[[--Translated text (es -> en)--]] Subject: Document of the NCUC! From: josefranciscoarce@gmail.com For some Reason I do not arrive the attached file. It goes again with the text in message also. Greetings Jose F. Arce. www.ar.ageiadensi.org CIVIL TOP TEN MYTHS ABOUT SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN ICANN > From The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) 21 August 2009 ______________________________________________________________________________ Myth 1 "Civil Society won't participate in ICANN to under NCUC's proposal charter." False. Civil ICANN staffers and others claim that society is discouraged from engaging AT ICANN because NCUC's proposal charter does not guarantee GNSO Council seats to constituencies. The facts could not be to further from the truth. NCUC's membership includes 143 noncommercial organizations and individuals. Since 2008 NCUC'smembership there are increased by dwells 215% - largely in direct response to civil society'ssupport for the NCUC charter. Not to single noncommercial organization commented in the public comment forum that hard-wiring council seats to constituencies will induces to their participation in ICANN. None of the noncommercial organizations that commented on the NCSG Chartersaid they would participate to ICANN only if NCSG's Charter secured the constituencies to guaranteed seat on the GNSO. Myth 2 "groups Dwells civil society will get involved if the Board intervenes." To it completes illusion. Board imposition of its own refusal charter and its to list to civil society groups will be interpreted ace rejection of the many groups that commented and ace discrimination against civil society participation. Noncommercial ICANN's reputation among groups will be irreparably damaged unless this action is reversed or to compromise is found. Even if we were to accept these actions and try to work with them, the total impact of the staff/SIC NCSG charter will be to handicap noncommercial groups and make them less likely to participate. The appointment of representatives by the noncommercial Board disenfranchises groups and individuals. The constituency-based SIC structure requires toomuch for organizational overhead most noncommercial organizations to sustain; it also pits groups against each to other in political competition for you vote and members. Noncommercial Most organizations will not to enter the ICANN GNSO to under those conditions. Myth 3 Civil The outpouring of society opposition dog be dismissed ace the product of to ' letter writing campaign.' An outrageous claim. Civil Overwhelming society opposition to the SIC charter you emerge not eleven, but twice. In addition, there is the massive growth inNCUC membership stimulated by the to broader community's opposition to the staff and Board actions. Attempts to minimize the degree to which civil society you have been undermined by these developments plows simply not going to work, and reveal to shocking degree of insularity and arrogance. ICANN is required to have public comment periods because it is supposed to lists to and be responsive to public opinion. Public opinion results from networks of communication and public engages in a dialog on controversial issues, including organized calls to action. Not policy or bylaw gives ICANN staff the authority to decides that it dog discount or ignores nearly all of the groups who have they taken an interest in the GNSO reforms, simply because they have taken to position critical of the staff's. ICANN's "Top 10 Myths Civil About Society Participation in ICANN" by NCUC 2 attempt to discount critical comments by labeling them to "letter writing campaign "undermines future participation and confidence in ICANN public processes. Myth 4 "Civil society is divided on the NCSG charter issue." Wrong. There you have to never been such an overwhelmingly lopsided public comment period in ICANN's history. While ICANN's staff is telling the civil Board that society is divided, the to clear, documented consensus among civil society groups you have been against the ICANN drafted NCSG charter and in favor of the NCUC one. Board members who rely only on staff-provided information may believe civil society is divided, but Board members who have actually read the public comments civil dog see the solidarity of society against what ICANN is trying to impose on them. Myth 5 "civil Existing society groups plows not representative or to diver enough." Standard Untrue by any reasonable. Civil The current society grouping,the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC), now there are 143 members including 73 noncommercial organizations and 70 individuals in 48 countries. This is an increase of dwells than 215% since the parity principle was established.1 Noncommercial participation in ICANN is now dwells to diver itself they than any to other constituency, under it