[ncdnhc-discuss] Membership Status of Silicon Valley Public Access Link

[Milton Mueller]

Dear Mr. Mazliach:
We appreciate your organization's membership in the
Noncommercial Domain Name Holders' Constituency
(NCDNHC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Currently your representative in NCDNHC is Mr. 
David Crocker, an emeritus Board member of SVPA. 
In order to avoid a conflict of interest, we would 
request that your organization appoint a new 
representative.

Mr. Crocker is listed as a member of the Neustar
team which just successfully won the award
for management of the .us top-level domain.
In making domain name policy, there may be a 
conflict of interest between Neustar's interests 
as a commercial registry, and those of 
noncommercial domain name holders. Of 
course, as a bona fide noncommcerical 
organization SVPA is still eligible.

I'm sure you can agree that it would be 
inappropriate for someone with such a large
stake in a commercial domain name
service provider to represent noncommercial
interests in the domain name policy making 
process.

This problem has arisen with a few other
organizations before, and our solution has 
been to make sure that there are different
organizational representatives.

Regards,
Dr. Milton Mueller,
Syracuse University
North American representative to the
Names Council for the NCDNHC