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Tomorrow, December 15, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary will meet to markup and potentially vote in committee on H.R. 3261, the .Stop Online Piracy Act. or SOPA. Today the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) […]
On March 30, NCUC Executive Committee members asked ICANN’s board to discard an unusual motion that was railroaded through the GNSO Council. A special GNSO drafting team bypassed the normal policy making process and made a last-minute change in policy in order to give the International Olympic Committee and the Red Cross special privileges in […]
The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is holding a policy conference, ICANN & Internet Governance: Security and Freedom in a Connected World, on Friday October 12, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada to explore ICANN and Internet governance. Please register to attend and join the discussion on the eve of ICANN #45. […]
The NCUC has submitted comment to ICANN during the open comment period on new gTLDs. The purpose of the comment is to outline human rights related public policy issues arising from this round of new gTLD applications. Joy Liddicoat, an NCSG GNSO Councilor and the Internet Rights are Human Rights Project Coordinator for the Association […]
In response to a letter drafted by the NCUC concerning overreaching requests of law enforcement agencies in the ongoing Registrar Accreditation Agreement negotiations, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has written the ICANN Board. Their comments focused on two new requirements proposed by LEAs for registrars, namely that they re-verify registrant contact details and […]
We would like to call the community.s attention to the current status of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, or URS. As a method to protect brand owners and Internet users against clear and obvious instances of domain abuse, the URS was a carefully crafted community-wide consensus. It involved many ICANN constituencies and hard-won compromises that […]
We would like to call the community.s attention to the current status of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, or URS. As a method to protect brand owners and Internet users against clear and obvious instances of domain abuse, the URS was a carefully crafted community-wide consensus. It involved many ICANN constituencies and hard-won compromises that […]
The GNSO Council formed a Working Group of interested stakeholders and Stakeholder Group / Constituency representatives, to collaborate broadly with knowledgeable individuals and organizations, in order to consider recommendations in relation to .thick. Whois. Part of the working group.s effort was to incorporate ideas and suggestions gathered from Stakeholder Groups, Constituencies. Thisis the NCUC response […]