Ct is some kind of a typo -- it should read "elect" 


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> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-
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> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Draft NCSG petition, please review
> 
> MM, I was on travel with nearly no access to email for a week, so my
> reply is a bit late. Looks OK to me, except the phrase in 2.2.2 item 1
> which says "1. Political organizations whose primary purpose is to
hold
> government office and/or ct government officials;"
> 
> Is "ct" short for "certain"? I think we need to be especially clear
> here. In Brazil all political parties are formally NGOs, for example.
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> Milton L Mueller wrote:
> > Dear members:
> >
> > Attached is the draft charter for the Noncommercial Stakeholders
Group
> > that some of us in the Executive Committee have been working on.
> >
> > I'd like to send this to the Board in a week or so, so if you are
> > interested in the future structure of the NCSG please review it and
> > voice your approval, or propose modifications.
> >
> > It tries to follow the basic framework we have been discussing, but
with
> > some modifications based on our post-Cairo discussions.
> >
> > We've raised the threshold for constituency formation a bit; instead
of
> > any 5 members, the minimum level of support will be EITHER 3
> > organizational + 3 individual members, OR 10 individual members.
> >
> > In order to prevent gaming the constituency structure, we've also
> > imposed a limit on the number of constituencies any member can join:
3.
> >
> >
> >
> > Attached as a Word doc. If there are a lot of proposed amendments
and
> > things get complicated I will put it into Google docs or something.
> >
> > --MM
> >
> >