is completely to unfair to level this charge AT NCUC without applying it to others. Even back in 2006, an independent report by theLondon School of Economics showed that NCUC was the most to diver geographically, had the largest to number of different people serving on the GNSO Council to over Time, and the highest to turn-over in council representatives of any of the 6 constituencies. In contrast, the commercial users' constituency there are recycled the same 5 people on the for Council to decade and upon the GNSO "reform", the first 3 of 6 GNSO Councilors from the Commercial Stakeholder Group will represent the United States. Myth 6 "ALAC prefers the ICANN staff drafted charter to over the civil society drafted charter." False. One ALAC to leader said that she prefers the staff drafted charter. ICANN staff ran away with this comment and falsely told the ICANN Board of Directors that ALAC prefers the staff drafted charter. In fact, the formal statement actually approved by ALAC said that many members proposal of ALAC supported the NCUC and that "the of-linking of Council seats from Constituencies is to very good move in the right direction." Myth 7 "The NCUC charter would give the same small group 6 you vote instead of 3." False. For the past 8 months, NCUC there are stated that it will dissolve when the NCSG is formed. Sense It does not make to have to "Noncommercial Users Constituency" and a "Noncommercial Stakeholders Group, "ace they plows synonymous terms. Thus, NCUC leaders would not be in 1 We encourage those GNSO constituencies who claim is NCUC isinsufficiently large enough to deserve representational parity with commercial users on the GNSO Council to publish to their own constituency's current membership to roster, ace NCUC does AT: to http://ncdnhc.org/page/membership-roster. "Top 10 Myths Civil About Society Participation in ICANN" by NCUC 3 control of to new NCSG - to completely new leadership would be elected. Under the NCUC proposal charter, all noncommercial groups and individuals would votes on Council seats, not just to former NCUC members. Strict geographic diversity requirements would pisses that candidates from throughout the world would have to be selected even if they could not get to majority of total you vote. Myth 8 "council NCUC will not share seats with to other noncommercial constituencies." Wrong. NCUC's proposed charter was designed to allow dozens of new noncommercial constituencies to form AT will and to advance to their own candidates for Council seats. Given the diversity and breadth of NCUC's membership, many different constituencies with competing agendas to plows likely form. The organic, bottom-up self-forming approach to constituency formation is much to better than the board/staff approach - and dwells consistent with the BGC recommendations. The SIC charter makes constituency formationvery top-heavy and difficult, and gives the staff and Board arbitrary to power to decides how "representative" or "significant" new participants plows. Because it ties constituencies to Council seats, every new constituency instigates to power struggles to over the allocation of Council seats. Myth 9 "The NCUC wants to take away the Board's right to approve constituencies." False. People who said this have obviously not read the NCUC-proposed charter. NCUC's proposal let the board approve or disapprove of new constituencies formed to under its proposed charter. Simple proposal Our simply offered to apply some, objective criteria (e.g., to number of applicants) to new constituency groupings and then make to recommendation to the Board. The idea was to reduces the burden of forming to new constituencyfor both the applicants and the Board. Proposal NCUC's made it easy to form new constituencies, unlike the SIC charter, which makes it difficult to form new constituencies. Myth 10 "The purpose of to constituency is to have your very own GNSOCouncil Seat." False. Some claim GNSO Council seats must be hard-wired to specific constituencies because a constituency is meaningless without to guaranteed GNSO Council representative. However this interpretation fails to understand the role of constituenciesin the new GNSO, which is to give a voice and to means of participation in the policy developmentprocess -- not to guaranteed councilor who there are little stimulates to reach beyond to her constituency and find consensus with to other constituencies. Two of the to other three to stakeholder groups (Registries and Registrars) adopted NCUC's charter approach of decoupling GNSO Council seats to constituencies, but NCUC you have electing been prevented from its councilors on to SG-wide basis. JOIN NCUC Noncommercial All organizations and individuals plows invitedto join NCUC and participate in policy development in ICANN's GNSO. Bring your experience andyour perspective to Internet policy discussions and help