Registrants Rights DT

[karen banks]

thanks bill

look forward to working with folk on this

karen

At 12:50 02/06/2009, William Drake wrote:
>Hi Karen,
>
>I wrote to Glen asking her to add you and 
>Konstantinos to the registrants rights drafting 
>team & listserv, you should get notice from her 
>shortly.  So I believe the team is now
>
>Avri Doria - GNSO Chair -NCA
>Chuck Gomes - GNSO Vive Chair Registry c.
>Tim Ruiz -  Registrar c.
>Stéphane van Gelder - Registrar c.
>Adrian Kinderis - Registrar c.
>William Drake -  NCUC
>Baudouin Schombe NCUC
>Karen Banks NCUC
>Konstantinos Komaitis NCUC
>Alan Greenberg -  ALAC
>Daniel Monastersky - ALAC  (LACRALO)
>Beau Brendler -  ALAC
>Evan Leibovitch  ALAC
>
>In response to your question and others raised 
>by Konstantinos privately, the group has yet to 
>get started, there's been no traffic on the 
>list, so there are no documents or  established 
>work patterns to point to.  But things will have 
>to get going soon.  If I recall correctly (don't 
>have access to everything here) we have 30 days 
>from Board approval of the RAA amendments on 21 
>May to put together the team/mandate and until 
>end July to draft a charter, something like 
>that.  I'm copying Avri as well as Alan, one of 
>them can undoubtedly clarify.  Also copying 
>other ALAC folks who indicated they wanted to be 
>involved.  ALAC did some work on this in the 
>past that we can draw on in thinking about what 
>kinds of public interest oriented provisions 
>we'd like to see and could reasonably ask for 
>under the terms of the board resolution etc, as 
>well as longer term priorities.  In any event, 
>there should be close cooperation between NCUC 
>and ALAC folks on this, including (one would 
>hope) on outreach to potentially interested 
>civil society people who are not presently 
>involved in either group.  I suppose as a first 
>step we ought to set up a listserv and share 
>pointers to background docs and dialogues etc.
>Perhaps I should add---and this will undoubtedly 
>surprise you to no end---that when this was 
>discussed in the council a month or two back 
>there was a lot of push from the biz c to 
>narrowly define the mandate, abandon use of the 
>term "charter of rights," and so on.  Presumably 
>the monkey business will get back into full 
>swing once the list starts firing up.  Should be 
>a heartening complement to the attacks on NCSG council seats, charter, etc.
>
>Best,
>
>Bill
>
>
>karen banks wrote:
>>hi robin
>>
>>Could you count me in for group 2, thanks (and, 
>>would you mind point me to any useful updates 
>>on this group's work? i'm afraid i haven't 
>>followed the discussion in NCUC this past month or so..)
>>
>>karen
>>
>>At 17:08 01/06/2009, Robin Gross wrote:
>>>In follow-up to our constituency call today, 
>>>we are looking for volunteers for the following 3 new NCUC teams:
>>>
>>>1.  New gTLD group to work on a response to 
>>>the new gTLD proposals (concern for free 
>>>expression, high costs, IRT "wish list", 
>>>favoritism of entrenched interests over innovators, etc).
>>>
>>>2.  New group to provide input into the 
>>>Registrant Rights Charter discussion (bring in 
>>>outside expertise and craft positions on a 
>>>Registrant Rights Charter, work with At-Large/ALAC, etc).
>>>
>>>3.  NCUC Membership Committee (develop and 
>>>implement ideas to bring in new non-commercial 
>>>members and increase participation in NCUC and ICANN).
>>>
>>>Please let me know if you are interested in 
>>>participating in ANY of the above new NCUC 
>>>teams that are being set up (or if you have any questions on them).
>>>
>>>Thank you!
>>>Robin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>IP JUSTICE
>>>Robin Gross, Executive Director
>>>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA  94117  USA
>>>p: +1-415-553-6261    f: +1-415-462-6451
>>>w: http://www.ipjustice.org     e: 
>>>robin at ipjustice.org <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>
>
>
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>William J. Drake
>Senior Associate
>Centre for International Governance
>Graduate Institute of International and
>Development Studies
>Geneva, Switzerland
>william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
>www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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