special thanks to Kathy and Katitza

[Kathy Kleiman]

Thanks to Robin, and to Rebecca!
My thought is that this meeting's success was due to Robin's leadership
and to the participation of every single NCUC person who attended.
I was thrilled that so many joining NCUC for their first meeting spoke
to the issues at the ICANN microphones.
We had great floor speeches from Dave, Leslie, Rebecca, Kim and others
from EFF Australia.'

It was fun to be among friends.
It was fun to fight for the right among allies.

As Katitza says,
We are a great team!

Safe travels all,
Kathy
> congratulations to Kathy, Katitza and Robin for working so hard! The
> NCUC has been heard loud and clear on the IRT.
>
> Sorry I went AWOL yesterday afternoon but China's censorship situation
> went into overdrive on Wednesday night with the temporary blocking of
> Google.com, Gmail and other services and I had to catch up on
> developments, answer some calls, and plug back into a Global Network
> Initiative discussion on how companies should respond to the situation
> going forward... in China and elsewhere.  I know this is beyond
> ICANN's current scope, as ICANN doesn't get involved with national
> filtering policies as long as they don't break the global DNS... so it
> may not be an appropriate subject for this list or for NCUC. But
> nonetheless I imagine it's of concern to many on this list.
> An overview of where things stand in China now:
> http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/chinas-censorship-blowback.html
>
> See in particular the Declaration of Anonymous Netizens addressed to
> China's censors in English:
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp7hnsf_3ktp563gh
> in Chinese:
> https://docs.google.com/View?id=df563ttp_0c4tt2fdp
>
> Best,
> Rebecca
>
> 2009/6/26 Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>>
>
>     NCUC was very effective this week at the ICANN meeting in getting
>     our message across on various issues at the public forum sessions
>     (like the problems with the IRT report and GNSO restructuring).
>
>     There is no question that we have Kathy Kleiman and Katitza
>     Rodriguez to thank for much of this.  The energy and experience of
>     Kathy and Katitza has made all the difference in the world for
>     NCUC here this week.  At every opportunity they took the floor and
>     advanced NCUC's position on the issue being discussed.  They were
>     constantly busy talking with others in the community to understand
>     where we are coming from and to clear up much of the
>     misrepresentation of NCUC that we so frequently face at ICANN.
>
>     Thank you Kathy and Katitza!  We are building a stellar team and
>     I'm so encouraged for our future.  Thank you!!
>
>     Best,
>     Robin
>
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> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University of
> Hong Kong
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