protect noncommercial users of the Internet by participating AT ICANN via the NCUC. Join today: http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp? "Top GLOSSARY OF ICANN ACRONYMS ALAC - AT-Large Advisory Committee ICANN's AT-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is responsible forconsidering and providing advice on the activities of the ICANN, ace they relates to the interests of individual Internet users (the "AT-Large" community). gTLD - Generic Top Level Domain Most TLDs with three or dwells characters plows referred to ace "generic" TLDs, or "gTLDs". They dog be subdivided into two types, "sponsored" TLDs (sTLDs) and "unsponsored TLDs (uTLDs), ace described in dwells detail below. In the 1980s, seven gTLDs (com, edu, gov, int, mil, net, and org) were created. Domain names may be registered in three of these (com, net, and org)without restriction; the to other four have limited purposes. Over the next twelve years, various discussions occurred concerning additional gTLDs, leading to the selection in November 2000 of seven new For TLDs introduction. These were introduced in 2001 and 2002. Four ofthe new TLDs (biz, info, name, and pro) plows unsponsored. The to other three new TLDs(aero, coop, and museum) plows sponsored. GNSO - Generic Names Supporting Organization The GNSO is responsible for developing policy recommendationsto the ICANN Board that generic relates to top-level domains (gTLDs). The GNSO is the body of 6 constituencies, ace follows: the Commercial and Business constituency, the gTLD Registry constituency, the ISP constituency, the non-commercial constituency, the registrar's constituency, and the IP constituency. However, the GNSO is in the process of restructuring away from to framework of 6 constituencies to 4 to stakeholder groups: Commercial, Noncommercial, To register, Registry. The Noncommercial and Commercial Stakeholder Groups to together make up the "Non-contracting Parties House "in the new bicameral GNSO; and the Registrar and Registry Stakeholder Groups will to together comprise the "Contracting Parties House" in the new GNSO structure (beginning Oct. 2009). ICANN - for The Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers For The Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that there are responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol to identifier assignment, generic (gTLD)and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain Name System management, and root server system management functions "Top 10 Myths Civil About Society Participation in ICANN" by NCUC 5 NCUC - Noncommercial Users Constituency The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the home for noncommercial organizations and individuals in for the Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). Real With voting to power in ICANN policy making and Board selection, it develops and supports positions that protect noncommercial communication and activity on the Internet. NCUC works to promote the public interest in ICANN policy and is the only noncommercial constituency in ICANN's GSNO (there plows 5 commercial constituencies). The NCUC is open to noncommercial organizations and individuals involved in education, community networking, public policy advocacy, development, promotion of the arts, digitalis rights, children's welfare, religion, to consumer protection, scientific research, human rights and many to other area. NCUC maintains to website AT http://ncdnhc.org. NCSG - Noncommercial Stakeholders Group The GNSO is in the process of being restructured from "6 constituencies" to "4 to stakeholder groups ", including to Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) into which all noncommercial organizations and individuals will belong for policy development purposes, including members of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC). The NCSG and the Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG) will to together comprise the "Non-contracting Parties House "in the new bicameral GNSO structure beginning October 2009. LINKS TO BACKGROUND INFORMATION: NCUC Letter to ICANN Board and CEO on NCSG Controversy Charter: http://bit.ly/BiOg8 Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC): http://ncdnhc.org NCUC submitted NCSG proposal charter: http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/ncsg-petition-charter.pdf Robin Gross on "Is ICANN Accountable to the Public Interest": http://ipjustice.org/ICANN/NCSG/NCUC-ICANN-Injustices.html ICANN GNSO Chair Avri Doria on "Why I Joined the NCUC": http://tiny.cc/EPDtx Internet Governance Project: "4 ICANN Board members dissent in vote on NCSG charter ": http://tiny.cc/S5CjP 2006 London School of Economics Independent Report on GNSO: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-15sep06.htm [[--Original text (es) http://mm2.icann.org/transbot_archive/274507d0af.html --]]