Yes congratulations to Kathy, Katitza and Robin for working so hard! The
NCUC has been heard loud and clear on the IRT.

Sorry I went AWOL yesterday afternoon but China's censorship situation went
into overdrive on Wednesday night with the temporary blocking of Google.com,
Gmail and other services and I had to catch up on developments, answer some
calls, and plug back into a Global Network Initiative discussion on how
companies should respond to the situation going forward... in China and
elsewhere.  I know this is beyond ICANN's current scope, as ICANN doesn't
get involved with national filtering policies as long as they don't break
the global DNS... so it may not be an appropriate subject for this list or
for NCUC. But nonetheless I imagine it's of concern to many on this list.
An overview of where things stand in China now:
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/chinas-censorship-blowback.html

See in particular the Declaration of Anonymous Netizens addressed to China's
censors in English:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp7hnsf_3ktp563gh
in Chinese:
https://docs.google.com/View?id=df563ttp_0c4tt2fdp

Best,
Rebecca

2009/6/26 Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]>

> NCUC was very effective this week at the ICANN meeting in getting our
> message across on various issues at the public forum sessions (like the
> problems with the IRT report and GNSO restructuring).
> There is no question that we have Kathy Kleiman and Katitza Rodriguez to
> thank for much of this.  The energy and experience of Kathy and Katitza has
> made all the difference in the world for NCUC here this week.  At every
> opportunity they took the floor and advanced NCUC's position on the issue
> being discussed.  They were constantly busy talking with others in the
> community to understand where we are coming from and to clear up much of the
> misrepresentation of NCUC that we so frequently face at ICANN.
>
> Thank you Kathy and Katitza!  We are building a stellar team and I'm so
> encouraged for our future.  Thank you!!
>
> Best,
> Robin
>
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