Agree, owe all the respect to the UASG leadership. UASG has done a huge work to help the deployment of EAI and IDN. UASG is a good platform. Let's protect and help UASG to move forward. Thanks the nice leadership of UASG. Sent from my phone ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------ 发件人: "Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila"<agalila@mcit.gov.eg>; 发送时间: 2019年2月24日(星期天) 上午6:15 收件人: "Elaine Pruis"<elainepruis@gmail.com>; 抄送: "ua-discuss@icann.org"<ua-discuss@icann.org>; 主题: Re: [UA-discuss] Call for Nominations Like it, I owe all the respect to the UASG leadership. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Elaine Pruis <elainepruis@gmail.com> wrote: It is also morning for me. And I must say I am very discouraged by the harsh criticism in the UASG emails. Four years ago there was NOTHING. Not one document. No outreach, not even a list of the problems. The leaders have put forward their best efforts. I challenge everyone complaining about UASG leadership to go through the meeting notes, annual reports, etc then write a list of everything accomplished, and hours volunteered. Also note which of those items you may have accomplished. Then I challenge you to make a plan for how YOU are going to fix the outstanding issues, since this is a volunteer effort. The world is harsh enough- we really don’t need this level of unsubstantiated negativity targeted at a small group of people doing their best to work on A Very Big Problem. Elaine On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 3:49 AM Jae Moon <jae_moon@outlook.com> wrote: Hi Alexey Thought provoking mail early morning, it truly wakening to me. So true, in last four years we never assessed that the contribution of every individual holding positions of Chair and Vice Chairs in UA administrative group were completely unsuccessful to do any justice with the position as their own organizations have not shown any positive move towards UA adoption, it extremely force me to believe that we were having a very week leadership of UASG. If we would have strong leaders with vision, creativity and, most importantly, the ability to influence others to support them in the challenges of moving an organisation into unchartered territory they would have not failed in this mission internally atleast. I do agree that present members of UA administrative group fail to stand behind those decisions after they have already been made by them. A good leadership keeps an open mind, considers all different points of view, and makes decisions with confidence. Hesitation and second-guessing only lead to a lack of support from followers and ultimate failure which is visible in whatever has happened in UASG in last four years. I second everything you mentioned in your email and will be open to give chance this time to completely new team who can commit to achieve UASG mission, the reason we learn about history in school is so that we don’t repeat the mistakes from our pasts. Of course, we must know and understand how and why we made these mistakes to avoid making the same ones in the future. Greetings Jae Moon From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Alexey Golikova via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 3:25 PM To: ua-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Call for Nominations All, The mission for the UASG was always been to support the concept that all domain names should be treated equally and has evolved to include email addresses (including Email Address Internationalization). Inspite of the extensive support of ICANN and so qualified experts engaged from past four years in UASG we were still not able to achieve the desired awareness and documentations which would have helped adoption of UA, IDN’s and EAI. Available information and documents on uasg.tech do not address all open questions and the effort does not reflect a “mission accomplished.” Infact the efforts and deliverables to date from the existing administrative group is not at all visible. As a matter of great surprise the members of existing administrative group even failed to make their own businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready till date with is decidedly discouraging for the community and have great question mark on their leadership, dedication and focus for UA. I individually believes that if there will be no change of individuals in existing administrative group and people just swap the positions for namesake then I seriously don’t see that anything will change in UASG approach to promote the development and adoption of recommended practices and deployable assets that will enable the currently excluded ones to get online and experience the wealth of opportunity that a natively accessible internet can provide. What I as members of UASG community expect from new administrative group: They must lead with example and make clear Commitment to make their own businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready without any more delay. Effectively impart the value and potential benefits of adopting UA outside of a small set of engaged providers and must have a help/support available for them. Dedicate their team and official’s to advocate the concepts of UA and encourage its adoption widely in every region. Dedicate their complete focus on IDN and EAI. These are very important efforts within the UA agenda and should get substantial resources / industry experts for its further expansion of supporting technologies. Develop meaningful materials to provide quality guidance for implementers and solution providers. Use UASG funds wisely in outreach, communications and awareness component of IDNs, EAI, which has completely lacked over the past four years. I suggest everyone in the group must genuinely think and then support any individual for any position chair/vice-chairs, there is no impairment if we seriously think to have a very strong dedicated and focused individuals now in the administrative group so that what we were unable to achieve in last four years do not happen again. What we should consider is to give chance to those strong think tanks who can help internet community on bringing the mission of Universal Acceptance to a strong and successful result. Four years period is not small period which we have given to existing individuals presently involved in administrative group and we are still nowhere. Sincerely, Alexey Chief of Information & Technology From: Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> To: "ua-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] Call for Nominations Date: 20 Feb 2019 09:22:45 AM Elections for UASG Chair and Vice-Chair – 2019 The UASG is having elections for the Chair and Vice Chair. Here’s the process. NB: All times are 23:00 UTC Nominations This is a call for nominations. Anyone subscribed to the UA-discuss@icann.org mailing list is eligible to stand. Nominations (including self-nominations) should be sent to info@uasg.techand should include: the name of the person nominated the position(s) for which they are nominated contact details for the person nominated. This should include an email address and a telephone number. The election administrator will verify that the nominated person accepts the nomination. Once the nomination deadline has passed on February 27 2019 a list of candidates will be prepared showing name, email address, photo and candidate statement. Names will be shown by position in alphabetical order of surnames. Candidates can be nominated for Chair, Vice-Chair or both. Relevant links: Position Description-Chair https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07-Position-Description-Chair-U... Position Description-Vice-Chair https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07-Position-Description-Vice-Ch... Other documents of interest may be found at www.uasg.tech/documents Voting Voting will be done using www.opavote.com For the Chair the method used will be Instant Runoff Voting https://www.opavote.com/methods/instant-runoff-voting For the Vice-Chair the method used will be Scottish STV https://www.opavote.com/methods/single-transferable-vote#scottish-stv These voting methods allow voters to rank their choices. Voting will open on March 3, 2019 and close on March 10, 2019. Decisions will be announced as soon as they are ready and have been verified. Don Hollander Secretary General – UASG Skype: Don_Hollander