[NCUC-DISCUSS] Resigning from representing the Open Institute in NCUC

[Robin Gross]

Dear Norbert,

Thank you so very much for your long committed service to noncommercial users and the positive development of the Internet over the years.   I am very grateful for your persistent work to make the Internet more accessible, which has no doubt benefitted countless noncommercial Internet users and will continue to do so.  I feel very lucky to have worked closely with you, including our time together representing noncommercial users on the GNSO Council (and in the ICANN football tournaments :-) ).

I know you will stay engaged and continue to make the world a better place, wherever you find yourself.  Thank you very much!!!

Best,
Robin


> On Feb 3, 2017, at 9:45 PM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends in the NCUC Fellowship,
> 
> My first participation was in the Santiago de Chile meeting, 24-26 August 1999. I just happened to be in Germany for personal reasons around that time, and so the additional air fare from Germany to Chile was cheaper than if I had to pay from Cambodia to Chile. An Internet veteran from another country in Asia who knew about my work in Cambodia helped to pay the hotel costs in Chile. - I had established the first Internet access from Cambodia via UUCP, using expensive international telephone dial-up, establishing and operating for some years the ccTLD for the country: .kh for “Khmer”, then, organizing with international and Cambodian friends to define the Khmer script for Unicode. And such work continued after Santiago de Chile, getting the Khmer script accepted in Unicode, helping to get a team with competent leadership working on creating Cambodian language software – Open Source, including Linux – with applications for text, e-mail, Web etc. All this when I was on the staff of the Open Forum, later the Open Institute of Cambodia, which is also the basis for our NCUC membership.
> 
> If I remember correctly, Santiago was also one of the first meetings of the beginning of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency within ICANN. We did not use so much acronyms like “NCUC” - the full name signaled what we were standing for: a constituency which did not consider commercial values a top priority in the development of the Internet. And it was a stepping stone towards the UDRP...
> 
> I am happy to have been part of this history – as member, then in the NCUC executive committee, later sent to represent our voice in the GNSO, and finally for two years in the ICANN Nomination Committee.
> 
> Time is running – I am no longer in the capital city of Phnom Penh, but old and – actively – retired far away in the countryside. Between some hills, there is only a not so stable access to the Internet - “The Internet is for everyone?” well, not - and not only because of financial or technical restrictions.
> 
> With this mail I want to announce my resignation from representing the Open Institute of Cambodia in the Non-Commercial Users Constituency – I have the agreement of Open Institute leadership; there is nobody who will take over from me.
> 
> Thanks for all the good cooperation in the past – the struggles for clarity and acceptance, and the commitment to our goals, even when things were going into directions we did not want to identify with.
> 
> Anybody visiting Cambodia? You are welcome – let me know.
> 
> Norbert Klein
> nhklein at gmx.net
> Kep / Cambodia
> 
> 
> 
>