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Subject: Document of the NCUC!
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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 
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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? 
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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 




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