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

[Mueller, Milton L]

Norbert
I am so sorry that you will not be able to represent Open forum with us anymore. 
You were there for us in the very beginning and served an important role in providing a regionally diverse perspective in the earliest days of NCUC. You served on the GNSO Council and always provided important insights in our processes. 
I wish you could come to one more ICANN meeting so we could give you an appropriately loud and happy sending off party. 

Regards,

MM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norbert Klein [mailto:nhklein at gmx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 12:45 AM
> To: ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
> Subject: Resigning from representing the Open Institute in NCUC
> 
> 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
> 
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