<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body 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>
</body>
</html>