While I do agree with the initiative as a whole, I remain concerned about further fragmenting the group by generating more mailing lists and parallel calls. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website] Representing businesses in IG together with AR-TARC and ABES On 19/07/2019 03:08, Sarmad Hussain wrote:

Dear all,

Based on the UASG’s FY20 Action Plan <https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/UASG-FY20-Action-Plan.pdf>, please find attached the draft charter for the Local Initiatives for your review and feedback.

You are requested to share comments on ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> email distribution list by 31 July, 2019.

Regards, Sarmad

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Dear Sarmad - and all, Kudos for the initiative. I personally believe that we need to promote local initiatives. This said, I wonder whether a formal charter so detailed will address best the need of getting more input from the local communities. Let’s put aside for the moment some objections on whether “one size fits all” and therefore whether a formally centralised decided charter will be the best option, and go to some o the practical aspects. I have no idea on what is the (geographical) size of the local initiative that is envisaged by this proposal. Are we talking about regions like “Middle East” or “Latin America”, or are we narrowing down to “South Caucasus” or even language minorities? In the former case, it might become a formal ratification of what can already exist - maybe using the ICANN regions as a model - but like almost every formalisation of the existent will not add anything that is really creating new opportunities. The latter case would be more interesting by far. But in this case, are we sure that a local, motivated and enthusiastic but resources-limited, community could comply with a charter like this? Maybe there are not enough local developers or experts, considering the detail of the required roles? My personal opinion - but I don’t want to get into philosophy - is that while the local communities can be by far our best option to identify the problems and the issues that have local impact due to the local specificity, the technical solution might best be addressed by a wide collaboration by technical experts. In simple words, the technical solution to an issue manifesting itself in Latin America can come from an expert living in SE-Asia. However, I might have missed some points in the initiative - in this case I would appreciate feedback helping me understand better. Cheers, Roberto On 19.07.2019, at 08:08, Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain@icann.org<mailto:sarmad.hussain@icann.org>> wrote: Dear all, Based on the UASG’s FY20 Action Plan<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/UASG-FY20-Action-Plan.pdf>, please find attached the draft charter for the Local Initiatives for your review and feedback. You are requested to share comments on ua-discuss@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> email distribution list by 31 July, 2019. Regards, Sarmad <UASG Local Initiative - Charter 20190719.pdf> _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.