Disagree

["Elisabeth Porteneuve" <elisabeth.porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I respectfully disagree.



The whole issue of geographic regions is about cultural diversity, to ensure 
that policies decisions within ICANN and its SOs or ACs are taken by people 
who have different mother tongue, different logic of life related to 
precisely mother's tongue, different friends and enemies, and who understand 
the world from different angles of perception. Those selected people are put 
together, make efforts to speak the common language English (and foreign for 
majority of them), debate, weight, compare, and take decisions. The global 
ICANN is precisely all about it.
In the global world it's common to travel all over the world, and spent here 
and there a couple of months. You can find in every country of the world 
citizens of the US, China, UK, France, Spain, Japan, Germany and all others. 
All big US universities have students from all countries of the world. All 
big cities have residents and taxpayers (with the exception of fiscal 
paradises) from all over the world.
The immigration fact of this beginning of XXI century it's very easy to 
change residency, and it's very difficult to change citizenship.
The criteria of residency could permit to the Nominating Committee to forget 
about geographic and cultural diversity - it's trivial to take only native 
English speakers from 192 countries of the whole world, or only native 
Spanish speakers, Arabic, or Chinese, or French.
The Nominating Committee work is difficult, and it must remain difficult - 
those people are replacement for universal representation or global 
elections. The composition of the Nominating Committee itself is not neutral 
by the very nature of ICANN's components. You do not need to give to that 
group the possibility to escape the duty and effort to search for cultural 
diversity. If the Nominating Committee is not itself diverse enough, and is 
not comfortable to face diverse people, I would rather suggest to fix its 
composition, instead that give them means to further isolate from diverse 
cultures.


Elisabeth Porteneuve