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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Thanks, Bill, and
all the others who are happy about a “sweet sixteen” celebration.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">It is good to lift
up the “longevity of NCUC” as Robin said, and I think this is not
only a reference just to the 16 years, but also to a basic
perseverance with which we have maintained our basic orientation
through all these years, in spite of the difficulties we faced.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Who are the “early
members who are still around ICANN” to whom James referred? Well,
I
am one who was at the 1999 Santiago de Chile ICANN meeting, where
NCUC was looking for recognition, and then I moved slowly
to the role of Asia region representative in our Executive
Committee
(as I was already in Cambodia at that time, where I had
established
the first Internet connection in 1994), then GNSO, and finally
NCUC
sent me into the ICANN Nomination Committee. - 2010 in Brussels
was
my last presence at an ICANN meeting. Since then I am only on some
lists – still present for the Open Institute of Cambodia, but not
so active, as I am now living in the countryside in Cambodia,
still
struggling with stable Internet access, while others in other
parts
of the world fight for Net Neutrality, and recently more concerned
for people who get
into trouble for what they write in a blog or paste into Facebook.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Have fun at the
celebration.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Norbert</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">-
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Norbert Klein</p>
Kep/Cambodia
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/28/2015 06:23 PM, William Drake
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<div class="">Sometimes I am rather slow to think of things….</div>
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<div class="">The Non-Commercial Domain Names Holders
Constituency (which later became NCUC) and other GNSO
constituencies were officially recognized by the ICANN Board
on Monday 18 October 1999 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://features.icann.org/1999-10-18-domain-name-supporting-organization"
class="">https://features.icann.org/1999-10-18-domain-name-supporting-organization</a>.
We did nothing last year to celebrate our 15th anniversary,
which shows some resilience as Internet-oriented civil society
networks go. But if there’s sufficient interest, we could
make up for it by doing something for our 16th. After all
we’ll be in Dublin, hardly a bad place for libation and such.
18 October 2015 is Sunday night, and as far as I know thus
far there’s nothing major scheduled that would prevent us from
doing something. Or we could it after Constituency Day, on
Tuesday 20th, assuming there’s no music night. This might be
more sensible as we’ll have just spent the day together etc.</div>
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<div class="">3 possible scenarios requiring ascending levels of
effort:</div>
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<div class="">1. We assemble all members who will be in
attendance and reserve a room in a good pub or restaurant. If
the EC approves, we could put the bill on NCUC’s tab.</div>
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<div class="">2. We assemble all members who will be in
attendance plus some invited co-conspirators, in which case it
might make sense to ask for space at the conference site.</div>
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<div class="">3. We hold an open to all party. </div>
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<div class="">For 2 or 3 we probably would need to seek outside
funding, e.g. from ICANN and past supporters, e.g. PIR, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a>,
etc.</div>
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<div class="">If we wanted we could have some vets make welcoming
remarks, make it amusing. Hire an Irish singer with a guitar.
Decorate the place with Milton masks and ask Alex Pisanty to
keynote (kidding)…whatever.</div>
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<div class="">Does this have any appeal to anyone? If so we could
create an organizing team. If not, ok no worries, just a
thought…</div>
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<div class="">Best</div>
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<div class="">Bill</div>
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William J. Drake<br class="">
International Fellow & Lecturer<br class="">
Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br class="">
University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class="">
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br class="">
ICANN, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ncuc.org"
class="">www.ncuc.org</a><br class="">
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch"
class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com"
class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a></a> (lists),<br class="">
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<i class="">Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap </i><a
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