We have seen tremendous growth in membership over the past year, which reflects a growing interest in Internet governance within civil society worldwide and recognition that the NCUC is the most effective vehicle for influencing ICANN policy. NCUC now has 101 members in over 40 countries — including 64 organizational and 37 individual members, representing […]
At the Paris meeting (Jun 2008), the NCUC decided to open up nonvoting membership to individuals. If you have registered domain names for personal, family or noncommercial use; if you are an Internet user who is primarily concerned with the public interest aspects of domain name policy, and is not represented in ICANN; or you […]
My name is Alex Gakuru. I am the Chairman, ICT Consumers Association of Kenya, an irrepressible individual Internet users’ rights lobbyist, hereby making a personal view of the IRT proposal before ICANN. 1.Free expression: The proposal will curtail online expression which will be counter-productive to our ongoing efforts on expanded IPv6 online expression space. We […]
Noncommercial Users Constituency Submits its COMMENTS ON SUBSTANTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE IRT FINAL REPORT. A CALL FOR RIGHTS OF REGISTRANTS TO BE PROTECTED, FOR .TRADEMARK LAWYER ABUSE. TO BE RECOGNIZED, AND FOR IRT/IPC/TRADEMARK PROTECTION PROPOSALS TO BE DISMISSED OR REVISED TO FIT WITHIN THE SCOPE AND MISSION OF ICANN AND THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF […]
Noncommercial Users Constituency Submits its COMMENTS ON PROCEDURAL ASPECTS OF THE IRT FINAL REPORT. A SUGGESTED ROADMAP FOR MOVING FORWARD ((Filed with ICANN on July 6, 2009-http://forum.icann.org/lists/irt-final-report/) These are the comments of ICANN.S Non-Commercial User Constituency (NCUC), a group which dates back to ICANN.s founding and has actively and fully participated in all policy-making proceedings […]
IP Justice is a nonprofit public benefit organization based in San Francisco that promotes balanced intellectual property rights in Internet law and policy. Founded in 2002, IP Justice has an international board of directors and members in countries from all corners of the globe. IP Justice participates at ICANN via the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC). […]
In Sydney, the Board’s Structural Improvements Committee caved in to business pressure and made two decisions that are almost unbelievable in the degree to which they discriminate against civil society and completely ignore public comments. For the full explanation, see this. We need to make it clear that we won’t accept the staff’s proposed NCSG […]
ICANN Ignores Non-Commercial Users in Internet Policy Development Process Everyone is a Noncommercial User of the Internet The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the home to noncommercial users in ICANN’s GNSO policy development process. NCUC represents 112 members from more than 40 countries, and includes large organizations, small nonprofits and individuals committed to developing Internet […]
On Monday, ICANN held its second public consultation of the new gTLD plan (the first being Sydney). More than half the day was devoted to the IRT Report- the Intellectual Property Constituency’s plan to expand trademark rights in the new gTLDs. I was there as our NCUC representative. Below is the text of my speech. […]
I.ve just returned from ICANN’s new gTLD meeting in London, where the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) presented its skewed vision of protection mechanisms for new gTLDs. London was the second stop of a consultation process, which started in New York and will finish in Abu Dhabi in the beginning of August (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm). The idea behind […]