I support this as an NCSG individual member, and would support NCSG signing
on to this as a whole.

Dan



At 10:25 PM -0800 12/28/14, Robin Gross wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>If any of NCSG's member organizations (or NCSG as a whole) would like to
>sign-on to this civil society statement regarding a GAC sub-group's
>proposal to give governments veto power on new top level domain names that
>use "geographic names" please let me know asap.
>
>The GAC sub-group's proposal on "geographic names" and other comments
>submitted on this proposal are available here:
>  https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/Governmental+Advisory+Committee
>
>The GAC's deadline for comments is 31 December, so please let me know by
>30 December if your civil society organization would like to sign-on to
>this joint civil society statement; it is currently open for sign-on by
>other civil society organizations until 30 December.  Or send in your own
>comment on the proposal if you are so inclined (at the link above) by 31
>December.  Holiday deadlines are tough, I know!
>
>I think this is a very important policy issue for protecting freedom of
>expression and the positive development of the multi-stakeholder model for
>Internet governance.
>
>Thanks very much!
>
>All best,
>Robin
>
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