<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">Dear Dan and Marc,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">I thank you for your feedback. French is my mother's tongue but
I will obviously reply in English. I have just returned from a family vacation,
have just read your emails and will attempt to address soonest the issues
and/or special points you have raised below. I'm not a technical expert on
internet issues - in fact if I was to self-label I would say I'm a generalist
in international development with a deep global ICT4D experience, from a
Canadian public development funding agency (as a grantmaker) and NGO (as a grantseeker) points of view. Hence, as a
reflection of my general approach if/when elected, I will consult with stakeholders
within the NPOC constituency on those issues/points where I do not have the
necessary expertise. I hope in due course to also become acquainted with as
many NCSG members as possible and feel more comfortable in consulting soonest with them
too. For now here are a few remarks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">Dan, Mark, to make it simpler I hope, I will embed my comments directly in
your texts.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">I take the opportunity to remind that, as a result of accepting
my nomination from a new NCSG member from Bangladesh, I have submitted an early
and comprehensive SOI stand alone document on this election, and addressed
every question as completely as I could. FYI, I have brought to NPOC, and therefore
to NCSG and ICANN, at least 10 members in the past few months. I intend to
continue such recruiting - elected or not to GNSO Council, because I believe
the NGO/NFP communities must have a stronger voice at ICANN than up to now. A
strong NPOC will mean a stronger NCSG.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:
#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0000CC">Best
regards, ALAIN BERRANGER</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Dan
Krimm <<a href="mailto:dan@musicunbound.com" target="_blank" title="mailto:dan@musicunbound.com">dan@musicunbound.com</a>> wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Alain,<br>
<br>
I appreciate this offering, and I happen to be an example of someone who<br>
holds a couple of .com domains but operates in an entirely not-for-profit<br>
manner (my domains are used for essentially personal purposes, and there is<br>
no revenue-generating function entailed -- I own the domains as an<br>
individual, not as an organization), thus justifying my individual<br>
membership in NCSG/NCUC. (I've also done some work for IP Justice and<br>
NCUC, largely back in 2007, as well as a bit for IGC. I was previously on<br>
staff at CPSR, and a few NCUC folks have had affiliations with that org as<br>
well.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">I take your point that not all organizations operating with a
.org domain name are not for profit as well as not all organizations operating
with a .com domain name are for profit. I suspect it is the rule however when
it comes to the majority, although I have not seen statistics or relevant
research on the subject – a query on this to Richard Heeks from Manchester
University’s Centre for Development Informatics turned out nothing. I, for one,
prefer the <i><u>not-for-loss</u></i> label.
I suspect you do not hold .com domains to lose money neither, although I fully
understand that making money from them is not a primary objective, just a necessary sustainable process I imagine. I do not know your activities but assume the .com domain
names you use are mission-critical to the achievements of these activities. As
a matter of curiosity, what is your rationale in going for a .com instead of a
.org domain name?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
When it comes to NCSG elections, however, in addition to overarching<br>
philosophy as general context, what I'm personally really interested in is<br>
where you come down on active issues of direct relevance to ICANN,<br>
especially issues addressed by GNSO. Privacy vs. access to registrant<br>
information (i.e., due process) with respect to the WHOIS database.<br>
Criteria for approving/rejecting gTLDs under the new policy (who has power<br>
to veto and under what conditions and via what formal processes --<br>
content-based? trademark disputes? "moral values"?
