<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 13, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[...]</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Other that the page that lists the membership (and even that slightly undercounts as you noticed), I wouldn't rely on the Ning website for anything. E.g., there might be cases where several individuals from a NCUC organizational member have pages. It is a social network platform, not a member registry.</div> </div></blockquote></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>+1 There's spam, people who want to join, but never filled out a NCSG membership application, etc. on the Ning platform. </div><div><br></div><div>When a new member is approved by EC, the chair adds them to the chair's official membership list, which is the master list to protect with your life. Unfortunately there are a lot of outdated membership lists and info on the ICANN wiki and Ning pages, so it gets confusing. I appreciate you taking the time to get it clarified and published properly. Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div>PS: ICANN knows we desperately need an integrated membership database solution and they said they would help to provide one a couple months ago, but nothing yet. Let's keep pressing them on it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>