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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; ">Dear all,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">In response to your suggestions about timing concerns and discussion priorities, we'll plan to spend a total of 5 minutes on the first 5 items below so we can get right to the heart of the issue concerning us these days, which is the tragedy of the Noncommercial Stakeholder Group Charter and how to respond (#6 below).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Note: We need volunteers to take running notes of meeting discussion please. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Thank you. I hope you will all join in the call and participate in the discussion.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Best,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Robin</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><u><b>11 AUGUST 2009 NCUC Monthly Constituency Meeting</b></u></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Scheduled for: Tuesday 11 August 2009 from 15:00 - 17:00 UTC</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">To be held via Elluminate online meeting software. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Join NCUC’s NING website to get the link to participate in online meeting:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> <a href="http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp</u></font></a>?</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><u>Other Time Zones:</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">08:00 - 10:00 - California</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">11:00 - 13:00 - New York</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">12:00 - 14:00 - Sao Paulo</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">15:00 - 17:00 - UTC / Greenwich</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">16:00 -18:00 - London</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">17:00 - 19:00 - Geneva / Tunis</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">18:00 - 20:00 - Alexandria / Nairobi</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">19:30 - 21:30 - Tehran</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">22:00 - 24:00 - Phnom Pehn</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">23:00 - 01:00 - Singapore / Hong Kong</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">---------------------------------------------------</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b>Draft Discussion Agenda</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><u><b>I.</b></u><b> </b><u><b>Constituency Business</b></u></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">1. Membership Growth and Continued Membership Drive</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">NCUC's membership has reached <a href="http://ncdnhc.org/page/membership-roster"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman">139 members</font></a> from 48 different countries, including 74 noncommercial organizations and 65 individuals. This represents a 210% increase in membership since 2008.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">2. Join NING Website for NCUC policy development</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> <a href="http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp</u></font></a>?</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">3. Join an NCUC Committee or GNSO Working Group</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> <a href="http://ncdnhc.org/groups"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://ncdnhc.org/groups</u></font></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">4. Next NCUC Monthly Meeting: 22 September 2009 – “One Web Day”</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">5. Planning for next ICANN Meeting in Seoul, Korea 25 – 30 October 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> a. Outreach to local noncommercial groups</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> b. Consider policy presentation / panel</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> c. Meeting with ICANN Board in person</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> d. Local press media outreach</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">6. Tragedy of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) Petition and How to Respond</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> Reject ICANN drafted charter? Ask for reconsideration of board decision? File Ombudsman complaint?</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><u><b>II.</b></u><b> </b><u><b>Substantive GNSO Policy Issues</b></u></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">1. GNSO Structuring</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Proposed amended GNSO Bylaws Related to GNSO Restructuring</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Comment Period ends 24 August</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200908.html#gnso-restructure"><u>http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200908.html#gnso-restructure</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">2. New gtlds policy – Draft Applicant Guidebook</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">a. IRT Report response discussion</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">3. “Vertical Integration” Issue & Registrar–Registry Separation</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">4. Registrant Rights Charter Working Group - We need volunteers</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">5. Modification of UDRP Rules</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">WIPO Proposal & Comment Period Ends 12 August</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#udrp"><u>http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#udrp</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">6. Registration Abuse Working Group – We need volunteers</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">7. Institutional Confidence (Or Lack Thereof)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Proposed Bylaw changes to improve accountability - Comment Period ends 25 Sept.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg07121.html"><u>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg07121.html</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">8. Geographic Regions Initial Report Comment Period ends 4 Sept.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#geo-regions-review"><u>http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#geo-regions-review</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">9. Update on other GNSO teams (Fast Flux, Post-Expiration Domain Names, whois, IDNs, RAA) </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">10. Any Other Business?</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> =======================================</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">IP JUSTICE</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Robin Gross, Executive Director</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org/"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.ipjustice.org</u></font></a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>robin@ipjustice.org</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><br><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="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><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></body></html>