<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Dave:
<BR>The tremendous underrepresentation of numerous groups in the ICANN process is a matter of record and documentation. The promises of ICANN to improve that underrepresentation in the reform process are known to the Department of Commerce and a major reason why the renewal was granted.
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<BR>ICANN will only succeed if many voices of Internet stakeholders are heard loudly and clearly -- and understood and incorporated into ICANN decision making. There is much work to be done -- and ICANN acknowledged it. NCC can and should agree.
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<BR>Kathy Kleiman
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<BR>folks? This activity has been going on for a long time. Why have they not
<BR>been heard from more generally?
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