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

Mon Mar 26 17:11:40 CEST 2018

Thank you Louise for clarifying everything, its really good to hear back
from our Onboarding team and its a pity that the program wont be continued
for the upcoming FY.  Speaking from a newcomer's point of view here the
Onboarding material and emails that were sent a while ago were all very
valuable for me while joining NCUC and I hope our constituency could keep
up with the good work, even without the program.

I wish this team the best in ICANN62, and for us to keep on working
together.

Best,
B.

2018-03-26 12:03 GMT-03:00 Elsa S <elsa.saade at gmail.com>:

> 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
> --
>
> 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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