message sent to ORG-discuss list

[Kathy Kleiman]

Great message, David, thank you!!

All NCUCers,
Please feel free to distribute a similar message about the NYC meeting
on Monday, 7/13.
Most information is the same; details are, of course, different.
    Hudson Theatre, Millennium Hotel
    145 West 44th Street | New York
NYC Agenda:
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/ny-agenda-speakers-13jul09-en.pdf
Registration link is: same (deadline is 7/10).

I am the contact for NYC and will be getting people together ahead of
time to talk about the issues.
My email is Kathy at Kathykleiman.com

Tx for posting - we definitely need people!
Kathy
(Kathy Kleiman, Esq., Co-Founder, NCUC)
> Here is the message I just sent to ORGs discussion list.
>
> As an aside, has ORG been asked about involvement in NCUC?
> Regards
>     David
>
> At 5:16 AM +0800 8/7/09, David Cake wrote:
>>     I'll be unfamiliar to most of ORG, because I'm an Australian, on
>> the board of Electronic Frontiers Australia over here. But some
>> issues are global, and require global coordination from like minded
>> organisations, so I'm reaching out to ORG members to see if ORG can
>> help with an issue.
>>     ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
>> is the body that oversees and sets policy for domain names on the
>> internet. It is currently preparing to allow many more generic top
>> level domain names (gTLDs), and deciding on the policies that
>> registries for these new top level domains will have to abide by.
>>     As part of that process, a group consisting of trademark lawyers
>> and professionals created a report on protecting trademark owners
>> rights. Many people believe that report goes too far, introducing new
>> rights for trademark owners and heavily slanting the process in their
>> favour, and impacting free speech rights. It includes special rights
>> for large trademark holders, a new process for fast takedown of
>> domain names based on trademark infringement, and would commit ICANN
>> to incorporating intellectual property enforcement into domain
>> registration. This proposal has been rushed through with minimal
>> opportunity for comment so far, so it is vital that criticism and
>> comment from those who believe in free speech and balance in
>> intellectual property enforcement is heard now. The NCUC (Non
>> Commercial Users Constituency), the group within ICANN where most
>> civil rights and free speech organisations with goals similar to ORG
>> are found, is trying to make sure voices critical of this proposal
>> are heard, and we need help from people who can attend the various
>> consultation sessions being held on the issues, including an upcoming
>> session in London.
>>     There will be a New gTLDs global outreach and consultation event
>> in London on 15 July 2009 at the Royal Institute of British
>> Architects, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD.  It's free an open to
>> anyone interested in the issue and having their say.
>>     Registration at <http://www.registration123.com/ICANN/GTLD/>
>> http://www.registration123.com/ICANN/GTLD/
>>     Agenda for London meeting
>> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/london-agenda-speakers-15jul09-en.pdf
>>
>>     If anyone who is interested in the issue can attend, we think it
>> would be really valuable. If you'd be interested in coordinating
>> comments with other non-commercial organisations with a similar
>> agenda, and getting some introduction to the issues, Konstantinos
>> Komaitis <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk> from NCUC will be at the meeting,
>> and hopes to gather and greet those sympathetic to free speech and
>> non-commercial internet use.
>>     And if you wish to read some of our criticisms of the proposal
>> ahead of time, they are available online
>> The NCUC substantive response
>> http://forum.icann.org/lists/irt-final-report/pdf0VWmEpzuNr.pdf
>> The NCUC response to ICANN internal procedural issues to do with the
>> report
>> http://forum.icann.org/lists/irt-final-report/pdftuYUj5owHE.pdf
>>
>>     Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
>>
>>     Regards
>>         David
>>