Fwd: NPOC membership consultation on proposed JAS Support Statement in Dakar

Mon Oct 24 01:09:28 CEST 2011

Thanks Alain – does this mean that NPOC is supporting the JAS statement?

KK

From: Alain Berranger <alain.berranger at GMAIL.COM<mailto:alain.berranger at GMAIL.COM>>
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:20:23 +0100
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Subject: [NCSG-Discuss] Fwd: NPOC membership consultation on proposed JAS Support Statement in Dakar

Dear NCSG Colleagues,

FYI. For those of you in Dakar, I hope you are enjoying the good weather and beauty of La Pointe des Almadies!

You will note my personal view in favor of the NCUC support statement to JAS.

A very first but not last NPOC/NCUC - hence an NCSG consensus we hope, will emerge out of this consultation...

Best, Alain

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From: Alain Berranger <alain.berranger at gmail.com<mailto:alain.berranger at gmail.com>>
Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:12 PM
Subject: NPOC membership consultation
To: npoc-voice at icann.org<mailto:npoc-voice at icann.org>

Dear NPOC Colleagues,

Our Colleagues Debbie Hughes and Michael Carson are representing NPOC at current Dakar ICANN meetings.

This is an historic moment in our young Constituency's life: our first consultation! Please participate!

Would you please go over the proposed JAS (see paragraph below for acronym's meaning) support statement in email below to be issued in Dakar next Tuesday, and if you agree or if you have no objection, please respond to the mailing list. Your comments and suggestions most welcome of course!

As most NPOC members are new, here is a very quick review for your reference:

Please see http://newgtlds.icann.org/ for the latest on applying for a new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) name.

The Joint SO/AC Working Group on New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS) was created to evaluate and propose recommendations regarding specific support to new gTLD applicants in justified cases. The final report is available at https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/22970578/Final_Report_JASWG+%28Sept+2011%29_Seth+created_Submitted.pdf. The JAS was very intent on making sure developing economies' applicants would be included in the support.

Alain Berranger, one of the undersigned, participated in the later stages of the JAS work and feels this support statement is amply justified.

Thanks for your response soonest!

Alain Berranger on behalf of
Your interim NPOC Executive Committee
Debbie Hughes, Founder and interim member
Amber Sterling, Chair (interim)
Alain Berranger, Vice-Chair (interim)
Klaus Stoll, Membership Committee Chair (interim) and NPOC Representative to NCSG Policy Committee
Michael Carson, NPOC Representative on NCSG Executive Committee (interim)
Judy Branzelle, NPOC Representative to NCSG Policy Committee (interim)

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From: Konstantinos Komaitis <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>>
Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] draft agenda for NCUC constituency day in Dakar!!
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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<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<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

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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<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,
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