Letter in Support of Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC)

["Winterfeldt, Brian" <bwinterfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mr. Beckstrom, Mr. Dengate-Thrush and the ICANN Board of Directors:

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the petition and charter 
of the prospective Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC).  I 
am a partner in the Intellectual Property Group of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, an 
international law firm.

I believe the petition for recognition of the NPOC as expressed in the proposed 
NPOC charter adequately explains how the NPOC will improve the ability of the 
GNSO to carry out its policy-development responsibilities. I believe the ICANN 
community will benefit from a new constituency that will robustly represent the 
non-commercial perspective of organizational registrants and organizational 
users of domain names.  Also, I believe the NPOC's outreach activities and 
outreach plan demonstrate how NPOC will provide a global voice for 
not-for-profit/NGOs within ICANN.

Therefore, I urge the ICANN Board to promptly recognize the Not-for-Profit 
Operational Concerns Constituency in accordance with Section 5(4) of Article X 
of the current ICANN Bylaws.

Respectfully submitted,

Brian J. Winterfeldt
Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Brian J. Winterfeldt, Esq.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
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