a few words on Sao Paulo mtg

[Marcelo Fernandes Costa]

Robin,

I think that as usual to everybody the end of year is very much overloaded of
work and I would like knowing how I can help the constituency and principally
to
Carlos Afonso. At this moment we are in search of resources to support
the work
of the chair and of the executive committee. Since our group, as demonstrated
in Sao Paulo, is very small we have only members to share the work, and they
are always the same persons.

I can, as in last year, ask to our staff of the Brazilian Internet Steering
Committee to help us with our electronic elections software puts on air our
election for the positions that need to be elected or replaced. In this
case do
we have to re-elect a person for the council of the GNSO and the
members of the
executive committee, right? Who are the candidates?  I would like putting my
name because we are working in order that 50 associates more organizations of
the Latin America and Caribbean to NCUC, I already advanced including the USD
2,500 for the NCUC through Prof. Milton Muller.

We are addressing a project to Brazilian Internet Steering Committee to spread
and in order to enlarge discussions to civil society organizations about
Internet governance in
in Brazil and echo the discussions what it has been having in the ICANN for
we wake the interest of the organizations in the NCUC / ICANN.

I’ll wait for your comments, so that I can give the direction and solve them
disputes what we have now. I want to recognize in public the importance of
having Carlos Afonso as NCUC chair in this process of decentralizing of ICANN
besides the frontiers and the majority members of north Americans and of all
enormous importance that Carlos has in Brazil and in the Latin America.

I am a witness of his personal dedication and of the enormous effort
that he has
been undertaking for the NCUC, although of being a person very much
asked inside
Brazil and in the Latin America besides his strong involvement in the
international forums. I wanted that any organization could take a
Carlos Afonso
as a volunteer and member for the level of knowledge and dedication
that he has.

Hugs to all and I wait that we have received you well in Sao Paulo. This
group has enormous importance for the marvelous persons that take part of it,
thanks for all and sorry about my English.

Marcelo Fernandes



Quoting Robin Gross <robin at IPJUSTICE.ORG>:

> Hi there NCUC'ers:
>
> I thought I'd post a few words to the list about the Sao Paulo ICANN meeting.
>
> 1.  LSE Report on GNSO Reform
> Our constituency should get its comments in regarding the
> recommendations in the LSE Report on GNSO reform within 2 weeks.
> Milton has already provided some comments and I don't mind making the
> next edit to his comments and then posting that to the list.  Our
> statement should be in within 2 weeks.
>
> 2.  New gTLDs and Draft GNSO Recommendations
> Our constituency should submit its comments on the draft proposal for
> the new gTLDS within the next few weeks also (due 20 Dec).  The
> current proposal is terrible.  It would model speech for the Internet
> on ancient 19th century treaty language (trademarks) and forbid any
> words in new gTLDs that have religious, sexual, or political
> connotations.  It would put ICANN in a position to engage in massive
> censorship and choose between competing standards of morality and
> religions.  Besides being wrong on pure censorship grounds, the
> proposal is completely unworkable and would put an enormous burden on
> ICANN staff to evaluate "worthiness" between competing claims,
> evaluate business plans, review financial statements, etc of new gTLD
> applicants.   It would also put a lot of legal liability on ICANN and
> open it up to numerous lawsuits from any party who felt ICANN
> wrongfully awarded a gTLD to a competitor.  I can post more detailed
> comments on this issue to the list so we can begin to prepare our
> constituency statement.  Its very important we provide comments on
> this issue.
>
> Also at our meeting with the GAC, we were told the GAC wants to be
> mostly content-neutral and isn't pushing for the same level of
> restrictions as the current GNSO draft recommendations are.   But GAC
> is clearly concerned about controlling geographical terms in new
> gTLDs.
>
> 3.  Contractual terms
> This was discussed on the list and I believe Mawaki submitted NCUC's
> comments.
>
> 4.  WHOIS
> The NCUC workshops on whois were interesting.   I estimate about 40
> people in the room at the end of the 1st workshop.   Martin Boyle of
> the UK was not able to attend after all due to the GAC vote on whois
> (GAC could not reach an agreement on whois).   A representative from
> the FTC attended and asked a lot of questions.  Rodin did not have
> much to say to indicate what her views on the whois issue are.
> Vittorio joined the panel and described the situation in Italy.   I
> wasn't able to attend the 2nd workshop because I had to go to the
> GAC-Board open meeting.  But I was told it was a very engaging
> discussion (although with less people).
>
> Avri, Wendy, and I submitted a proposal to waive publication of whois
> data - except the DNS technical contact.  The proposal is in line
> with the Wellington GNSO vote confirming the narrow technical purpose
> for the whois database.  The proposal is in response to the new
> IPR/Biz Const. "special circumstances" proposal that attempts to
> over-ride the compromise OPOC proposal.  The "special circumstances"
> proposal puts enormous barriers in front of anyone who wants or needs
> to protect their privacy.
>
> 5.  NCUC Elections
>  ** Important:  We need to have elections - like now.   We need to
> have re-elections for our executive committee and a GNSO seat.   Who
> is in charge of elections around here?
>
> 6.  ALAC won the ICANN soccer tournament.
>
> That's all I can remember at the moment.   What else?
>
> Norbert?  Mawaki?  Carlos?    ..... Bueller?
>
> :-)
> Robin
>