draft agenda for NCUC constituency day in Dakar!!

Sat Oct 22 16:26:14 CEST 2011

I support.

At 14:50 22-10-2011, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>I support.
>
>On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Konstantinos 
>Komaitis <<mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
>Yeap  JAS will be briefly discussed at the NCUC 
>constituency day and I would like to encourage 
>NCUC members to endorse this statement. I would 
>also like to encourage this statement to be 
>submitted as an NCSG position  it is a very 
>important issue and many hours have been logged 
>on by both Rafik and Avri in order to make sure 
>that support is provided to applicants from developing countries.
>
>Thanks
>
>KK
>
>From: Rafik Dammak 
><<mailto:rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM>rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM<mailto:rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM>>
>Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:04:56 +0100
>To: Konstantinos Komaitis 
><<mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>>
>Cc: 
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>Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] draft agenda for NCUC constituency day in Dakar!!
>
>Hi Konstantinos,
>
>I would like to ask an item for the agenda 
>regarding JAS, it will be topic for the public 
>forum (and board is expected to make decision 
>about the JAS final report). ALAC is planning to 
>make statement too. thanks to Avri for works done on the proposed statement.
>
>Rafik
>
>*******************************************************************
>
>The NCUC wishes to congratulate the JAS WG on 
>the recommendations it has made to enable the 
>new gTLD program to become one that gives a fair 
>chance to the developing world.  As the NCUC, we 
>have been arguing for policies in support of 
>fairness since the time when the new gTLD policy 
>was first being discussed in the GNSO and have 
>continued this by active participation in the 
>JAS WG, including having members serve as the 
>JAS WG co-chair.  We are heartened to see that 
>this effort is now being championed by the GAC 
>and the ALAC and want to once again lend our voice to the call for fairness.
>
>We encourage the Board to approve all of the 
>measures in the JAS report, and wish to single 
>out a few that we believe need immediate 
>approval and implementation.  Without question, 
>the fee reduction as recommend in the JAS 
>report, where all qualified development economy 
>applicants pay a reduced fee of $47, 000 USD, is 
>necessary if the new gTLD program is to be 
>considered fair.  Even charging development 
>economy applicants $47,000 USD will be a 
>challenge, but we understand the need for 
>applicants to have some degree of financial 
>stake in the application.  To require more would 
>exclude these applicants from any chance of 
>making an application in this round.  We accept 
>the arguments as given in the JAS 
>recommendations that making these fee reduction 
>is consistent with the policy recommendation of 
>the GNSO and accept the proposals offered in 
>that document of ways in which the reserve fund 
>portion of the collected fees and the 
>expectation of auction funds can be used to 
>satisfy the requirements for a self funding new gTLD application process
>
>We also support the suggestion in the report, as 
>well as suggestions made by others that the 
>continuity instrument required by applicants 
>need to be made more affordable for the 
>development economy applicant.  The requirements 
>in the current Application Guidebook, will be 
>incredibly difficult for regular applicants 
>would be a complete barrier to any applicant 
>from a developing economy.  This needs immediate redress.
>
>Finally we urge the Board to accept the proposal 
>in the JAS recommendation for a Board organized 
>working group to create an ICANN Foundation that 
>would as its first goal be able to raise and 
>distribute funds to assist developing economies 
>in meeting the other expenses of creating 
>registries to serve the populations of the 
>world's developing economies.  We appreciate the 
>seed funds offered by the ICANN Board and 
>encourage those who have financially benefited 
>so greatly from domain name industry and from 
>their involvement with ICANN to contribute 
>generously to build on this seed once the 
>Foundation is created.  In the meantime we 
>encourage all those who can, to publicly pledge 
>to such a fund in anticipation of its creation.
>
>
>
>
>
>2011/10/20 Konstantinos Komaitis 
><<mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>>
>Dear all,
>
>In preparation for the constituency day 
>(Tuesday, October 25, 2011)in Dakar, find below 
>a draft agenda. Please suggest topics and/or 
>issues that you would like us to discuss during the NCUC meeting.
>
>Thank you
>
>KK
>
>Proposed Agenda for NCUC
>
>
>1.        Membership issues
>
>2.       Policy issues (WHOIS, UDRP, Outreach 
>Task Force WG, domain name takedowns etc.)
>
>3.       Forthcoming NCUC elections (Chair and NCUC EC)
>
>4.      Constituency relations
>
>5.       Updates from NCUC Councillors
>
>6.      Policy strategy and goals.
>
>PS: I will be posting the dial in details in the 
>website within the next few days.
>
>Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
>
>Senior Lecturer,
>Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses
>Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law
>University of Strathclyde,
>The Law School,
>Graham Hills building,
>50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA
>UK
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>
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