This means you are in, right? Great!
Are you coming to Sampa?
fraternal regards
--c.a.
Norbert Klein wrote:
> 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
>
> =
>
>
>
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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:
>
> = = =
> 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.
> = = =
>
>
> Please let me know what I have to do so that I can become a full
> member of the IDN working group.
>
>
> Norbert
>
>
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