[ncsg-policy] Re: [ncsg-ec] RE: my review of the staff's edit to our SG charter.

[Milton L Mueller]

> 
> Any org merely structured, itself, as an NPO that nevertheless has a
> formally stated mission in its own articles of incorporation to serve
> the interests of a for-profit/commercial "secondary" constituency does
> not serve the interests of a non-commercial constituency.


Agreed, Dan. And this has been our practice and our rule in the past. When Amber says that this criterion allows for too much subjectivity I have to disagree. We are mandated to look at the mission of an organization and the services it provides to its members. If they are a nonprofit oriented toward promoting the political or industry interests of commercial entities, such as the RIAA or the American Petroleum Institute, or if the nonprofit is simply an organizational form for providing services to a commercial membership, such as some standards organizations for telecom companies I am familiar with, then it's obvious they are ineligible and incompatible with the whole purpose of NSCG. There is a CSG for those kinds of organizations. This is not really a complicated issue. 


Milton L. Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Internet Governance Project
http://blog.internetgovernance.org 
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What about to use the forthcoming open IGF Consultations in Geneva to raise "the new generation of censorship" issue in public?

wolfgang


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Von: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at SYR.EDU]
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I'd be happy to do that, Robin.



Don't want to detract from our NCSG, intra-ICANN efforts, but I think public mobilization is far more important at this point than fine-tuning statements. I am working on some next moves. Although we've already generated some momentum in the blogo- and twittersphere, I have some evidence that this issue may soon break into the larger-scale media attention. My University's social media people are eager to put together some kind of an event. Basically I'm fishing for ideas about what kind of an activity - our own little equivalent of occupying Tahrir Square - would be most productive. Obviously it should be timed for just before the end-February Brussels meeting.



Perhaps Milton can "hold the editing pen" on the 1st statement above?