Don Hollander

Secretary General – UASG

The UASG rumored to appoint Universal Acceptance Ambassadors with unblemished apparition that they will be well respected articulate industry leaders and who will be encouraged and supported to raise the issues of UA and EAI within their respective spheres to our target audience of developers and CIOs.

As per Help Wanted: UASG Ambassador Program

The selection criteria will include experience, understanding of UA & EAI, standing in their respective communities, and the clear ability to raise awareness. The selectors will also consider collective diversity of ambassadors. The designation of UA Ambassador will be for a period of twelve months and will be renewable as a decision of the UA Coordination Group. UA Ambassadors are expected to provide quarterly reports to the UASG on activities and results.

Disputes and distresses:

  1. The selection process was against ICANN principles, completely non-transparent, no feedback was taken before making any appointment from community.
  2. Apparition was that candidates will be well respected articulate industry leaders, however partialities and medley was been done by selecting incompetent personally known persons.
  3. Selected UA Ambassadors were expected to provide quarterly reports to the UASG on activities and results, shockingly nothing such was provided and published or shared with community on UA Discuss mailing list.
  4. Inspite of Serious charges against few UA ambassadors of Asia region in ICANN63 public forum, F2F and other occasions no action was taken, it is a disclosure of unexpected working of present UASG charter in Ram Mohan leadership.

Concerns and Recommendations:

Unlike all other positions in UASG where selection is done by community such significant positions were been left in hand of few peoples who have appointed there favorite contenders without corroborating their reputations, IT Industry knowledge, what they can delivery and contribute. Candidates with hardly any experience in IT industry were been made UA ambassadors who just leverage this position as fun and community members have put serious objections and criticisms against them. As the original period of 12 months is already concluded now, hence it is recommended that selection of UA ambassadors from every region must be done again in an appropriate genuine way. UASG must have assessable prerequisite and qualifying criteria for candidates who can apply for this position along with UASG expectations and deliveries desired from them. All current UA Ambassadors against whom there was any complain from community must be expelled from applying again.  Will be virtuous if appointment of these UA ambassadors can be done before ICANN64 Kobe if not then contemporary UA Ambassadors should be suspended till next appointments.

In conviction and faith that my Concerns and Recommendations will be taken in progressive reminder and UASG charter will act upon it prudently.  Auxiliary an element dialog on this can transpire in imminent ICANN64 Kobe meetings and public forums.

Thanks a lot

Richard Marson