Happy to read this to the record On Feb 28, 2018 07:35, "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community