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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I have to say that I am personally going to sign it, as I am
part of ICANN fellows. I am not sure that EURALO should sign this petition, but
should have position if and what should be cut.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I do not know how many of You knows that first fellow jus become
member of ICANN board, on ICANN conference in Copenhagen most of discussions,
questions at open meetings with ICANN board were created by ICANN fellows. On
my first ICANN conference in Nairobi, there were lot of criticisms among experienced
ICANN participants. So new energy comes from fellows. ALAC, EURALO and GNSO
were trying to find new members among fellows, where are they (or we) going to
find supporters now?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>On the other hand I am not surprised that this cut has happened.
On the conference in Johannesburg I made a question to ICANN staff (do not
remember name but responsible person for creating budget plan for 2017.), how
many income comes from endusers. Nobody answered, after a session one of ICANN
registrar owner told me “ Zero”, it is the same answer like all registrars are
talking around the world, whole income to registries comes from registrars.
Until this opinion is valid and main, situation will be the same. And nobody
did not request to get the answer, although the first statement You can hear on
ICANN meeting is that everybody has right to make question and has to get the
answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>ALAC and RALOs are established and works in according with ICANN
policies, until internet users do not have independent organization, the
situation will be the same. So, if ICANN will be the organization of registries
and registrars, fellows and endusers will never have decent position there in
spite of fact that one fellow become the member of ICANN board. ICANN will be
corporation, just like “C” stand in the shortage. So before I register some
domain name, I am going to calculate a lot if I really need it as registrars do
not respect me at all. And I am not surprise if domain names business continue
to slow down. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Nenad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> EURO-Discuss
[mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stéphane
Van Gelder - Milathan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 21, 2018 22:15<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrei Kolesnikov; Discussion for At-Large Europe; Olivier MJ
Crepin-Leblond<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EURO-Discuss] Should EURALO sign a petition? Should you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Completely agree with Andrei. I oppose the signing of a
petition to oppose cuts. I would add to his reasons the fact that the Board
Chair and the CEO have both laid down extremely well articulated arguments for
why budget cuts are needed. I would worry that a EURALO response through a
petition would not only look political, it would look immature.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>If we have strong arguments as to why some cuts should not
happen, let’s produce them through the usual ICANN discussion channels open to
us.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Stéphane <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 21 Feb 2018, at 21:24, Andrei Kolesnikov <<a
href="mailto:andrei@rol.ru">andrei@rol.ru</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm against signing any petition on <a
href="http://change.org/">change.org</a>, because it sounds political. If
community is against the cut, this must be articulated with facts,
numbers and names. I don't like personnel cost increase, but this is another
issue. --andrei<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2018-02-21 20:06 GMT+03:00 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <<a
href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank">ocl@gih.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear colleagues,<br>
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on yesterday's EURALO monthly call, the following Action Item was recorded.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="https://community.icann.org/display/%7Eolivier.crepin-leblond"
target="_blank">Olivier Crepin-Leblond</a> Olivier to follow up on the
EURALO mailing list on the suggestion from Oksana for EURALO support the
petition against reduction of the ICANN fellowship as well as to write an
EURALO statement against the CROP elimination.<o:p></o:p></p>
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As you know, the ICANN FY19 budget is undergoing to reduction. This will mean
that some programmes are frozen, whilst others are actually reduced. The
current draft of the program is showing drastic cuts in community engagement
and policy. The Fellowship is being slashed, and so is the NextGen program. The
Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROP) which was confirmed into the
main budget as it was seen as being so helpful, is being cancelled altogether.
It is a terrible state of affairs, as it appears that ICANN has targeted
community initiatives for outreach and engagement to a much greater extent that
other programmes and the cuts, as a percentage of the budget for outreach and
engagement initiatives are way larger than for other programmes.<br>
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You might has seen a petition out there, entitled "Stop the ICANN Budget
Cuts and Save the Fellowship Program!"<br>
On last night's EURALO call, Oksana Prykhodko asked whether EURALO could be
inclined to sign this petition:<br>
<a
href="https://www.change.org/p/icann-stop-the-icann-budget-cuts-and-save-the-fellowship-program"
target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/icann-stop-the-icann-budget-cuts-and-save-the-fellowship-program</a><br>
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The signing of a petition is highly unusual for a RALO. I can recall several
occurrences of a RALO releasing its own Statement. I can also recall EURALO
supporting EuroDIG as a partner - and this translates to the EURALO Chair
(previously Wolf Ludwig and now yours truly) being active in the organisation
of EuroDIG. If my memory serves me right, the only time EURALO has signed a
Petition, might be the signature for support of NetMundial outcomes. Perhaps
can Wolf help with other potential occurences?<br>
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At the end of the day, there are no rules on whether EURALO may or may not sign
this petition. So the decision is in your hands, the EURALO members. <br>
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Should EURALO sign the petition?<br>
Should your ALS sign the petition? <br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond<br>
EURALO Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Andrey Kolesnikov<o:p></o:p></p>
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