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<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">If you have the spare time to do it, it doesn't hurt, but don't overestimate the attention span of u.s. congresscritters. The hearing was a payoff to ANA for their heavy lobbying. The congress has no authority
to interfere w the icann new tld process except insofar as they can pressure ntia. If you do write a letter, make sure that a copy is sent to NTIA (Strickling)<br>
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<font color="#cc0000">Milton Mueller<br>
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<div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px"><b>From: </b>Konstantinos Komaitis <k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk><b><br>
To: </b>"EC-NCUC@ipjustice.org" <ec-ncuc@ipjustice.org><b><br>
Cc: </b>Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>, Robin Gross <robin@ipjustice.org><b><br>
Sent: </b>Sun, Dec 11, 2011 10:49:36 GMT+00:00<b><br>
Subject: </b>NCUC letter to US House - re iCANN hearing<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear all,<br>
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I was wondering what you wold think of NCUC sending a letter to the US Congress regarding those ICANN hearings. Given NPOC's participation and focus on trademarks and Kurt mentioning us during the last meeting, we might wish to send a letter supporting ICANN's
multistakeholder model.<br>
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I am not sure as to whether I have the bandwith to do this myself, given that I am chasing deadlines, but I will try to have a crack at it over the next couple of days. The next ICANN hearing is, I believe, on Thursday.<br>
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What you all think?<br>
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KK<br>
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Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,<br>
Senior Lecturer in Law,<br>
Director of LLM in Information Technology and Telems. Law,<br>
Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses,<br>
ICANN NCUC Chair<br>
University of Strathclyde,<br>
Graham Hills Bld.<br>
50 George Street,<br>
Glasgow, G1 1BA,<br>
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tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306<br>
email: k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk<br>
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