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/ >> >> >