WITH APOLOGIES, IF I LEFT ANYONE OFF WHO VOLUNTEERED TO COMMENT:

Dear BC colleagues

Thanks for Jimson for kicking off comments, and to Steve for also providing the link to the initial BC comments, which I think are still quite relevant.

I worked from Jimson's initial comments, and provided some additional comments. I haven't seen comments from other BC volunteers, but apologize if I missed any such comments.

I also include [with thanks to Steve for the reminder] the initial response of the BC, which many of us contributed to, at that time here as a link, and suggest we may want to add it as a background comment:

BC response to CCWG-Accountabillity WS2 Questions on Diversity

As Steve has noted,

we are running late on this submission.

My comments added to Jimson's key points do the following: first, endorse and support the recommendations, and then:

-note that ICANN will need to be pragmatic about its commitment to translation and interpretation, but may need to do

more when translation is about the IANA functions.

-noting that the BC does a lot already but that human and financial resources are limitations to making information available in all UN official languages/and beyond.

-diversity is also about enabling participation from different sub regions/regions in events that ICANN organizes, or that are related to ICANN, where ICANN is participating

All BC member comments are welcomed, of course, and with apologies, as a volunteer to drafting,if you can provide them within the next 24 hours, we will still be late, but we can then send out to all BC members.

I suspect we all are just overwhelmed with other work, but special thanks again to Steve and and Jimson.

Marilyn

From: Marilyn Cade <marilynscade@hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 3:46 PM
To: Marilyn Cade
Subject: edits to Diversity comments