RE: [npoc-voice] NPOC membership consultation

[Amber Sterling <asterling@xxxxxxxx>]

Alain, as you have been participating on the JAS workgroup for many months now, 
I defer to your judgment.  If the statement reflects your sentiments about the 
workgroup then I support the comment.

Amber Sterling
Senior Intellectual Property Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges

From: owner-npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Alain Berranger
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:12 PM
To: npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [npoc-voice] NPOC membership consultation

Dear NPOC Colleagues,

Our Colleagues Debbie Hughes and Michael Carson are representing NPOC at 
current Dakar ICANN meetings.

This is an historic moment in our young Constituency's life: our first 
consultation! Please participate!

Would you please go over the proposed JAS (see paragraph below for acronym's 
meaning) support statement in email below to be issued in Dakar next Tuesday, 
and if you agree or if you have no objection, please respond to the mailing 
list. Your comments and suggestions most welcome of course!

As most NPOC members are new, here is a very quick review for your reference:

Please see http://newgtlds.icann.org/ for the latest on applying for a new 
generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) name.

The Joint SO/AC Working Group on New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS) was created 
to evaluate and propose recommendations regarding specific support to new gTLD 
applicants in justified cases. The final report is available at 
https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/22970578/Final_Report_JASWG+%28Sept+2011%29_Seth+created_Submitted.pdf.
 The JAS was very intent on making sure developing economies' applicants would 
be included in the support.

Alain Berranger, one of the undersigned, participated in the later stages of 
the JAS work and feels this support statement is amply justified.

Thanks for your response soonest!

Alain Berranger on behalf of
Your interim NPOC Executive Committee
Debbie Hughes, Founder and interim member
Amber Sterling, Chair (interim)
Alain Berranger, Vice-Chair (interim)
Klaus Stoll, Membership Committee Chair (interim) and NPOC Representative to 
NCSG Policy Committee
Michael Carson, NPOC Representative on NCSG Executive Committee (interim)
Judy Branzelle, NPOC Representative to NCSG Policy Committee (interim)

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From: Konstantinos Komaitis 
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Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] draft agenda for NCUC constituency day in Dakar!!
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Yeap - JAS will be briefly discussed at the NCUC constituency day and I would 
like to encourage NCUC members to endorse this statement. I would also like to 
encourage this statement to be submitted as an NCSG position - it is a very 
important issue and many hours have been logged on by both Rafik and Avri in 
order to make sure that support is provided to applicants from developing 
countries.

Thanks

KK

From: Rafik Dammak 
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:04:56 +0100
To: Konstantinos Komaitis 
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Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] draft agenda for NCUC constituency day in Dakar!!

Hi Konstantinos,

I would like to ask an item for the agenda regarding JAS, it will be topic for 
the public forum (and board is expected to make decision about the JAS final 
report). ALAC is planning to make statement too. thanks to Avri for works done 
on the proposed statement.

Rafik

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The NCUC wishes to congratulate the JAS WG on the recommendations it has made 
to enable the new gTLD program to become one that gives a fair chance to the 
developing world.  As the NCUC, we have been arguing for policies in support of 
fairness since the time when the new gTLD policy was first being discussed in 
the GNSO and have continued this by active participation in the JAS WG, 
including having members serve as the JAS WG co-chair.  We are heartened to see 
that this effort is now being championed by the GAC and the ALAC and want to 
once again lend our voice to the call for fairness.

We encourage the Board to approve all of the measures in the JAS report, and 
wish to single out a few that we believe need immediate approval and 
implementation.  Without question, the fee reduction as recommend in the JAS 
report, where all qualified development economy applicants pay a reduced fee of 
$47, 000 USD, is necessary if the new gTLD program is to be considered fair.  
Even charging development economy applicants $47,000 USD will be a challenge, 
but we understand the need for applicants to have some degree of financial 
stake in the application.  To require more would exclude these applicants from 
any chance of making an application in this round.  We accept the arguments as 
given in the JAS recommendations that making these fee reduction is consistent 
with the policy recommendation of the GNSO and accept the proposals offered in 
that document of ways in which the reserve fund portion of the collected fees 
and the expectation of auction funds can be used to satisfy the requirements 
for a self funding new gTLD application process

We also support the suggestion in the report, as well as suggestions made by 
others that the continuity instrument required by applicants need to be made 
more affordable for the development economy applicant.  The requirements in the 
current Application Guidebook, will be incredibly difficult for regular 
applicants would be a complete barrier to any applicant from a developing 
economy.  This needs immediate redress.

Finally we urge the Board to accept the proposal in the JAS recommendation for 
a Board organized working group to create an ICANN Foundation that would as its 
first goal be able to raise and distribute funds to assist developing economies 
in meeting the other expenses of creating registries to serve the populations 
of the world's developing economies.  We appreciate the seed funds offered by 
the ICANN Board and encourage those who have financially benefited so greatly 
from domain name industry and from their involvement with ICANN to contribute 
generously to build on this seed once the Foundation is created.  In the 
meantime we encourage all those who can, to publicly pledge to such a fund in 
anticipation of its creation.




2011/10/20 Konstantinos Komaitis 
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Dear all,

In preparation for the constituency day (Tuesday, October 25, 2011)in Dakar, 
find below a draft agenda. Please suggest topics and/or issues that you would 
like us to discuss during the NCUC meeting.

Thank you

KK

Proposed Agenda for NCUC


1.        Membership issues

2.       Policy issues (WHOIS, UDRP, Outreach Task Force WG, domain name 
takedowns etc.)

3.       Forthcoming NCUC elections (Chair and NCUC EC)

4.      Constituency relations

5.       Updates from NCUC Councillors

6.      Policy strategy and goals.

PS: I will be posting the dial in details in the website within the next few 
days.

Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,

Senior Lecturer,
Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses
Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law
University of Strathclyde,
The Law School,
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