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<div>Thanks, Kathy! I also strongly agree with the proposal to include individuals in NCUC as outlined below. This is a very exciting time for NCUC and terrific opportunity to significantly grow our constituency.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:29 PM, <a href="mailto:KathrynKL@AOL.COM">KathrynKL@AOL.COM</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Arial" size="2">To Milton<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">, Robin, and all in Paris,</font></font></span></font></font></div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thank you for making today's meeting so easy to participate it. Milton did a terrific job of leading the discussion today with people in the conference room, and others (like me) coming in online. The hour and a half I was on the call was a good and substantive discussion. In the end, I wound up supporting the proposition below.</span></font></font></div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font></font> </div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I hope the rest of the meeting went as well, and I look forward to reading the notes. All the best in the Names Council meeting and other meetings coming up.</span></font></font></div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font></font> </div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Kathy</span></font></font></div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font></font> </div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font></font> </div> <div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><dear all: A proposition to be discussed at our meeting today.><o:p></o:p></span></font></font></div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> </font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In preparation for the GNSO reforms, which we anticipate will open up both the commercial and noncommercial stakeholder groups to individuals, NCUC wishes to extend an invitation to interested individual registrants to formally register with and participate in NCUC on a provisional basis. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In line with our previously stated position on GNSO reform, we believe that individuals who register domain names and take an interest in domains for personal use, and/or are mostly concerned with the public interest aspects of domain name policy, should be admitted into the Noncommercial Users stakeholder group. Examples of such individual users would be a person with a personal domain for an email account, a domain name holder with a family web site or blog, or individual academics or members of noncommercial organizations who find it too difficult or lack the standing to get their organization to formally join on an organizational basis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(Individuals who register domain names for business purposes – e.g., investors in the domain name market, small businesses, and consultants – and are mainly concerned with the way domain name policy affects their business activity should be represented through the Commercial Users stakeholder group.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Until the GNSO reforms are completed, we propose to add noncommercial individuals as provisional, nonvoting members. This period can also serve as an experiment to see how the representation of individuals can best be formally structured. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We anticipate asking interested individuals to sign a commitment that:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <ol style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">They are not currently members of any other GNSO constituency<o:p></o:p></span></font> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Their interest in domain name policy relates to their individual use and public interest aspects<o:p></o:p></span></font> </li></ol><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We will be announcing a signup process soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></font></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div> </div></font><br><br><br><div><font style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><hr style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Gas prices getting you down? 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