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On March 30, NCUC Executive Committee members asked ICANN's board to discard an unusual motion that was railroaded through the GNSO Council. A special GNSO drafting team bypassed the normal policy making process and made a last-minute change in policy in order to give the International Olympic Committee and the Red Cross special privileges in the upcoming new top level domain application process. The drafting team ignored public comments and even tried to short-circuit the public comment…

Tomorrow, December 15, 2011,  the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary will meet to markup and potentially vote in committee on H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” or SOPA. Today the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - of which ISOC-NY is…

http://ncdnhc.org/events/ncsg-open-policy-discussion

All NCSG Council members are requested to attend.

All NCSG members are encouraged to attend.

Candidate Constituency Members who are not yet NCSG members are also invited to attend.

Apologies for getting the time wrong.

http://ncdnhc.org/events/invitation/new?eventId=2233151%3AEvent%3A8347&creatingEvent=1

(31 March 2011)   IP Justice submitted a statement today in response to the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding its relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

In its submission, IP Justice argued that ICANN…

NCUC@ICANN: Internet Governance and the Global Public Interest

11 March 2011 – Westin St. Francis Hotel - San Francisco

http://www.tinyurl.com/NCUC-SF

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Please support NCSG's response to the US Government's recent proposal regarding government objections to new gTLDs and calling for heightened government authority and trademark protection. The GAC is meeting with the ICANN Board in Brussels on 28 February & 1 March 2011 to discuss these issues, so we welcome your support and circulation of our position that this proposal does a complete runaround the ICANN process of community consensus and represents a substantial threat to freedom of…