I apologize for repeating the pleas to sign on to a petition to save 
privacy proxy services, but we are still actively recruiting your help.  
As you may recall, we sent the notice listed below a while ago but I 
repeat it again in hopes more of you will respond.
An exciting new development has spontaneously occurred...one of the 
registrars who is not involved with the savedomainprivacy.org campaign 
has emailed all their customers, apparently with a form to generate a 
comment to ICANN.  We are following, with some delight I must say, the 
results of this on the ICANN comments site 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ppsai-initial-05may15/.  As I 
write, the total of signed comments is up to 9257, and this is without 
the results of the savedomainprivacy petition.  We are hoping to make 
this the biggest comment total ever , aiming to surpass 14,000.  Please 
consider adding your plea to protect privacy proxy services.
Kind regards,
Stephanie Perrin
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I wanted to draw to your attention, an proceeding that is taking place 
at ICANN, on an important Internet governance issue.  A working group on 
the accreditation of privacy proxy services, which many endangered 
groups and political/social dissidents use to protect their identities 
from disclosure on WHOIS, has been meeting for a year and a half.  Their 
initial report is up for comments until July 7.  The civil society 
groups who have been actively trying to protect these services from any 
requirements that would price them out of existence, or make many 
organizations ineligible to use them, would appreciate the support of 
human rights groups and privacy advocates everywhere.  There are two 
easy ways to do this:

*Briefing Paper*

The first is a briefing paper prepared by 3 members of the 
Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group,  to give an overview of some of the 
issues and concerns that we feel are still present and need some further 
work. You can find our briefing attached and we welcome any feedback, 
suggestions or comments.

*Savedomainprivacy.org*

A website has also been setup by a number of other stakeholders in this 
process at www.savedomainprivacy.org <http://www.savedomainprivacy.org>. 
Members of the public and interested parties can sign onto a petition to 
protect the ability of registrants to keep their personal information 
private.

I would urge everyone to have a look at both pieces of info and please 
feel free to contact me or any of the other authors if you or your 
organization want further information, or to help you submit your own 
comments during the Public Comments period which will be ending on July 
7^th 2015.

Stephanie Perrin
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