[NCUC-EC] ICANN 79 NCUC Issue Forum 3

[Kathy Kleiman]

  Hi Benjamin,

I appreciate the invitation, and am glad we could celebrate NCUC's 
Anniversary in such a thought-provoking and collective way. Milton and 
Farzi led the way; you and I helped, as I am sure did others.  Andrea 
was very helpful too.

What made the NCUC Issues Forum special to me is that it was "not the 
usual," and not something we do every day.  People came because we asked 
them and to celebrate NCUC and our history. It took huge amounts of time 
and planning for Milton, for Farzi, for me, and for you, and for those 
joined us.

It's a huge amount of time and thought, and I am tired. I also need to 
see the fruits of the extraordinary labor - within NCUC. I really think 
we need to be dividing the regular/significant policy work of ICANN 
among NCUC members - e.g., everyone with a travel grant from NCUC should 
be dividing up the important meetings of ICANN (together and ahead of 
time), figuring out what NCUC issues/concerns are involved in these 
(policy) meetings, working to insert these issues/concerns into the 
meeting via writing or discussion (e.g, during Q&A), and reporting back 
to the full NCUC in an oral presentation (e.g, at our NCUC meeting 
*/with a few slides /*to teach others the issue and acronyms in a visual 
as well as oral way) and short written summary (just a few paragraphs) 
of what happened at that meeting and how NCUC should follow-up. /*That 
would be a positive, collective, important product for NCUC as we come 
out of our Anniversary year.  We could have eyes and ears everywhere and 
be involved in every issue important to us. */

This set of NCUC eyes and ears are tired, and a little discouraged.  I 
must respectfully decline.

Wishing you and everyone on the Exec Committee very Happy Holidays.

Kathy

On 12/4/2023 6:04 PM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje wrote:
>
> Dear Kathy and Milton:
>
> On behalf of the entire NCUC Executive Committee and membership, I 
> would like to thank you both for all your efforts to create and 
> deliver the NCUC Issue Forums at ICANN77 and ICANN78. At our executive 
> committee meeting this week the EC agreed that both events were 
> extremely successful and we would like to continue to bring 
> interesting issues and perspectives to future ICANN meetings with this 
> format.
>
> As we begin to plan for the next NCUC Issue Forum at ICANN79, and 
> while we in the EC do not wish to impose further, we recognize that we 
> will benefit from your assistance to carry these events further on our 
> own. Specifically, we look forward to working with both of you to help 
> us identify suitable topics that you believe are useful to cover as 
> well as specialists that the EC can call upon to participate as panel 
> members and speakers.
>
> The EC and I are prepared to assume the burden of planning these 
> events, but your experience and insight would be helpful. We welcome 
> any ideas or thoughts you can share on topics to cover and speakers to 
> invite. In addition, in the coming weeks, I will begin the planning 
> process with a message to the “Discuss” list calling for topics and 
> speakers. Your contributions to that discussion would also be most 
> welcome.
>
> Thank you both again and I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Benjamin
>
-- 
Kathy Kleiman
President, Domain Name Rights Coalition
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