[npoc-voice] Action Needed: NPOC comments on applicant support

[Amber Sterling <asterling@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Thank you for a great call this afternoon!

Urgent - Comment Period
ICANN re-opened the new gTLD Applicant Support Financial Assistance Program for 
public comment, which closes tonight.  Community members are frustrated with 
this program as we are 2 days before the launch of the new gTLD program and the 
criteria to apply and qualify for financial support are still unwritten making 
the already limited financial support available, unusable.

I propose that NPOC join with the public comments made by the At-Large New gTLD 
Working Group on the draft Applicant Support Program (previously known as JAS). 
 The comments may be viewed here: 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/new-gtld-applicant-support-handbook/msg00007.html. 
 NPOC also signed on with the public comments made by JAS on this topic during 
the Dakar meeting in October 2011.

If you have any objections to the NPOC signing on to the At-Large comments 
please let the list know as soon as possible.  I plan to submit a short 
statement tomorrow morning in support of the At-Large comments with the proviso 
that NPOC strives to represent the majority view and that the comments may not 
represent a specific NPOC member.

Administrative Matters

*         NCSG (the umbrella stakeholder group) is hosting its policy call on 
Monday, January 16th at 20:00 UTC.  The announcement and dialing information is 
attached.

*         NPOC calls will continue on the second Tuesday of each month at 4pm 
EST (currently 21:00 UTC) for the 2012 calendar year.  Please mark your 
calendars!  The next NPOC call will be held on Tuesday, February 7th at 21:00 
UTC.

Kind regards,
Amber

Amber Sterling
Senior Intellectual Property Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges

From: owner-npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Amber Sterling
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 4:28 PM
To: npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [npoc-voice] NPOC Call tomorrow Jan. 10 at 2100 UTC

Hi All,

Happy New Year!  And my goodness it snuck up on me.  Our next conference call 
is tomorrow, January 10, 2012 at 4pm EST (21:00 UTC).  Please email me directly 
if you require the conference call number.  The passcode is 5913.

The big topic for tomorrow's call will be our long-awaited elections and to 
begin soliciting nominations.  The list of open positions can be found on our 
website: http://npoc.org/npocelections.html.  You may either nominate yourself 
or someone else (and an email to this list will suffice).

The new gTLD program is still set to launch Thursday, January 12th.  The UDRP 
is up for consideration and we need to formulate our message.  WHOIS is another 
topic that we need to solidify our message.

Kind regards,
Amber

Amber Sterling
Senior Intellectual Property Specialist
Association of American Medical Colleges
2450 N Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
(P) 202-862-6139
(F) 202-828-0659

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• Subject: [NCSG-Discuss] NCSG Open Policy Call: 16 January 20:00 UTC - Monday
• From: Robin Gross <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:07:34 +0000

All,

Please mark your calendars for the January 2012 NCSG Open Policy Call:
 Monday 16 January 20:00 UTC (2-hours)


Agenda to be distributed shortly.


I hope you all will plan to join in the discussion!

Best,
Robin

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