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size=2>Marc and EPIC have given us a great gift. EPIC sat down, analyzed
the Whois Working Group (WG) report, and wrote an important set of
comments. I will circulate the text in my next message, but in a nutshell,
EPIC says that the Whois WG came to some very important agreements that move the
Whois process forward (at last!): the WG agree to protect the privacy of
individual registrants (hooray!), accept the OPOC proposal (operational point of
contact) and set out the responsibilities of the OPOC. These are great
comments!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Please help EPIC and NCUC! Please sign on to the comments of EPIC by
sending Marc your name and organization at <A
href="mailto:rotenberg@epic.org">rotenberg@epic.org</A>. </DIV>
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<DIV>Also, please submit your own comments. We are seeing so many comments
from the largest companies in the world that we need more entries on our
side. Take some of Marc's points, or even write a letter to the comments
saying that you endorse and support the EPIC comments and the Whois WG
work. </DIV>
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size=2>7 years of hard work is on the line. NCUC has fought this issue for
so long. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Please help!</DIV>
<DIV>Kathy</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2><<Our hope is to drive the ICANN board to a resolution
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<DIV>the issue, which we understand they are very interested </DIV>
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<DIV>If you would like to sign-on, please send a note. We need</DIV>
<DIV>to finalize in the next day or two.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Marc.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:45 PM, <A title=mailto:KathrynKL@AOL.COM
href="mailto:KathrynKL@AOL.COM">KathrynKL@AOL.COM</A> wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV>It doesn't surprise me. They hate the idea of privacy.</DIV>
<DIV>Would anyone like to work with me on a set of comments that
organizations in NCUC might submit?</DIV>
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<DIV>Would anyone submit comments if we wrote an outline of the key issues
and the supports for the direction of the Whois WG and our NCUC
representatives (pro-OPOC, pro-privacy)?</DIV>
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<DIV>Best, Kathy</DIV>
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size=2>Another orchestrated campaign by the Intellectual<BR>Property
Community -- see the posts at <A
title=http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/index.html
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/index.html">http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/index.html</A><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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