Dear James,<div><br></div><div>Thanks. Not to worry... never too late to share!!!... </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, Alain</div><div><br></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">"Share! That is the key word, that is the essential word!" - Senegalese author Ken Bugul</font></i> </div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:12 PM, James Njoroge Gitau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kaswesha@gmail.com">kaswesha@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear Alain & Colleagues<br> I regret having forgot to include our organization domain name (<a href="http://www.kaswesha.kbo.co.ke/" target="_blank">http://www.kaswesha.kbo.co.ke/</a>) in our first application and i hereby re-submit the application duly filled. I feel sorry for any inconvenient caused.<br>
<br>Regards;<br><br>James Njoroge Gitau<br><br>Nairobi Kenya <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Alain Berranger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alain.berranger@gmail.com" target="_blank">alain.berranger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></span><div>
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</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I want to state I disagree with the decision to exclude the USOC. For 4 reasons:</font></span><div>
<span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">1) Its vision: to enable America's athletes to realize their Olympic and Paralympic dreams. </font></span></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font color="#222222"><span style="line-height:18px">2) its mission: </span></font><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);line-height:13px;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline">To support U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes </span></span></font><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:11px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">in achieving sustained competitive excellence and preserve the Olympic ideals,</span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:11px;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:11px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">and thereby inspire all Americans.</span></div>
<div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><font color="#111111" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font color="#111111" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11px">3) It is a not-for-profit with IRS exemption under 501 c 3</span></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font color="#111111" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><font color="#111111" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11px">4) fundraising is an activity of all not-for-profits, including sponsoring, and thus does not make a not-for-profit a commercial organization. I think you are confusing the USOC per se with the various olympic games hosting organizations set up for Lake Placid, Los Angeles games, etc...</span></font></div>
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<font color="#111111" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11px">Alain</span></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>The new NCSG Executive Committee held its first tele-conference on Tuesday and we made great progress, particularly with respect to establishing a process for handling NCSG membership applications and dealing with the NPOC applications that had come in since the election. So below are my notes from the EC meeting's discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>NCSG-EC Teleconference - 8 Nov. 2011</u></b></div><div>Transcript & mp3 recording: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings</a></div>
<div>Attendance: Michael Carson, Rafik Dammak, Robin Gross, Milton Mueller, Klaus Stoll</div><div><p style="font-size:10pt;line-height:13pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<ins>NCSG-EC Mtg Discussion Agenda:</ins></p><p style="font-size:10pt;line-height:13pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
- Review of NCSG membership application procedures</p><p style="font-size:10pt;line-height:13pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
- Review of pending NCSG membership applications</p><p style="font-size:10pt;line-height:13pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
- Establishment of NCSG Financial Committee</p><p style="font-size:10pt;line-height:13pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<font face="Helvetica"><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium">--------------------------------------------------</span></font></p></div><div><b><u>MEETING NOTES:</u></b></div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div>
<b>These 8 orgs were approved for NCSG membership:</b></div>
<div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial">ALSAC / St. Jude</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><font face="Arial">Australian RedCross Society</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><font face="Arial">Church of God in Christ</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><font face="Arial">Goodwill Industries</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><font face="Arial">International Baccalaureate Organization</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><font face="Arial">The Association of NGOs, The Gambia (TANGO)</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial">Water Environment Research Foundation</font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
</div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial">YMCA of The Gambia</font></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">
<span><span style="font-size:13.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></span></div><div><b>These 3 orgs were determined ineligible for NCSG membership</b>:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1. Kaswesha Community Resource Center<br>
Reason provided for non-approval: Not the exclusive user of at least one domain name (a requirement for eligibility under NCSG Charter Section 2.2.1).<br>They were invited to re-apply when they have a noncommercial domain name.<br>
<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2. Civil Society Movement Against Tuberculosis in Sierre Leone (CISMAT-SL)<br>Reason provided for non-approval: Not the exclusive user of at least one domain name (a requirement for eligibility under NCSG Charter Section 2.2.1).<br>
