<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Dave:<BR>
What you have done to our list is sad. You feel the unilateral right to post over ten messages a day to this list -- creating a level of harassment and noise that has driven many members who care about the issues pending before ICANN -- off our list. You have done the NCC a great disservice.<BR>
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In response to your question:<BR>
It is not "noncommercial organizations," per se, who the NCC represents (many nonprofit organizations are trade associations with entirely commercial members); we have chosen to represent "noncommercial speech and activity on the Internet." This is the language of our charter; this is the agreement of our first meetings (Berlin and Santiago); this is the unique and special role we play within the DNSO and ICANN. <BR>
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Our NCC charter language is below. It has been accepted; it is the language of this Constituency. It highlights our critical mission within the DNSO to provide a voice and representation for organizations that "serve non-commercial interests and provide services such as community organizing, promotion of the arts, children's welfare, religion, education, scientific research, human rights and the advancement of the Internet as a global communications system available to all segments of society." <BR>
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We are the counterbalance to the Intellectual Property Constituency who represents the legal side of commercial interests, and Business Constituency as well. It is time to move on to the substantive matters at hand. - kathy kleiman, ACM-IGP<BR>
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I. Goals of the Non-Commercial Constituency<BR>
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The Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency has a special place in<BR>
the DNSO. The NCDNHC is intended to be independent of commercial interests.<BR>
Its members are organizations whose uses and applications of the Internet<BR>
are primarily non-commercial, including organizations which represent<BR>
individual domain name holders whose interests must be primarily<BR>
non-commercial.<BR>
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Its purpose is to support non-commercial speech and activity on the<BR>
Internet, to protect the rights of non-commercial domain name holders, and<BR>
to forge together the interests of non-commercial domain name holders.<BR>
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NCDNHC must provide the voice and representation for organizations that<BR>
serve non-commercial interests and provide services such as community<BR>
organizing, promotion of the arts, children's welfare, religion, education,<BR>
scientific research, human rights and the advancement of the Internet as a<BR>
global communications system available to all segments of society. The<BR>
interests of such organizations are not necessarily represented by the other<BR>
constituencies of the DNSO and deserve to be represented in the NCDNHC.<BR>
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On 11/26/01 Crocker spit out the following:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><<Please point to the document that articulates what the "interests of ... <BR>
noncommercial organizations" are. So far, no one has been able to, but it <BR>
is clear that you know exactly what these interests are. You would be <BR>
doing us all a great favor to provide documentation.<BR>
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