<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It is fair to say that the founders of NPOC were very IP friendly, way back around 2010, but that was several generations of NPOC leadership again, and it is also fair to say that it does not represent a current NPOC consensus policy position (I say as current, though still very new, NPOC Policy Committee chair). <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Jul 2018, at 2:25 am, Tatiana Tropina <<a href="mailto:tatiana.tropina@GMAIL.COM" class="">tatiana.tropina@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Michael,<div class="">the problem of these "early disagreements" is that the EPDP charter has a fundamental flow - section J (as Ayden and I stated) so it's not just disagreements, the section J is a serious problem that indeed might just by a sheer presence in the scope of the EPDP set it for failure. I say "might" as I do hope it won't. </div><div class="">I also found the "IP-Friendly NPOC" line rather amusing :-) even with Ayden's explanation, it's still amusing a bit, taking into account the Pirate Party vice chair :-) </div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Tanya </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 July 2018 at 19:26, Michael Karanicolas <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mkaranicolas@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">mkaranicolas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Bit of a click-baity headline. Obviously the EPDP is facing a<br class="">
challenging task, but it seems to be a bit of an overstatement to say<br class="">
it's doomed to fail just because of these early disagreements.<br class="">
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I was also struck by the line that NPOC is "IP-friendly". Presumably<br class="">
that will come as a surprise to their Vice Chair, who was (I believe?)<br class="">
a founder of the Pirate Party of Finland...<br class="">
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" class="">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> Hi all,<br class="">
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> I am sharing this article for information purposes, as three of your<br class="">
> Councillors on the GNSO Council have been mentioned by name within it:<br class="">
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> Is the new Whois policy group already doomed to fail?<br class="">
> DomainIncite (24 July 2018)<br class="">
> <a href="http://domainincite.com/23201-is-the-new-whois-policy-group-already-doomed-to-fail" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://domainincite.com/23201-<wbr class="">is-the-new-whois-policy-group-<wbr class="">already-doomed-to-fail</a><br class="">
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> I would encourage you to read this article.<br class="">
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> If you have any questions regarding how we voted on July 19, please let us<br class="">
> know, either on-list or off-list, as you prefer. We are accountable, after<br class="">
> all, to you.<br class="">
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> Best wishes,<br class="">
> Ayden Férdeline<br class="">
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