Hi John: Can you provide the list of interviewees and which, if any, have replied to your email in the negative or positive? Also, are you available for a call at the end of your business day? I have some obligation this morning. Thx & regards, Kurt On 10 Sep 2025, at 3:08 am, John Emery via Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org> wrote: Hello All, In the interests of time and the impending deadline, we would suggest the following: (1) We update the report with the names included per your request, as we received no objections from interview participants (2) When the report is finalized, we transmit to Council, and support staff (or you, if you prefer to do so in your capacity as Small Team Lead) can send individual emails to the interviewees with a link to the report and note that their names are included in the participant list only (as noted in the email sent to them on 25 August, and attached below). Within these emails, we can let the interviewees know that if there is an objection to their names being included in the report, they can let us know, and we can post an updated report with their name removed. In the past, we have not a had a good response rate with doodle polls and other participation-related emails, so we are trying to strike a balance between publishing the report and allowing for those who object to the inclusion of the name in a participant list to have their name removed. Email sent to interviewees on 25 August: Thank you for your participation in the GNSO Board Readiness Small Team interview process. The Small Team is preparing its final report for presentation for the GNSO Council at the 18 September Council meeting. I am reaching out to remind you that neither the recordings nor the notes from your interviews will be shared to maintain privacy and anonymity. Currently, your name and the eighteen additional interviewees will be listed in the report as participants in the interview process to acknowledge your time and participation in Small Team project. If you would like your name redacted from the report participants and the Small Team wiki page, please notify me by replying to this email by Tuesday 2 September 2025. If you are fine with your name being included with the list of interviewees, no action is necessary. Please let me know how we would like to proceed, John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/> From: "kurt kjpritz.com<http://kjpritz.com/>" <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>> Date: Monday, September 8, 2025 at 15:09 To: John Emery <john.emery@icann.org<mailto:john.emery@icann.org>> Cc: Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann@gmail.com<mailto:justine.chew.icann@gmail.com>>, "gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>" <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [Ext] [Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam] Re: Final Report: Review by EOB Monday 8 September Hi John: What is the status of the interviewee responses? Are there some that we team members could reach out to personally? I closed off Justine’s questions. So I think we are good to go. I’d like to read the final doc before posting one more time. Please let me know when it is ready. Thanks everyone and best regards, Kurt On 9 Sep 2025, at 2:29 am, John Emery <john.emery@icann.org<mailto:john.emery@icann.org>> wrote: Hello All, Thank you, Justine, for the edits. I have accepted the grammatical changes throughout the document. There are a few open queries and wording changes if people could please take a brief look today (or tomorrow at the latest) so we can finalize the report. I will let you know once it is finalized, so everyone can give it one final look before we publish it for the upcoming Council meeting. All the best, John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/> From: Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann@gmail.com<mailto:justine.chew.icann@gmail.com>> Date: Monday, September 8, 2025 at 07:18 To: "kurt kjpritz.com [kjpritz.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/kjpritz.com/__;!!PtGJab4!5Bg_tVLWT23ZDXUG2...>" <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>>, John Emery <john.emery@icann.org<mailto:john.emery@icann.org>> Cc: "gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>" <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> Subject: [Ext] Re: [Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam] Re: Final Report: Review by EOB Monday 8 September Hi Kurt, Hi John, Nice work! I made some comments and suggested edits for consideration -- some point to phrases / words which I thought could be improved. Kind regards, Justine On Mon, 8 Sept 2025 at 10:12, kurt kjpritz.com [kjpritz.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/kjpritz.com__;!!PtGJab4!4tpIz2PXc7ZcbDpYD5...> via Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> wrote: Hi Prudence: Thanks for sending your comments in this format. Allows you to set up the reasoning with the proposed change. Regarding: 3.1 General Findings I’ll let the comments stand on their own with a neutral introduction. I did do a little survey of sorts and my kids all thought the statements were contradictory. I understand how the first comments points to the back and forth with the Board and the second focusses on the rejection only, but that is a fine parsing: I think the first comment is “rejection fine" and the second is “rejection bad.” Nonetheless, it’s probably better for us to let the reader arrive at her/his own conclusions. Regarding: 3.2 Board Liaison Role I certainly don’t want the reader to entertain the possibility that the Board might be pursuing its own agenda, rather than being responsive to that of the community’s. So good suggestion there. Thanks again for your thoughts here. Kurt On 5 Sep 2025, at 10:59 pm, Prudence Malinki via Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> wrote: Hi Kurt and John and everyone, I’m just going through the document (which looks great). Instead of adding notes I’ve just got a couple of comments (literally only 2) that I will post here. Due to time zones and schedules, I’m not sure how practical, or necessary, it is to jump on a call. Please see below: 3.1 General Findings * During our last meeting we agreed that the wording of “contradictory” in the third paragraph would be amended as it wasn’t directly contradictory with several small team members suggesting edits to the wording. I can see the addition of the term “somewhat” but that appears to be the only change. Can we still edit this as previously discussed? 3.2 Board Liaison Role * In the 3rd paragraph, there is a reference to the phrase “putting the finger on the scale” can we please consider revising this. This phrase has connotations and associations with dishonesty and cheating, which I’m not sure is what you’re wanting to convey, if we are wanting to state “unduly influence” as a team we should just be transparent and say the thing. Other than that- looks brilliant- thank you for putting this together. As always let me know your thoughts. Kind Regards, Prudence Malinki Head of Industry Relations, Markmonitor Skype: Malinkip T +44 207 433 4869 Time zone: GMT/BST <image001.png> From: kurt kjpritz.com [kjpritz.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/kjpritz.com/__;!!PtGJab4!4tpIz2PXc7ZcbDpYD...> via Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> Sent: 05 September 2025 01:35 To: John Emery via Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> Cc: John Emery <john.emery@icann.org<mailto:john.emery@icann.org>>; kurt kjpritz.com [kjpritz.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/kjpritz.com/__;!!PtGJab4!4tpIz2PXc7ZcbDpYD...> <kurt@kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com>> Subject: [Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam] Re: Final Report: Review by EOB Monday 8 September [CAUTION External Email] Hi Everyone: If you want to chat about any aspects - where a brief conversation would be more effective to explain suggested changes - I am available Friday and through the weekend. For a quick response, send me a text or WhatsApp or Telegram to +1-310-400-4184. I can also respond to email questions. Standing by, Kurt On 4 Sep 2025, at 9:20 am, John Emery via Gnso-board-readiness-smallteam <gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org<mailto:gnso-board-readiness-smallteam@icann.org>> wrote: Hello Board Readiness Small Team, I just got off a call with Kurt and we have put the final draft of the report into the proper format in a combined google doc. Given the tight timeframe prior to the GNSO Council meeting on 18 September, we ask that you keep comments to substantive issues or egregious spelling/grammar errors. Stylistic changes should be left alone in favor of the big picture question of: IIs the report conveying the findings accurately in a clear manner? Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fpNCtSPIqA2HSdsagZk_U_Fl7vqvbakv/edit?us... [docs.google.com]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1fpNCtSPIqA2HS...> Please complete your comments by your time zone EOB Monday 8 September Thank you for your comments, John R. 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