They were invited to re-apply when they have a noncommercial domain name.<br><br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>3. US Olympic Committee:<br>Reason provided for non-approval: USOC is substantially a major sports licensing business and NCSG is devoted to the protection of noncommercial interests.<br>
They were invited to join ICANN's Intellectual Property Constituency as the more appropriate place to protect their interests.</div><div><br></div><div><b>These 7 orgs are undergoing further evaluation:</b></div><div>
<a href="http://www.cpagambia.gm/" target="_blank">Child Protection Alliance</a></div><div><a href="http://www.itag.gm/" target="_blank">Information Technology Association of the Gambia</a></div><div><a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/" target="_blank">National Coalition for the Homeless</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.nationalgrange.org/" target="_blank">National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry</a></div><div><a href="http://www.pilotsnpaws.org/" target="_blank">Pilots N Paws</a></div><div><a href="http://www.tranquilspacefoundation.org/" target="_blank">Tranquil Space Foundation</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.younglife.org/" target="_blank">Young Life</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>** Attached to this email is a flow chart to explain the agreed process for handling NCSG Membership Applications going forward.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>A few notes on the procedures for handling NCSG Membership Applications</b>:</div><div><br></div><div>Completed NCSG Membership applications should be submitted by the Applicant to the email address <a href="mailto:join-ncsg@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">join-ncsg@ipjustice.org</a> for consideration by the entire NCSG Executive Committee. </div>
<div><br></div><div>NCSG-NCUC Membership application forms are available on the <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Membership" target="_blank">NCSG wiki</a> (for individuals and for organizations).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Members of the NCSG-EC have 2 weeks to conduct the required due diligence on the applications (more flexible if a holiday).</div><div><br></div><div>Decisions to approve membership applications require the full consensus of the voting members of the NCSG Executive Committee (NCSG Charter 2.4.2).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Verification of a named official representative's authority to represent an organizational applicant should be independently verified by the EC (NSCG Charter 2.2.4.1).</div><div><br></div><div>Aggregate voting / representation is not permitted for organizations. Each organization must be represented by a different person. No single person (or group of persons, i.e., a law firm) can represent two or more organizations in NCSG at the same time. This policy discourages attempts to game the system through aggregating membership votes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Organizations with a nonprofit legal structure are nonetheless ineligible for membership in NCSG if they are substantially a commercial or business activity and their interests are more appropriately represented in one of the commercial stakeholder groups (NCSG Charter 2.2.2).</div>
<div><br></div><div>An organization's official representative to NCSG cannot be a GNSO Council Representative for the Intellectual Property Constituency (or other officer or member of the IPC or CSG). Outside trademark lawyers are discouraged as the official representative for an org to NCSG since NCSG is devoted to protecting noncommercial interests.</div>
<div><br></div><div>ON A SEPARATE ISSUE:</div><div>The EC is in the process of establishing a <b>NCSG Financial Committee</b> (as per NCSG Charter 2.1. & 2.6.) and is looking for volunteers from among the NCSG membership - people with fundraising expertise and time to devote to NCSG fundraising activities and ICANN resource allocations. So please let an EC member know if you'd like to be considered for membership on the NCSG Financial Committee. Thank you!</div>
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<br><br></div><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: <a href="tel:%2B1-415-553-6261" value="+14155536261" target="_blank">+1-415-553-6261</a> f: <a href="tel:%2B1-415-462-6451" value="+14154626451" target="_blank">+1-415-462-6451</a></div>
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<br></div><br></blockquote></div><span><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA<div>Member, Board of Directors, CECI, <a href="http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/" target="_blank">http://www.ceci.ca</a><br>
<div>Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, <a href="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca" target="_blank">www.schulich.yorku.ca</a></div><div>NA representative, Chasquinet Foundation, <font color="#0a246a" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><a href="http://www.chasquinet.org" target="_blank">www.chasquinet.org</a></font><br>
interim Vice Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, <a href="http://npoc.org/" target="_blank">http://npoc.org/</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></div></div><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><i style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"></i>KASWESHA YOUTH PROJECT<br><a href="http://www.betterplace.org/projects/5049-kaswesha-housing-cooperative-society" target="_blank">http://www.betterplace.org/projects/5049-kaswesha-housing-cooperative-society</a><br>
<br>Cell-Phone <a href="tel:%2B254%20722%20212171" value="+254722212171" target="_blank">+254 722 212171</a> or <a href="tel:%2B254%20721%20274273" value="+254721274273" target="_blank">+254 721 274273</a><br>Before printing this mail make sure it is completely necessary. THE ENVIRONMENT IS EVERY ONE'S BUSINESS.<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA<div>Member, Board of Directors, CECI, <a href="http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/" target="_blank">http://www.ceci.ca</a><br>
<div>Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, <a href="http://www.schulich.yorku.ca" target="_blank">www.schulich.yorku.ca</a></div><div>NA representative, Chasquinet Foundation, <font color="#0a246a" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><a href="http://www.chasquinet.org" target="_blank">www.chasquinet.org</a></font><br>
interim Vice Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, <a href="http://npoc.org/" target="_blank">http://npoc.org/</a><br>O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824<br>Skype: alain.berranger<br></div></div><br>
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