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Dear Felipe,<br>
<br>
Viviane
Reding(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/reding/index_en.htm">http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/reding/index_en.htm</a>) is
trying to put pressure on the ICANN as the representative of
Europea(See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/951&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/951&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en</a>
and her report:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/internet_gov/docs/communication/comm2009_277_fin_en.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/internet_gov/docs/communication/comm2009_277_fin_en.pdf</a>
)<br>
Her motivation: <span lang="NL"> </span><span><em>"The Internet
Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers is approaching a historic point in its
development. Will it become a fully independent organisation,
accountable to the global internet community? Europeans would expect
so, and this is what we will push for. I call on the United States to
work together with the European Union to achieve this."<br>
</em></span><br>
I think that all European pirates should therefore support Mrs Redink.
She needs more weight to be able to form a European block. Simply
sending a statement to the ICANN as a European pirate should have a far
less impact than cooperating with Mrs Redink. Maybe non-european
pirates can use the report Mrs Redink and her colleagues wrote to
support their statement, and to help each other out.<br>
<br>
I hope you find this information usefull. Would it be usefull to send
this data to "DeeDee"?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Robbie Hontelé<br>
<br>
<br>
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Subject: open the internet process!!
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:46:00 -0400
From: DeeDee Halleck <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dhalleck@UCSD.EDU"><dhalleck@UCSD.EDU></a>
Dear friends,
Please read the inclosed letter and take action TODAY-- it is the deadline.
For several years I took part in the deliberations about the World
Summit on the Information Society. I wanted to see what other countries
were doing in regards to community media and to help negotiate a place
for public access within international media regulations and
recommendations. As part of this process I learned a bit about internet
governance. A civil society group was set up (agreed to by ICANN-- the
official international internet organization) to come up with
suggestions for democratizing internet governance. We're not talking
revolution here, but a few participatory gestures, slight, but important.
To the amazement of the civil society group, these suggestions were
completely ignored. ICANN continues to represent only government and
commercial interests.
The hope that there could be civil society participation has been rudely
dashed. However, the group that worked to craft an alternative process
is asking ALL THOSE WHO WORK IN NON-PROFIT MEDIA to weigh in and let
ICANN know how important it is that civil society gets "a seat at the
table".
PLEASE READ THIS AND SEND A STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR A DEMOCRATIC INTERNET.
DeeDee Halleck
Dear Dee Dee,
I am writing with an urgent request that you please send a quick _email_
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-stakeholder-charters@icann.org"><mailto:gnso-stakeholder-charters@icann.org></a> to ICANN to weigh-in
regarding the imposition of the ICANN staff drafted charter for a
Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG).
Without any explanation or justification, ICANN discarded the NCSG
charter that had been drafted by civil society in a consensus process
and submitted to ICANN by NCUC in March - and supported by more than 80
noncommercial organizations and individuals.
Instead, ICANN is attempting to impose precisely the "silo" charter
model that we said would stranglehold us and render us ineffective in
policy development at ICANN.
It is crucial that noncommercial organizations and individuals weigh-in
right now and let ICANN know that the world is watching and expecting it
to live up to its promises of bottom-up processes, accountability, and
democracy.
The governance structures contained within the NCSG charter will be
extremely important for determining how effective noncommercial users
can be in influencing policy decisions at ICANN for years to come. So
if there was ever an issue to weigh-in on, this is the issue - because
it will impact /every issue noncommercial users face in the future/.
*The ICANN Public Comment Period on the charters is open until *_*23
July - Thursday*_* (end-of-business in California)*.
Comments on the draft charters are submitted via email
to _gnso-stakeholder-charters@icann.org_
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnso-stakeholder-charters@icann.org"><mailto:gnso-stakeholder-charters@icann.org></a>.
Thank you for considering this urgent request. If you can find the time
to send a quick email to ICANN before Thursday EOB, it could make a
significant difference for noncommercial users for years to come and I
would greatly appreciate it.
Please let me know if you'd like to discuss this request further.
Thanks again!!
All best,
Robin
Background on Issue with links to docs, see my article: "/Is ICANN
Accountable to the Global Public Interest?/":
_<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCUC-ICANN-Injustices.html_">http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCUC-ICANN-Injustices.html_</a>
IP Justice Statement on Stakeholder Group Charter Injustices:
_<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00012.html_">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00012.html_</a>
Comment from Dr. Milton Mueller (Internet Governance Project):
_<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00001.html_">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/msg00001.html_</a>
Public Comments:
_<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/_">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-stakeholder-charters/_</a>
ICANN Info on submitting comments on stakeholder group charters:
_<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#stakeholder_">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#stakeholder_</a>
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: _<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ipjustice.org_">http://www.ipjustice.org_</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.ipjustice.org/"><http://www.ipjustice.org/></a>
e: _robin@ipjustice.org <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org"><mailto:robin@ipjustice.org></a>_
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