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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div>Thanks to Philip for starting the drafting process for a BC position on this new stakeholder group. </div><div><br></div><div>This comment period closes 23-Jan-2011</div><div>See <a href="http://icann.org/en/public-comment/#npoc-petition-charter">http://icann.org/en/public-comment/#npoc-petition-charter</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Let's allow a week of list discussion, then circulate a proposed position for 14-day member review and approval. This means all interested members should now begin comment on-list on your draft:</div><div><br></div><div><div>"The Business Constituency welcomes the proposal to form a new non-profit</div><div>consituency. We believe this is timely. We believe there will be areas of</div><div>common interest between this new constituency and our own, both</div><div>representing as they do users of the DNS.''</div></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Steve DelBianco</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>On 12/8/10 3:24 PM, "<a href="mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be">philip.sheppard@aim.be</a>" <<a href="mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be">philip.sheppard@aim.be</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><br></div><div>We ran out of time at the Cartagena BC meeting to agree to send a</div><div>spportive statement to public comments to welcome the formation of the new</div><div>NPOC. We had a presentation of the new constituency from Debbie Hughes at</div><div>the CSG meeting earlier in the day. This constituency is the outcome we</div><div>have been striving for in the composition of the new non conract parties</div><div>house.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to propose we make the following statement to public comments as</div><div>the BC.</div><div><br></div><div>'"The Business Constituency welcomes the proposal to form a new non-profit</div><div>consituency. We believe this is timely. We believe there will be areas of</div><div>common interest between this new constituency and our own, both</div><div>representing as they do users of the DNS.''</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we could agree to send this on a no objections basis rather than</div><div>have to put it through our usual policy 14 day window.</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline 10 December ?</div><div><br></div><div>Philip</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>