<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm something of a lurker myself, but it would seem to me that merging the three constituencies would mean that the NCSG would be no longer a group, but just a constituency itself, and thus would lose weight.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">While at the same time the NCUC would lose the ability to speak with a collective voice on such occasions it might differ from NPOC or whoever. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I could be mistaken but I seem to recall the main justification for NPOC forming was a similar concern, mainly because they had different views over trademarks issues.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">joly</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 1:06 AM Joy Liddicoat <<a href="mailto:joy@liddicoat.nz">joy@liddicoat.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Joly - good question, thanks. To be honest, I have no
intention of responding to the debate at this point - the idea
generates about as much interest as I would have in sharpening a
blunt pencil and using it to poke holes in cheese. <br>
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<p>No disrespect intended to those who favour discussing it, but
honestly, with all the other issues in the DNS+ world right now, I
would have thought better to engage in substantive policy work
than on this kind of internal restructuring.</p>
<p>I acknowledge that I say this as someone who hasn't engaged in
policy work for some time (for various reasons) and also being
from New Zealand, where we currently have the privilege of living
in a Covid-free community thanks to our strong political
leadership and collective community action. However, this does
give me a different perspective on ICANN, gTLDs, ccTLDs and
relative priorities.<br>
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<p>Joy Liddicoat<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I notice a
deafeniing silence from the NCUC old school on this topic. Are
we keeping our powder dry?</div>
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