processes for<br>
appeal?). Some real nuts-and-bolts stuff relevant to representing us<br>
meaningfully in this particular forum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">Agreed. I will consult the NPOC constituency for any official policy
decisions on your questions but meanwhile, here is where I stand. I believe in
privacy as one of the most important principle of a developed society,
realizing that the internet era has seen a substantial degradation in the
privacy of citizens, organizations and institutions of all kind. Privacy and transparency
principles are at odds however and attaining a balance is a dynamic and
continuous process - the objective is in the dynamic process not in any given
static equilibrium. To illustrate: will there ever be a balanced dynamic
consensus on WikiLeaks' principle of transparency and a government’s principle
of privacy for diplomatic communications? Are diplomatic immunity privileges
not abused every day somewhere in the world? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">I believe that the required registrant information should be the
minimum required for a third independent party to repeat/complete the exact due
diligence process and come to the same conclusion as the registry evaluation
body. That minimum information should be public or there should be reasonably
efficient process for obtaining the information if protected using a proxy or
privacy service. I have spoken in that direction during the late work of the
JAS Working Group.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">While the distinction that Marc draws can
be important in motivating these<br>
positions, it is ultimately the positions themselves that become most<br>
important to us as a group. Marc's point is sort of an indirect way of<br>
getting at this, but why not aim at it directly.<br>
<br>
So, do you support the privacy and due process interests of individual<br>
domain registrants that may not have an institutional buffer to hide behind<br>
with respect to WHOIS identifying data?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">I will consult here too to see if there is an NPOC consensus,
but personally, yes to your question. Individual domain registrants should have
the same privacy check points as all other registrants. In my book, all domain
registrants should have to provide the same level of information - i.e. the
minimum required for approved due diligence, as stated above. Obvious to me is
the point that the larger the institutional domain registrants' organization,
and also in terms of organizational complexity, the more information will have
to be provided. There will always be limits and some will take advantage of
that. Although I believe only a minute number of registrants will exhibit rogue
behavior at some point, I do not think the "filter mesh" should be so
fine as to seriously disempower everybody else or limit entrepreneurial or
innovative behavior.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"> What is
your position with respect<br>
to ICANN's treatment of domains in the context of trademarks or in the<br>
context of character strings that are linguistically meaningful in moral<br>
terms? Rights of national governments to veto gTLD applications (and the<br>
appropriate role of the GAC at ICANN)? Formal processes in gTLD<br>
applications?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0000CC">ICANN
should have policies that allow civil society, governments and commercial
entities to all register domain names and polices that allows these
participants to comment on how those policies are created.<span> </span>Allowing the registration of domain names
that correspond with trademarks is just as important as allowing the
registration of domain names containing a trademark and other words for social
or political commentary.<span> </span>Since
governments are important stakeholders in Internet governance, the ability of governments
to protect its citizens and private sector from a new mischevious or
ill-intended TLD should be facilitated.<span>
</span>The government’s input on ICANN policies should be encouraged and
perhaps sought more early by the GNSO in the process of developing policy.<span> </span>The answers in my book are reasonableness of
positions and enabling dialogue. This will lessen the support for extreme
positions.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am comfortable with your being new to
NCSG. I might be a little less<br>
comfortable with your being new to ICANN per se, unless I can understand<br>
how your general principles (or the general principles of those to whom you<br>
will appeal for guidance) might inform your positions on ICANN-specific<br>
policies, which is what this representation is all about.<br>
<br>
Many other nominees here have substantial track records with respect to<br>
ICANN policies -- they are "well-known quantities" here. In the
absence of<br>
a track record there needs to be something else of a rough equivalent in<br>
order to judge a candidacy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color:#0000CC"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">There was first day at ICANN for each and every one of us. I
chose to run early in elections because I can contribute fairly fast to the enlargement
of the NCSG membership and usually am a fast learner. I am retired with over 40
years of international development work, so I have time and experience. I set
foot on the African continent for the first time in Dakar when Mr. Senghor was
President and was successful in improving socio-economic returns to Senegalese
society from phosphate fertilizer mining. Over the next 40 years I slowly became an international development specialist, although I find that learning is a life long process and try to apply that principle every day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">My experience with multi-stakeholder organizations
(International Development Research Centre, the Global Knowledge Partnership,
Telecentre.org, the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas, etc…) and
success in reaching consensus among different groups with different opinions…
will hopefully help me in my future activities with NPOC and NCSG.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,<br>
Dan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<br>
<br>
At 12:09 PM +0200 9/11/11, Alain Berranger wrote:<br>
>Greetings to all colleagues,<br>
><br>
>I'm new to NCSG via NPOC and very few of you know me.<br>
><br>
>I am quite comfortable with the civil society sector or third sector,<br>
>having worked with it internationally all my life and in most continents.<br>
>While it can be generally accepted by most that US Foundations holding a<br>
>501 c 3 IRS status can be clearly considered not-for-profit, they cannot<br>
>be considered as civil society, but as a benefactor of civil society. Yes,<br>
>501 c 3 are a US construct, but philanthropy exists throughout the world.<br>
>Civil society, in a global sense, really represents communities of all<br>
>kinds that come together for social, political, religious, environmental,<br>
>even economic purposes and are always not-for-profit. If they are for<br>
>profit, they cannot be truly considered civil society. Now, it is possible<br>
>for a nonprofit organization to have a commercial activity (it is<br>
