Dear ICANN: IP Justice appreciates this opportunity to provide public comment. Founded in 2002, IP Justice is an international civil liberties organization that works on intellectual property and Internet law and policy issues. IP Justice is a noncommercial 501(c)(3) public benefit organization based in San Francisco with an international board of directors and members in […]
The following message was posted today on the ICANN public comments board. Dear ICANN: My name is Laura DeNardis, Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project, an intellectual center at Yale Law School which examines the implications of the Internet for law and society. I wish to express my concern that the Noncommercial Stakeholder […]
Here’s APC’s comment on the NCSG Transitional Charter: To the Board The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a global network of civil society organisations whose mission is to empower and support organisations, social movements and individuals in and through the use of information and communication technologies to build strategic communities and initiatives for the […]
The IGP filed comments today in ICANN’s second proceeding on GNSO Stakeholder Group Charters. In its comments IGP identified both substantive issues in the revised NCSG charter proposal drafted by ICANN policy staff, as well as procedural flaw in ICANN’s proceeding. In light of these concerns, IGP asked that ICANN immediately drop its attempt to […]
NCUC Comments on the Proposed CSG Charter 23 July 2009 The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) welcomes this opportunity to comment on the various Stakeholder Group (SG) charters that have been put up for consideration and community discussion. NCUC also appreciates the fact that ICANN Staff have attempted to set some uniform standards of transparency, openness, […]
NCUC Comments on the Proposed NCSG Charter 23 July 2009 The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) welcomes this opportunity to comment on the various Stakeholder Group (SG) charters that have been put up for consideration and community discussion. Nonetheless, NCUC is compelled to state in the strongest possible terms that the current ICANN drafted NCSG Charter, […]
11 AUGUST 2009 NCUC Monthly Constituency Meeting Scheduled for: Tuesday 11 August 2009 from 15:00 – 17:00 UTC To be held via Elluminate online meeting software. Follow this link. Need volunteers to take running notes of meeting discussion please. Other Time Zones: 08:00 – 10:00 – California 11:00 – 13:00 – New York 12:00 – […]
According to this article http://tinyurl.com/qs9glp the US patent office awarded this patent to Microsoft nearly five years after initial filing. At this point I an can only say that I feel it is on it’s face wrong. Not to mention that this was granted after after some international organizations (quasi-public at least) already recognized this […]
18 August 2009 TO: The ICANN Board of Directors and Mr. Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO RE: Call to the ICANN Board to Correct Problems with the NCSG Charter, and to Address Continuing Misperceptions about Noncommercial Involvement in ICANN This letter comes from nearly 150 individual and organizational members of ICANN.s Non-Commercial Users Constituency […]