<div dir="ltr">Hi I approve. But you can take my comments below into consideration or not <div><br></div><div>1. I don't understand the three operational community business "<span style="font-size:12.8px">Our members have been keen and engaged participants in the working groups, drafting teams and proposal development processes in<b> all three operational communities.</b>" I wondered what you meant by operational communities. and this link <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship/community">https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship/community</a> says that operational communities are domain names, numbering resources and protocol parameters. If that is the case, have we been developing processes in all three operational communities or am I mistaken and don't understand operational communities ? </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">2. You have three operational communities again in the last sentence. I suggest removing it. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">3. I find this sentence unnecessary : "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>We note the approval of the proposed governance reforms by the independent reviewers commissioned by the NTIA". </b> Why are we noting this ? we could also say it's been approved by some aliens in Mars who were independent too! </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">4.<b>"</b></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>We note the approval of the proposed <i>governance</i> reforms". also in the same sentence we have governance reform. If you don't get rid of that sentence you might want to change it to accountability reforms. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Here is my version. As I said, I am not insisting on it you can go ahead and submit what you already have in a couple of hours.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Statement by the Noncommercial Users Constituency</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">21 June, 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) welcomes the
approval of the IANA Stewardship Transition proposal by the U.S. Commerce
Department NTIA on June 9. NCUC has been an advocate of the transition since
2005 and its members have played a leading role in the process.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">NCUC represents civil society in ICANN's Generic
Names Supporting Organization. It has 505 members from 134 countries, including
117 noncommercial organizations and 388 individuals. Our members have been keen
and engaged participants in the working groups, drafting teams and proposal
development processes <s>in all three operational communities</s>. We also
appointed a representative to the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group (ICG). We
are united in our support for the final proposal.</span><br>
<s><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">We note the approval of the proposed
governance reforms by the independent reviewers commissioned by the NTIA.</span></s><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> We look forward to the faithful implementation of the
proposal's reforms in all three operational communities, and to the conclusion
of this historic process in September 2016.</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>
</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 June 2016 at 23:56, Rafik Dammak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi Milton.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for sharing this and acting quickly. Maybe to explain the context, the statement is aimed to show our support of the approval by NTIA and publicize it. Our members spent a lot of time doing a thankless job in working group and it is important to keep the support in particular because the US political context.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Again I endorse this statement. If there is no objection in coming hours, we will submit it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Rafik </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jun 22, 2016 5:31 AM, "Mueller, Milton L" <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" target="_blank">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Statement by the Noncommercial Users Constituency<br>
21 June, 2016<br>
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The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) welcomes the approval of the IANA Stewardship Transition proposal by the U.S. Commerce Department NTIA on June 9. NCUC has been an advocate of the transition since 2005 and its members have played a leading role in the process.<br>
NCUC represents civil society in ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization. It has 505 members from 134 countries, including 117 noncommercial organizations and 388 individuals. Our members have been keen and engaged participants in the working groups, drafting teams and proposal development processes in all three operational communities. We also appointed a representative to the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group (ICG). We are united in our support for the final proposal.<br>
We note the approval of the proposed governance reforms by the independent reviewers commissioned by the NTIA. We look forward to the faithful implementation of the proposal's reforms in all three operational communities, and to the conclusion of this historic process in September 2016.<br>
<br>
Dr. Milton L Mueller<br>
Professor, School of Public Policy<br>
Georgia Institute of Technology<br>
<br>
Internet Governance Project<br>
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