<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Hello to all. IMHO, an aspect that seems absent from this discussion is the possibility of professional facilitation in thorny issues, to the extent compatible with MSM.</span></div><div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; word-spacing: 1px;"><br></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" style="font-size: 1rem; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; word-spacing: 1px;">This idea might go a bit against the grain in terms of community self-governance which cannot be underestimated, but there are profesional entities out there that are experts in getting diverse and even enemy groups to sit down and negotiate (from peace / reconciliation agreements among guerrillas and states, to more run of the mill, less bellicose disagreements). I’ve seen these entities in action (I remember one called REOS Partners <div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" style="font-size: 1rem;"><a href="https://reospartners.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://reospartners.com/&source=gmail&ust=1596208671810000&usg=AFQjCNGZ8phBVORX0s7bZv6OQDGPf1YaJQ" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" style="color: rgb(66, 133, 244); font-size: 1rem;">https://reospartners.com/</a>) and I believe these professional approaches could help a contentious working group be more purposeful, efficient and effective-Maybe pack months of work into a few days. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" style="font-size: 1rem;">If this notion is seen completely out of the ICANN <span style="font-size: 1rem;">MSM self-governance comfort zone, perhaps one of these professional organizations could help train ICANN community volunteer/leaders and perhaps also ICANN staff, on these communication and consensus building techniques. ICANN org would get great ‘bang for the buck’ in investments such as these, which would both enhance participation and speed-up processes in WGs & PDPs.</span></div></div><br><div dir="ltr">Javier Rúa-Jovet<div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+1-787-396-6511</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">twitter: @javrua</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">skype: javier.rua1</span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua</a> </font></div><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 30, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Evin Erdogdu <evin.erdogdu@icann.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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