Dear NCUC Friends,
especially:
Dear NCUC-GNSO Friends,

I would like to let you know that I expressed my interest to participate
in the IDN-WG of ICANN (and why), and the response I got from the GNSO
Council chairperson.


Norbert Klein

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    Hello Norbert,

    As a member of the non-commercial constituency you are entitled to join,
    as confirmed by the Council meeting today. Glen please add Norbert to
    the mailing list, and list of members.

    As you are joining after the process for electing a chair has started,
    you will not be included in the current vote.

    Your participation and expertise in this area will be most welcomed.

    Regards,
    Bruce Tonkin

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    *From:* Norbert Klein [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
    *Sent:* Friday, 17 November 2006 4:56 AM
    *To:* Bruce Tonkin; [log in to unmask]
    *Subject:* Expression of Interest to Join the Proposed charter for GNSO
    IDN working Group

    Dear Glen,
    Dear Bruce,

    though I look forward to be online for the next GNSO teleconference
    in an hour or so (the rainy season is over in Cambodia, and that
    means also that the Internet is more stable with less
    rain-degradation of the satellite traffic), I would like to express
    my interest in joining the IDN Working Group for which you shared
    the proposed charter.

    After I had established the first connection to the Internet from
    Cambodia in 1994 and created (and administered for some years) the
    ccTLD .kh for Cambodia, I was strongly involved in the UNICODE
    codification of the Khmer script, and then - during the last two
    years - in a NGO-government cooperative approach, in the creation of
    Khmer language software and its promotion all over the country.

    It is natural that I have been looking, as a next step to be taken,
    into IDN for the Cambodian context.


    All these past efforts were difficult in different degrees because
    of the fact that Cambodia is an economically poor country, and has a
    scarcity of trained human resources in many fields. Having been in
    contact with people in other countries of Asia - especially also
    from smaller countries - I got the impression that we share some
    similar systemic and structural difficulties.

    My interest in joining the IDN working group is therefore not only
    Cambodia oriented, but I think I could also represent some of the
    general concerns of the "small" countries in a context which is -
    naturally and understandably - dominated to quite some extent by
    technical experts, which hardly exist in our environment. But all
    the more it is important to consider the practical implications for
    small countries or language and script groups, which are affected -
    or disregarded - while the Internet tries to move toward a situation
    described in the first paragraph of the Geneva WSIS Declaration of
    Principles:

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    Our Common Vision of the Information Society
    1.We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, assembled in
    Geneva from 10-12 December 2003 for the first phase of the World
    Summit on the Information Society, declare our common desire and
    commitment to build a people-centered, inclusive and
    development-oriented Information Society, *where everyone can
    create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge,
    enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full
    potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving
    their quality of life,* premised on the purposes and principles of
    the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding
    the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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    Please let me know what I have to do so that I can become a full
    member of the IDN working group.


    Norbert