draft agenda for NCUC constituency day in Dakar!!

Nicolas Adam nickolas.adam at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 22 17:34:00 CEST 2011 

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On 10/22/2011 10:26 AM, Hakikur Rahman wrote:
> I support.
>
>
> At 14:50 22-10-2011, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>> I support.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis
>> <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk <mailto: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 <rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM
>>     <mailto:rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM> <mailto:rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM>>
>>     Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:04:56 +0100
>>     To: Konstantinos Komaitis <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk
>>     <mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk> <mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>>
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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 <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk
>>     <mailto: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
>>     tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
>>     <tel:%2B44%20%280%29141%20548%204306><tel:%2B44%20%280%29141%20548%204306>
>>     http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765
>>
>>     Selected publications:
>>     http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038
>>     Website: www.komaitis.org <http://www.komaitis.org>
>>     <http://www.komaitis.org <http://www.komaitis.org/>>
>>
>>
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