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

Mon Mar 26 17:03:41 CEST 2018

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!

Best,

Elsa
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:52 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---------------
>
>
>
>
> ---------- 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
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Elsa Saade
Consultant
Gulf Centre for Human Rights
Twitter: @Elsa_Saade
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