time to move on

[Robin Gross]

Dear Kathy,

I'm so sorry to hear you are leaving NCUC but am very very thankful for
the enormous work you have done for the constituency over the years.

You will be sorely missed (and who will sing Broadway musicals with me
at the ICANN mtgs?)

Best of luck you you!  I hope you will still be around!

Best,
Robin


KathrynKL at AOL.COM wrote:

> Dear Friends in NCUC:
> I am sending this note to let you know of my leaving the Whois TF, and
> shortly, the Constituency.  As many of you know, it has been some time
> since I represented an organization in the NCUC (ACM's Internet
> Governance Project) and I have served informally as a legal and policy
> counsel to our constituency since that time.
>
> My big contribution, I think, was the Whois Task Force.  Over 4 1/2
> years and thousands of hours of work, we:
>              - achieved recognition of the fact that privacy and data
> protection exist around the world, protect fundamental rights, and
> absolutely apply to the personal data in the Whois database.
>              - publicized the comments and calls for privacy from Data
> Protection Commissioners, including most recently in Marrakech (where
> the comments of the Article 29 Working Party Chair received great
> attention)
>              - held a pivotal, timely, standing room only conference
> in Vancouver on Whois issues with a unique combination of ccTLDs,
> gTLDs, and outside telecom privacy experts.
>
> But my ability to work on behalf of the NCUC is now ended.  Effective
> immediately, I must resign my WHOIS TF representation and move on to
> other projects.  I will stay in the Constituency, if you would like,
> for a week or two -- to help bring a new TF representative up to
> speed.  But I have to move quickly to other waiting work.
>
> There is an important Whois TF meeting this Monday at 10:30 AM EST.
> I hope someone can attend.
>
> Regards, Kathy
> p.s.   You will find the Privacy Laws spreadsheet and other Whois
> documents at NCDNHC.ORG on the Archives page.  NCDNHC.ORG under What's
> New includes an Agenda for the Vancouver Whois conference with
> wonderful slides from many speakers.