Industry organisations for commercial operators are not within our charter, but advocacy organisations are. 
Cheers
	David

On 04/02/2013, at 1:27 PM, Andrew A. Adams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> You wrote:
>> I have friends who run sex worker activism NGOs (including one that is
>> sex worker run by charter). Next time I see them I'll ask if they want
>> to join NCUC. I think they'd be perfectly welcome here, and would fit
>> in, but I'm not sure how much of a policy priority ICANN issues might
>> be for them (but hey, .xxx, IFFOR, legal restrictions on advertising
>> in some jurisdictions, etc - maybe they do have enough to justify
>> their participation, I don't know).�
> 
> I'm not sure all of these fall within our charter. Remember, there's a rider 
> preventing non-profit organisations that are just representatives of 
> for-profits (e.g. Chambers of Commerce) from joining NCSG.
> 
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> Professor Andrew A Adams                      [log in to unmask]
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
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