[Advisors] CIRA elections -- no my turn this time

[Marita Moll]

That is true Peter. Both Brian Beaton and Kerry Brown are on the 
community investment fund evaluation committee. I forgot to mention 
Kerry in my last e-mail, but yes, that's two evaluators on the team who 
will be looking at applications from a community networking perspective.

Something most people here don't know (it took me by surprise!) is that 
CIRA directors have to sign a non-disclosure agreement -- so no 
information flows out of board meetings at all. Minutes are vague. It is 
pretty much of a black box. Some people have tried unsuccessfully to 
bring some openness. But it would take a major bottom up effort coming 
from members to change that. There sure was not any movement in that 
direction during my term.

ICANN, on the other hand, could not be more open. Absolutely everything 
is on the public record and all meetings are open. So, you will be 
hearing from me about what is going on there.  I will be attending the 
ICANN AGM in Barcelona which starts on Oct. 20. Much of the discussion 
is quite esoteric and technical but there are some areas that are easy 
to relate to -- for example current  rounds of discussions about 
geonames at the top level -- whether or not some categories of names 
should be protected in the next round of new gTLDs (generic top level 
domains -- .com, .biz, .berlin, etc.). Mind you, everything takes a long 
time. The dispute about who gets to control .amazon (amazon the company 
or the group of 8 countries through which this river flows) is still not 
settled.

Stay tuned

Marita


On 10/9/2018 6:23 PM, Peter Frampton wrote:
> you probably deserve the break!  so good news for you
> not so great for “us”
> :-)
>
> but we have many ways to keep an eye on them!
>
>
>
> Peter Frampton
> pframpton at lefca.org <mailto:pframpton at lefca.org>
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>> On Oct 7, 2018, at 12:12 PM, Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net 
>> <mailto:mmoll at ca.inter.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to everyone here for their support for my candidacy during the 
>> CIRA elections. It was not my turn this time -- and one always has to 
>> expect such surprises with elections.  I will continue to do whatever 
>> I can to raise the profile on communities online in whatever fora I 
>> am engaged in. For the next year, it will be through my position on 
>> the At-large council at ICANN and the steering committee for the 
>> Canadian Internet Governance Forum.
>>
>> One of our colleagues, Brian Beaton, is currently on the CIRA 
>> community investment fund evaluation team. And I know Brian will keep 
>> reminding everyone that communities have many needs that are 
>> sometimes not apparent to those who sit around these tables.
>>
>> Marita
>>
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