Support for Noncommercial Stakeholder Group

[Hans Klein <hans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Sirs/Madams:

ICANN should honor and uphold the charter for a Noncommercial 
Stakeholder Group (NCSG) that was drafted by civil society.  This was 
developed in a consensus process and submitted by NCUC in 
March.  This document has been and supported by more than 80 
noncommercial organizations and individuals.
ICANN should immediately drop its attempt to impose is staff-drafted 
plan.  That plan would imposed the "silo" charter model and would 
effectively strangle civil society and render it ineffective in 
policy development.
The world is watching and expecting ICANN to live up to its promises 
of bottom-up processes, accountability, and democracy.
Hans Klein
Internet Governance Project
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, USA