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Le 25/03/09 23:23, « Ginger Paque » <gpaque@gmail.com> a écrit :<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Tahoma"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><B>De:</B> Ian Peter [<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com]">mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com]</a> <BR>
<B>Enviado el:</B> Miércoles, 25 de Marzo de 2009 03:10 p.m.<BR>
<B>Para:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org; 'Milton L Mueller'<BR>
<B>Asunto:</B> RE: [governance] Proposed text for a sign-on or IGC statement re: ICANN NCSG<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Hi Milton, thanks for getting this underway.<BR>
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I’ll leave detailed comment to others, but unless there is strong disagreement I can’t see why this can’t be a statement from the Caucus as a whole, rather than just members who sign on. That would change some of the wording at the top to simply “The Internet Governance Caucus wishes to express our support” (with perhaps a phrase on who the Caucus is)<BR>
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Anyway sign me up!<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Tahoma"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><B>From:</B> Milton L Mueller [<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu]">mailto:mueller@syr.edu]</a> <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> 26 March 2009 03:14<BR>
<B>To:</B> 'governance@lists.cpsr.org'<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [governance] Proposed text for a sign-on or IGC statement re: ICANN NCSG<BR>
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The organizations and individuals listed below are members of and participants in the civil society Internet Governance Caucus. We wish to express our support for version 6.0 of the Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) charter developed by the Noncommercial Users Constituency. While there may still be room for minor improvements, we believe that the basic principles on which the charter is founded provide the fairest and most effective basis for civil society representation in ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization. <BR>
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We specifically support the proposal because:<BR>
* It was developed transparently and with many opportunities for input by relevant ICANN participants;<BR>
* It makes it easy to form constituencies or affinity groups, but avoids fragmentation of noncommercial stakeholders into independent constituencies with separate mailing lists, administrative structures and representatives; <BR>
* It permits individual membership in the NCSG and does not require individuals to fit themselves into arbitrarily-defined categories that may not correspond to their interests and needs;<BR>
* It fosters representation of minority viewpoints in consensus-based Working Groups, but does not rigidly assign votes to small factions, instead offering them a chance to build consensus<BR>
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We also note that the alternative charter proposal seems designed to give a specific faction guaranteed Council seats and does not foster global, geographically diverse representation. <BR>
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We appreciate ICANN’s effort to make its GNSO more representative and urge you to ratify and accept the NCSG charter.<BR>
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