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NCUC:<div><br></div><div>For those NCUC members who have not yet completed the brief GNSO Constituency Survey, please do so before 14 December when the survey closes. More info on the ICANN survey and links to participate, etc are below.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG">robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 25, 2008 3:40:31 PM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[NCUC-DISCUSS] GNSO Constituency Survey Instructions</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG">robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Dear NCUC,</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Below is a message from Ken Bour, ICANN consultant, with instructions on how to complete the GNSO Constituency survey. I'd like to encourage you all to take a few minutes and participate in the ICANN survey. (Send any questions about it to Ken Bour at the email address <a href="mailto:bpsurveyadmin@icann.org"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 230); "><u>bpsurveyadmin@icann.org</u></font></a>).</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Thanks,</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Robin</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">----</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Dear Non-Commercial Users Constituency Member:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">The ICANN Policy Staff, in cooperation with the GNSO, is seeking to collect broad based feedback on a number of GNSO Improvement recommendations approved by the ICANN Board (for reference links, see bottom of this message). In keeping with ICANN's bottom-up consensus model, the objective is to encourage extensive community input that can provide a foundation of opinions, comments, ideas and suggestions that will lead to informed, useful, and effective programs designed to enhance all GNSO constituencies.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">An online survey has been developed that focuses on four specific areas of the GNSO Improvements relating to constituencies:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 76px; text-indent: -52px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">(1)</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Developing a standardized "Toolkit" of services;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 76px; text-indent: -52px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">(2)</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Creating a centralized membership registry or database;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 76px; text-indent: -52px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">(3)</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Knowledge/skill training for leaders and members; and</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 76px; text-indent: -52px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">(4)</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Recruiting/outreach programs associated with constituency growth and expansion.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Constituency members are encouraged to participate in this GNSO Constituency Survey. The collective results and tabulations will become input to various working teams/groups chartered to develop approaches and solutions for GNSO Improvements consistent with the Board-approved recommendations. Your candid and honest feedback is appreciated and will be treated anonymously. You are being asked respond to the questions as an individual and not in any representative capacity that you may hold as part of this constituency.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Staff has provided the following instructions regarding the survey:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">You may provide input beginning Monday, October 27th – December 2nd at which point the survey will be closed to further responses. [Note: recently extended to Sunday, December 14</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">]</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">To access the survey, please enter the following link into your web browser <a href="https://www.bigpulse.com/m2597/intro"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>https://www.bigpulse.com/m2597/intro</u></font></a>.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Please read and follow the directions carefully once you reach the introduction page. You will be asked for some registration information and we urge you to provide a valid email address because it will be used to send a confirmation of your survey responses along with a link to return to the site in the event that you were unable to complete it on the first visit.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">You will need the following 8 character PIN that authorizes access to the survey:</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Access PIN: NCUC-831 (...for Non-Commercial Users Constituency ONLY)</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">This PIN is case-sensitive, so please be careful when entering. If you make a mistake, there are successively longer wait periods before you can reenter the PIN.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">There is no ID or Password required to take the survey, only the PIN. For security reasons, please DO NOT release this PIN to anyone not specifically invited or authorized to participate in this survey.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">If you have questions or encounter any technical difficulties with the survey, please forward an email to: <a href="mailto:bpsurveyadmin@icann.org"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>bpsurveyadmin@icann.org</u></font></a>.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Thank you for your cooperation and participation,</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Background Documents (February 2008):</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Summary GNSO Improvements Recommendations (BGC-WG Report):</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-summary-03feb08.pdf"><u>http://www.icann.org/en/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-summary-03feb08.pdf</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Full GNSO Improvement Recommendations (BGC-WG Report):</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Book Antiqua" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Book Antiqua; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-03feb08.pdf"><u>http://www.icann.org/en/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-03feb08.pdf</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><br></p></blockquote><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>