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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">On 8-Dec in Cartagena, Philip Sheppard circulated a statement supporting the petition to create a non-profit constituency. The p</span><span style="font-family: Optima; ">etition is at </span><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/improvements/npoc-charter-redacted-07dec10-en.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/improvements/npoc-charter-redacted-07dec10-en.pdf</a></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">Philip's original note is shown at the bottom of this note. </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">14 BC members immediately supported Philip's suggestion and Marilyn Cade suggested an additional point. No objections have been registered.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">The deadline for comment on this proposal was extended to 30-Jan-2011 after the proponents modified their mission statement. (new mission is "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><i>The purpose of the Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency shall be to represent, specifically, the operational concerns related to service delivery of not-for-profit and non- governmental organizations who are domain registrants in the DNS</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; ">" )</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">On Monday's BC call, let's discuss points the BC should make in indicating support for the petition. Here's what we have so far from Philip and Marilyn: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">The Business Constituency supports this petition to form a new non-profit </span><span style="font-family: Optima; ">Constituency in the GNSO. </span></div></blockquote><div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">We believe this petition is timely, since it follows a GNSO restructuring that enables diversification within the non-contract house.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">We believe there are </span><span style="font-family: Optima; ">common interests between this new constituency and our own, since both r</span><span style="font-family: Optima; ">epresent registrants and users of the DNS.</span></div></blockquote></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">--</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">Steve DelBianco</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">vice chair for policy coordination</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><div style="font-family: Optima; text-align: left; color: black; border-bottom-width: medium; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-width: medium; border-left-style: none; border-left-color: initial; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-style: solid; border-right-width: medium; border-right-style: none; border-right-color: initial; padding-top: 3pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From: </span>Philip Sheppard <<a href="mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be">philip.sheppard@aim.be</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Date: </span>Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:24:46 +0100<br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To: </span><<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject: </span>[bc-gnso] Proposed non profit constituency</div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">We ran out of time at the Cartagena BC meeting to agree to send a</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">spportive statement to public comments to welcome the formation of the new</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">NPOC. We had a presentation of the new constituency from Debbie Hughes at</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">the CSG meeting earlier in the day. This constituency is the outcome we</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">have been striving for in the composition of the new non conract parties</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">house.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">I'd like to propose we make the following statement to public comments as</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">the BC.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">'"The Business Constituency welcomes the proposal to form a new non-profit</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">consituency. We believe this is timely. We believe there will be areas of</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">common interest between this new constituency and our own, both</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">representing as they do users of the DNS.''</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">Perhaps we could agree to send this on a no objections basis rather than</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Optima; ">have to put it through our usual policy 14 day window.</span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>