, our team consisted of
Louise Marie Hurel, Dina Solveig Jalkanen and myself. Our composition
is designed for a mentor, a senior mentee and a junior mentee, but in
reality, we all mentor each other and grow together.

Part of the beauty of the Community Onboarding Project is that each
constituency creates its own onboarding program. Since the beginning,
our goal has been to increase the number of NCUC voices participating
actively and expertly in the PDP Working Groups. With 3 PDP Working
Groups taking place simultaneously, NCUC members are spread thin and
yet many WG issues are important to noncommercial organizations and
noncommercial speech in gTLDs and DNS.

Louise and now Dina have jumped into the PDP WGs “with both feet,” and
many additional ICANN activities as well. The purpose of this email is
to share a brief overview of our work at ICANN61 – and share our
deepest thanks with you.

1    1.   Dina – PDP WGs

        Dina has joined both the Rights Protections Mechanisms PDP WG
and the Registration Directory Services PDP WG!  This is a huge
commitment, but she is “coming up to speed” rapidly. Louise has worked
with Dina – as one former newcomer to a current newcomer -- and we
find this structure works very well for helping newcomers feel
comfortable. Dina can ask Louise any and all questions – from
procedural to substantive – and Louise guides Dina through
introductory materials she has prepared and that we have prepared
together. I provide a broader historical view of our RPM work and the
issues that have concerned us in NCUC over the many years that we
worked on the UDRP and, more recently, the URS, Sunrise Period,
Trademark Claims and Trademark Clearinghouse for New gTLDs.

          2. Louise – PDP WGs

        Louise started in the Onboarding Program as a newcomer and is
now operating as an expert in the Rights Protections Mechanisms WG. In
the small group of NCUC members who participate regularly in the RPM
WG 90 minutes a week meetings, Louise is an active and reliable voice
for noncommercial issues and concerns. She is a wonderful voice for
due process – a fair and balanced process before domain names (and
their associated websites and email addresses) are yanked from
noncommercial organizations and their websites are taken down. Louise
has also joined the RDS PDP WG – sharing her thoughts and talents, and
our NCUC concerns. We are very fortunate to have her in both WGs.


3. Kathy - PDP WGs

I am a regular participant in all three PDP WGs (sympathies welcome!).
I have resumed regular attendance in the RDS PDP WG and attend
Subsequent Procedures WG Subteam 2 meetings (legal/regulatory issues).
I also co-chair the RPM PDP WG, as you know. In this capacity at
ICANN61, I was invited by the GNSO Council to join their discussion on
the future of the PDP process. In this important discussion, my work
in the Onboarding program made a big difference.

I found there is a deep concern in the GNSO Council of the large sizes
of the PDP WGs and a possible new direction towards smaller expert
groups for policy going forward (one of the ideas floated).  Louise,
Dina, Ayden, and all of you have taught me that new members are the
future of PDP WGs – the life blood. We simply can’t have the same “old
timers” writing and re-writing the policies. We need new members –
with their energy, insight, perspective, questions and concerns -- to
help us review our policies, understand their impact globally, assess
whether free expression and human rights are protected, and evaluate
changes need ahead. As I shared these thoughts, I saw many heads
nodding.



4.       Other activities at ICANN61 and beyond

 With multiple sessions of each PDP WG in San Juan (RPM WG had four
alone!), Dina and Louise were busy attending these sessions, and NCUC
and technical sessions as well. Dina was one of the only NCUC members
to attend the Privacy/Proxy Services Accreditation Implementation
Review Team, and there she spoke with a representative of the US
Department of Justice about non-commercial concerns regarding the
timing of release of a registrant’s private data. It is these informal
discussions that can often change a deeply-held perspective or provide
new nuances and sensitivity to a formerly-hardened point of view.

The NCUC Policy Course was a tremendous expansion of NCUC’s policy
work and I believe both Louise and Dina dropped by. I was very
fortunate to join this amazing group during the presentations of their
award certificates at the end, and had the opportunity to congratulate
them, welcome them, and thank them for this hard work at ICANN61 and
their active work ahead writing NCUC comments! We need their
incredible interest and energy – and I am happy and excited for this
amazing new group of NCUC comment writers and leaders!


Dina shared comment writing insights with the ICANN Fellows in an
early morning session she set up.  She expected only a few people to
attend, but 15 people came! She is planning another session for
ICANN62, with special attention for those interested in joining NCUC.
Together Louise and Dina, with Tomslin, recently released a draft
comment on ICANN’s Plan to Restart the Root Key Signing Key (KSK)
Rollover Process. Nothing could make a mentor prouder...

5. Our request

Louise, Dina and I would like to request one last meeting together as
NCUC’s Community Onboarding Team. We understand this is the last
Onboarding session (unless budgets change) and thus ICANN62 would wrap
up our work together. But it will not wrap our contributions to or on
behalf of NCUC. The goal of the Community Onboarding Program was to
produce active, expert and ongoing participation in PDP WGs. Our work
has only just begun!

Dina adds: “Onboarding provided me with a broad overview on ICANN and
an excellent mentor who knows how to approach things, how to be more
efficient when writing policy, and what is the best approach to go
about ICANN inner politics. I feel I have the support I need to be
involved.”

We are deeply honored to have been your team to the Community
Onboarding. Thank you for the opportunity to spend dedicated time
together, and with the larger Onboarding Program. We have learned from
them, and hopefully, other constituencies have learned from us and our
advocacy of NCUC and noncommercial concerns. We look forward to
working with you in the PDP WGs and other policy opportunities where
NCUC needs us – in evaluating, analyzing, researching, negotiating,
drafting and policies that protect our noncommercial organizations and
speech. Tx you so much for this amazing opportunity to work together
and to work with you!

Best regards,

Kathy