The NCUC Charter must be revised as per ICANN staff’s requirement as we move toward the NCSG structure as well as to codify the enfranchisement of individuals in the constituency. The revised charter can be viewed at: http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCUC-Charter-Revisions-Sep-09.pdf
23 SEPTEMBER 2009 NCUC Monthly Constituency Meeting Scheduled for: Wednesday 23 September 2009 from 14:00 – 16:00 UTC To be held via Elluminate online meeting software. Join NCUC.s NING website to get link to participate in online meeting: http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp? Need volunteers to take running notes of meeting discussion please. Other Time Zones: 07:00 – 09:00 […]
Reproduced from here: http://www.sanfranciscoconsult.com/editorials/eng/2009/who-has-a-voice-in-running-the-web/ Links are not reproduced. Have you ever given thought to how the Web is run? It’s a rarity in today’s world in that it is mostly run by a non profit entity based in the US: ICANN. Now that the web has gained in importance and impact since 1998,when ICANN was […]
I’ve posted a new blog entry at the Internet Governance Project, warning people about the staff’s attempt to create a fake Consumers Constituency in order to dilute and divide the influence of noncommercial stakeholders in the new GNSO. While a consumers special interest group would be great in a charter that keeps the NCSG unified, […]
On Wednesday, a US Congress Subcommittee held a Hearing on .Expansion of Top Level Domain Names and its Effects of Competition.. Members of the US House of Representatives questioned [names and organizations] whether the Internet climate is ready to accept an unlimited number of new gTLDs. At the heart of the discussions was trademark protection. […]
(re-posted by request from my blog at HTTP://avri.doria.org) I try to be PC. I try to be civil. But I don.t believe in either. In fact I think the requirement to be either PC or civil, which is becoming more and more a hallmark of US interactions, is dangerous and a really bad idea. And […]
ICANN Accountability Post-JPA: No Meaningful Change Expected From IP Justice (30 Sept. 2009) While many are dancing in the streets over today.s decision by the US Government to loosen some of its ties to ICANN as its a single governmental authority, I.m not convinced this decision will change much on a practical level. The Affirmation […]
The ICANN-US DOC ‘Affirmation of Commitments’ – A Step Forward? From the Centre for Internet and Society On 30 September 2009, ICANN signed an Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) with the US Government’s Department of Commerce. ICANN is the not-for-profit public-benefit corporation that coordinates the Internet’s naming system. The Affirmation has been widely hailed for the […]
See comments from the Association for Progressive Communications here: http://forum.icann.org/lists/iic-proposed-bylaws/msg00012.html
Ron Wickersham – Non Commercial Users Constituency 1. Current vocation: electronics engineer but duties extend beyond that realm Employer: Alembic, Inc. (electronic guitar manufacturer) and Position: bookworm and chief engineer, plus duties as unix systems administrator, network engineer, factory equipment maintenance, numerical control programmer, and facilities maintenance. 2. Type of work performed in 1 above: […]