Dear all,

As was discussed on the NCUC Constituency Call today, we need for  
each member of NCUC to send an email to ICANN and demand that  
noncommercial users be listened to by ICANN as to how we can best  
organize ourselves and represent our interest in the policy  
development forum at ICANN.

Given the extremely short timeframe (the current deadline for  
submitting comments is Tuesday 21 July), on the call we agreed that  
we should ask for an extension of a few days (like the Registry  
constituency did) to give members of the community who are just now  
hearing about the issue an opportunity to comment.   So I'm going to  
ask that we are given an extension until next Friday the 23rd (like  
the Registry constituency did) so members have time to prepare  
comments and file them.  We decided it is more important to have  
comments on the record than to worry about what others think of us  
for requesting an extension.

However it is very important that noncommercial users speak out on  
this issue and stand up to ICANN's improper imposition.   So please  
send in your comment to ICANN asap (I'm not sure we can get the  
extension, so plan to submit your comment by 21 July - Tuesday.

The comments don't have to long.  In fact, short, brief, to the point  
comments tend to be the clearest to easiest to understand.

For background on this issue, here is an article I wrote:
http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCUC-ICANN-Injustices.html

And here is Milton's comment that he submitted on this issue:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00001.html

Here is the background on this comment period:
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#stakeholder

The email address to send your comment to is:
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The public comments are posted to ICANN's website here:
   http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/

Thank you very much!

Best,
Robin






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