Good point David,

We have yet to see a non commercial aspect of this topic.  There may be 
one.  Not something which I had considered.

Lou

On 2/4/2013 1:30 AM, David Cake wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> 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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