Jacque and all, I for one am very greatful for Milton's informing those of interest that the NCUC will be providing some form of remote participation in Paris. Hopefully the same can be done for Egypt. I am afraid and somewhat disallusioned in reading Milton's evaluation in a positive light that an increase in participation and from 14% to 25-33% of "noncommercial users (public interest groups, NGOs, and individuals of a public interest bent)". It seems rather self defeating and non-representative to limit such representation and participation arbitrarily. Why not allow without restriction or constriction of any and all interested parties ( meaning users of all types ) participation and representation individually? -----Original Message-----

From: "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam@jacquelinemorris.com> Sent: Jun 13, 2008 8:31 PM To: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, 'LAC Discuss' <lac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: [At-Large] [Fwd: [Fwd: [governance] the public interest in ICANN]]

Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:

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Hi everyone here's some info on remote participation for the ALAC-NCUC meeting on 24 June in Paris. The GNSO reform will be discussed which re-aligns the power structures in the GNSO which deals with gTLD issues in ICANN. It's an opportunity for more CS participation in this particular ICANN structure. Jacqueline Milton L Mueller wrote:

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At the Paris meeting of ICANN June 23 - 28 some reforms may be made which could greatly improve ICANN's representative structure. In a nutshell, representation of noncommercial users (public interest groups, NGOs, and individuals of a public interest bent) will be increased from its current 14%, possibly to 25% or one-third. This will also involve a change in the nature of noncommercial interest representation in ICANN. We'd like to invite all civil society organizations with an interest in the Internet and its global governance to be aware of this and take advantage of it. So we are using online collaboration tools to extend the meeting between the ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) globally. You do not have to go to Paris to participate. NCUC will be using the Elluminate platform to permit remote participation in the meeting. Attendees will be able to pose questions or participate in the discussion. They will be able to hear discussions going on in the meeting.

The civil society meeting will be held Tuesday June 24, from 14:00 - 18:00 Paris time. The first two hours will be a general policy issue discussion for noncommercial organizations, the second half (from 14:00 - 18:00) will coincide with the joint meeting between the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). Here are some sample world times:

UTC/Paris 14:00-18:00 Delhi 19:30-23:30 Moscow 18:00-22:00 Sao Paulo 11:00-15:00 New York 10:00-14:00 Los Angeles 07:00-11:00 Hong Kong 22:00-02:00

To enable your participation, first install the Elluminate java-based Client. You can do this at any time, the sooner the better. To setup a client, use this link <http://internetgovernance.org/usingelluminate.html>

Once that is complete, on the date and time of the meeting go to the event listing on the IGP website <http://internetgovernance.org/events.html#NCUC_062408> and click "Join Meeting Online" An alternative link to join the meeting can be found here: <http://cotelcocave.syr.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1213081884178>

Please relay this information to appropriate parties.

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Subject: [governance] the public interest in ICANN From: "Milton L Mueller" <mueller@syr.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:41:13 -0400 To: <governance@lists.cpsr.org>

To: <governance@lists.cpsr.org>

At the Paris meeting of ICANN June 23 - 28 some reforms may be made which could greatly improve ICANN's representative structure. In a nutshell, representation of noncommercial users (public interest groups, NGOs, and individuals of a public interest bent) will be increased from its current 14%, possibly to 25% or one-third. This will also involve a change in the nature of noncommercial interest representation in ICANN.

We'd like to invite all civil society organizations with an interest in the Internet and its global governance to be aware of this and take advantage of it. So we are using online collaboration tools to extend the meeting between the ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) globally. You do not have to go to Paris to participate. NCUC will be using the Elluminate platform to permit remote participation in the meeting. Attendees will be able to pose questions or participate in the discussion. They will be able to hear discussions going on in the meeting.

The civil society meeting will be held Tuesday June 24, from 14:00 - 18:00 Paris time. The first two hours will be a general policy issue discussion for noncommercial organizations, the second half (from 14:00 - 18:00) will coincide with the joint meeting between the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC).

Here are some sample world times:

UTC/Paris 14:00-18:00 Delhi 19:30-23:30 Moscow 18:00-22:00 Sao Paulo 11:00-15:00 New York 10:00-14:00 Los Angeles 07:00-11:00 Hong Kong 22:00-02:00

To enable your participation, first install the Elluminate java-based Client. You can do this at any time, the sooner the better. To setup a client, use this link <http://internetgovernance.org/usingelluminate.html>

Once that is complete, on the date and time of the meeting go to the event listing on the IGP website <http://internetgovernance.org/events.html#NCUC_062408> and click "Join Meeting Online"

An alternative link to join the meeting can be found here: <http://cotelcocave.syr.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1213081884178>

Please relay this information to appropriate parties.

Milton Mueller Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology ------------------------------ Internet Governance Project: http://internetgovernance.org ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: governance@lists.cpsr.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org

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