>sometimes called earned income) provided the surplus funds from these<br>
>activities (selling T'-shirts, running training workshops, etc...) are<br>
>ploughed back into the fundamental mission and activities of the<br>
>organization. Like Muhammad Yunus once put it to me: "Grameen can be<br>
>defined as a not-for-loss organization...." so while its main
objective<br>
>was empowering poor women by ensuring they have access to micro-credit,<br>
>they could also sell the products made by these women (I paid $5 in the<br>
>90's in Dhaka for a lovely hand wowen cotton shirt made in a village<br>
>somewhere and which I'm still wearing today!...). Sellling shirts did not<br>
>make Grameen a commercial entity.<br>
><br>
>It would be interesting to me to discuss the status of universities or<br>
>governments, in relation to their main activities and their fundraising<br>
>practices...but I will leave this discussion to another moment, hopefully<br>
>during the election.<br>
><br>
>Alain BERRANGER<br>
><br>
>On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Marc Perkel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">><<mailto:<a href="mailto:marc@churchofreality.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:marc@churchofreality.org">marc@churchofreality.org</a>><a href="mailto:marc@churchofreality.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:marc@churchofreality.org">marc@churchofreality.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>Many people in this group know each other very well. Some of us (me) know<br>
>a few people here well. So in this election, once it becomes a contest, I<br>
>think we should perhaps talk about what the candidates bring to the table.<br>
>I think it's important that we make the best decision we can out of the<br>
>outstanding candidates we have to choose from.<br>
><br>
>For example, since this is the non-commercial constituency and the rest of<br>
>ICANN is commercial I think we need people who understand that just<br>
>because someone has a 501c3 IRS status or a .org domain name that doesn't<br>
>mean they are non-commercial. There are plenty of places for commercial<br>
>users to express their interests and the non-commercial side is not one of<br>
>them. So I'd like to see people who see the bright line between commercial<br>
>and non-commercial be the ones who get elected. I personally feel that the<br>
>voice of money is a threat to the future of humanity and that someone has<br>
>to speak for people. And that someone would be us.<br>
><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">>The rest of ICANN is commercial<i> <u>and governmental</u></i><u>.</u>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">Philanthropy is a culture-specific phenomenon as well as an economic transfer of resources. Again 501 c 3 are american-specific, so as global philanthropy increases relatively faster than the US-brand of philanthropy, diversity of foundation models, funding sources and grantmaking styles will become the rule. That said, please give me an
example of a “commercial 501 c 3”, because there are well over 70,000 registered
foundations in the US and I do not know one that is commercial - the IRS would
not put up with it by the way. In short, the Bill Gates Foundation cannot give grants
that benefit Microsoft. Telecentre.org, which is partially funded by Microsoft and the Canadian government, is software neutral, so their grantees and members make their software choices freely. The telecentre movement and not for profits in general are huge supporters of Free and Open Source Software! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC"><br>
>In general, Mark, you seem to be in agreement with my statement on not for
profit civil society in my original email. If not, what is it that I said there
that is not factual?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">As a member of NPOC and NCSG, I wish to represent only
not-for-profits NGOs at ICANN. So, we are in this together I would say.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">I'm looking forward to engaging in the election process with the entire NCSG community. I had hoped to be in Dakar to do some of it face to face, but there was no travel allocations for the NPOC constituency. I trust you will find me a team player even I don't make the team!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#0000CC">Best regards, ALAIN BERRANGER</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0000CC"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">><br>
>--<br>
>Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">><<a href="http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk" target="_blank" title="http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk">http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk</a>><a href="http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk" target="_blank" title="http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk">http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">>Executive-in-residence, Schulich School
of Business,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>><</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/" target="_blank" title="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/"><span lang="FR-CA">http://www.schulich.yorku.ca</span></a></span><span>></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/" target="_blank" title="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/"><span lang="FR-CA">www.schulich.yorku.ca</span></a></span><span><br>
>Trustee, GKP Foundation,<br>
><</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/" target="_blank" title="http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/"><span lang="FR-CA">http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org</span></a></span><span>></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/" target="_blank" title="http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org/"><span lang="FR-CA">www.globalknowledgepartnership.org</span></a></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">>Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the
Americas -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">><<a href="http://www.focal.ca/" target="_blank" title="http://www.focal.ca/">http://www.focal.ca</a>><a href="http://www.focal.ca/" target="_blank" title="http://www.focal.ca/">www.focal.ca</a></span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA<div><a href="http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk" target="_blank">http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk</a><br>Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, <a href="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca" target="_blank">www.schulich.yorku.ca</a><br>
Trustee, GKP Foundation, <a href="http://www.globalknowledgepartnership.org" target="_blank">www.globalknowledgepartnership.org</a><br>Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the Americas - <a href="http://www.focal.ca" target="_blank">www.focal.ca</a><br>
O:<a href="tel:%2B1%20514%20484%207824" value="+15144847824" target="_blank">+1 514 484 7824</a>; M:<a href="tel:%2B1%20514%20704%207824" value="+15147047824" target="_blank">+1 514 704 7824</a><br>Skype: alain.berranger<br>
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