[ncdnhc-discuss] Resolution on ORG Divestiture

[KathrynKL at aol.com]

George:  By your own admission, you no longer represent any organization 
which is a member of the NCC.  Yet you participate on our NCC list, and we 
welcome you.  You will come to LA, join our NCC meeting, and debate the 
issues with us. 

Most constituencies are closed groups.  The Intellectual Property 
Constituency takes months to review new applications, and then costs hundreds 
or more dollars to join.  It is easy to create a common position in a 
homogeneous environment.  It is much harder in ours. 

At one time, the NCC was the largest, most diverse, and most open of all the 
constituencies.   We never, ever promised to represent the views of every 
organization in the NCC.  What we promise in our charter was to be true to 
the spirit of noncommercial speech and activity on the Internet.  It is a 
commitment that we have taken seriously, and against tremendous odds, we have 
done well.

The load of the NCC is borne by a very few people.  The task of following the 
day-to-day activities of ICANN takes time.  The job of being an NCC leader 
participating fully in the Names Council can take hours and days.  Being a 
Task Force or Committee Chair for the Names Council can take weeks.  Bringing 
information back to the NCC, organizing and leading NCC meetings, working 
with NCC members is a task that consumes every day, and all free time. 

For those who do not know me, I was the first North American Names Council 
representative from the NCC.  It was an all-consuming task.  Mine is the 
mantle that Milton took up.  It is a difficult job.

Let's all step back and take a deep breath.  If we look at the NCC, our task 
still remains making sure that the noncommercial voice and the amazing range 
of noncommercial speech and activity in our domain name system are 
represented in the debates of the ICANN community.  Please judge people and 
email, not by their eloquence (for we are not all eloquent), but by their 
pursuit of our goals for noncommercial domain name use, development, and 
improvement.

Regards, 
Kathy Kleiman   



George.Sadowsky at attglobal.net wrote:


> 
> I will be at ICANN in Los Angeles, and I look forward to observing 
> how you all interact in face to face discussions, that is, if the 
> group will let me join their meeting.
> 


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