[ALAC] [CCWG-ACCT] CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Plenary-20180228- Documents

[Alan Greenberg]

I will not be able to attend the CCWT-ACCT Plenary on 28 February 
2018. Please ensure that this message is either read into the record 
or otherwise considered during the deliberations on Diversity.

I note that the Diversity Recommendations being considered do not 
include one to create an ICANN Office of Diversity (OoD).

There was an extensive discussion on diversity and an OoD within the 
ALAC over the past weeks. As one might expect from such a regionally 
based organization, the ALAC strongly supports diversity in all of 
its forms, and to say we are (collectively) passionate about 
diversity does not fully convey our feelings.

However, every person who contributed to the discussion (and that was 
a majority of ALAC members and other community leaders) felt that 
there is no need for an OoD, and to create one would needlessly 
increase bureaucracy and cost without any real benefit. There was 
support for ICANN organization to consider diversity among its staff 
but that should be handled within Human Resources.

In summary, the ALAC would not support creating an OoD.

Alan Greenberg
CCWG-ACCT Member and Chair, ALAC