<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Happy to hear NCUC was well represented with more and more diverse voices and that those on the ground deemed the meeting a success. So what does the latter mean with respect to the various problematic issues that were generating gloomy messages a couple days ago? Bylaws, charter, etc?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Kathy Kleiman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks to Robin, and to Rebecca!<br> My thought is that this meeting's success was due to Robin's leadership and to the participation of every single NCUC person who attended.<br> I was thrilled that so many joining NCUC for their first meeting spoke to the issues at the ICANN microphones.<br> We had great floor speeches from Dave, Leslie, Rebecca, Kim and others from EFF Australia.'<br> <br> It was fun to be among friends.<br> It was fun to fight for the right among allies.<br> <br> As Katitza says,<br> We are a great team!<br> <br> Safe travels all,<br> Kathy<br> <blockquote cite="mid:58762b1a0906251904p25f59538g98e8987032cad003@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">congratulations to Kathy, Katitza and Robin for working so hard! The NCUC has been heard loud and clear on the IRT.<br> <br> Sorry I went AWOL yesterday afternoon but China's censorship situation went into overdrive on Wednesday night with the temporary blocking of Google.com, Gmail and other services and I had to catch up on developments, answer some calls, and plug back into a Global Network Initiative discussion on how companies should respond to the situation going forward... in China and elsewhere. I know this is beyond ICANN's current scope, as ICANN doesn't get involved with national filtering policies as long as they don't break the global DNS... so it may not be an appropriate subject for this list or for NCUC. But nonetheless I imagine it's of concern to many on this list.<br> An overview of where things stand in China now:<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/chinas-censorship-blowback.html">http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/chinas-censorship-blowback.html</a><br> <br> See in particular the Declaration of Anonymous Netizens addressed to China's censors in English:<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp7hnsf_3ktp563gh">http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp7hnsf_3ktp563gh</a><br> in Chinese: <br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://docs.google.com/View?id=df563ttp_0c4tt2fdp">https://docs.google.com/View?id=df563ttp_0c4tt2fdp</a><br> <br> Best,<br> Rebecca<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/26 Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="">NCUC was very effective this week at the ICANN meeting in getting our message across on various issues at the public forum sessions (like the problems with the IRT report and GNSO restructuring). <div><br> </div> <div>There is no question that we have Kathy Kleiman and Katitza Rodriguez to thank for much of this. The energy and experience of Kathy and Katitza has made all the difference in the world for NCUC here this week. At every opportunity they took the floor and advanced NCUC's position on the issue being discussed. They were constantly busy talking with others in the community to understand where we are coming from and to clear up much of the misrepresentation of NCUC that we so frequently face at ICANN.<br> <br> <div>Thank you Kathy and Katitza! We are building a stellar team and I'm so encouraged for our future. Thank you!!</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Best,</div> <div>Robin<br> <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; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div><br> </div> </span> <div><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; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div><br> </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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ipjustice.org" target="_blank">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div> <br> </span><br> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br clear="all"> <br> -- <br> Rebecca MacKinnon<br> Open Society Fellow | Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org<br> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong<br> <br> USA: +1-617-939-3493 | HK: +852-6334-8843<br> Mainland China: +86-13710820364<br> <br> E-mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com">rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com</a><br> Blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://RConversation.blogs.com">http://RConversation.blogs.com</a><br> Twitter: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://twitter.com/rmack">http://twitter.com/rmack</a><br> Friendfeed: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://friendfeed.com/rebeccamack">http://friendfeed.com/rebeccamack</a><br> </blockquote> <br> </div> </blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********************************************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">William J. 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