I would like to propose the addition of some wording regarding diversity among businesses, somewhat in answer to Point 2 that Andrew made.

Something along these lines:

It is the belief of the BC that businesses of all sizes and specialties are affected by ICANN's policies and the consequences that those carry for their online presence. In that sense, we would like to reinforce the idea that not only is it important to have diversity of stakeholders, but also to find a broader sense of diversity within those groups. As far as commercial users are concerned, the involvement of SMEs along with large corporations and class entities is vital to gather a variety of views that can come close to reflecting a shared set of values that can be called global and beneficial to businesspeople around the world. It is our desire to keep on increasing our collaboration with the ICANN organization to reach these actors, and to continually become more representative of the many ventures we speak for.

Just my 2 cents.

Best,

- Mark

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:18 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:

I agree with Jimson's draft and Marilyns edits, including adding the initial BC response as background document. Regarding the recommendations for staff support in compiling diversity reports probably ICANN could appoint a specific person to be in charge of the coordination (a kind of Diversity Officer)? If I think of something else I will add even if we have opened it up to the membership.

KInd Regards,
Waudo

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017, at 12:08 AM, Marilyn Cade wrote:

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

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