As NPOC treasurer (no funds) and NPOC delegate to the NCSG Finance Committee (no funds) I support the proposed Charter wording. Sam L. Quoting Raoul Plommer <plommer@gmail.com>:
Dear members of NPOC,
Our new charter is finally at the stage, where we will send it to staff to do their own review. Here it is:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HRcUOxtoMUzJnfXhXm-wpJd3vDmVRG9uFTRyojOA...
If no new comments have arrived to it by Friday (25.10.), we'll send it off to staff before our F2F meeting in Montreal.
The only bit that was changed since the last iteration, was the mission. Here's the new version:
"1.2 NPOCâs mission is to represent Not-for-Profit Organizations by addressing their operational concerns with the generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs). Operational Concerns are defined as issues arising from the use of the gTLDs by the not-for-profit organizations to achieve their own mission. Those can include but are not limited to Domain Name Fraud, Intellectual Property Abuse, Privacy, Security, Stability, and Resiliency, as well as transparent registration process and pricing and continued ownership of domain names."
The only change to it from older versions was the highlighted part "process and pricing", as we felt it'd be good to specify what kind of transparency we'd want. Supposedly, without the specification, one could think we'd want the registrants' information to be public. That's not what we want.
-Raoul
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