Hi, Happy to hear NCUC was well represented with more and more diverse voices and that those on the ground deemed the meeting a success. So what does the latter mean with respect to the various problematic issues that were generating gloomy messages a couple days ago? Bylaws, charter, etc? Thanks, Bill On Jun 26, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Kathy Kleiman wrote: > Thanks to Robin, and to Rebecca! > My thought is that this meeting's success was due to Robin's > leadership and to the participation of every single NCUC person who > attended. > I was thrilled that so many joining NCUC for their first meeting > spoke to the issues at the ICANN microphones. > We had great floor speeches from Dave, Leslie, Rebecca, Kim and > others from EFF Australia.' > > It was fun to be among friends. > It was fun to fight for the right among allies. > > As Katitza says, > We are a great team! > > Safe travels all, > Kathy >> 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 >> >> >> IP JUSTICE >> Robin Gross, Executive Director >> 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA >> p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 >> w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Rebecca MacKinnon >> Open Society Fellow | Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org >> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University >> of Hong Kong >> >> USA: +1-617-939-3493 | HK: +852-6334-8843 >> Mainland China: +86-13710820364 >> >> E-mail: [log in to unmask] >> Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rmack >> Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/rebeccamack > *********************************************************** William J. Drake Senior Associate Centre for International Governance Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland [log in to unmask] www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html ***********************************************************