NPOC Comment Re: Member Admission Process and Member Databases

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sep 22 22:08, Sam Lanfranco (lanfran at YORKU.CA) wrote:

> This NCSG discussion about member admission process and member
> databases has churned up again a number long standing and important
> issues and NPOC, as the constituency focused on Not-for-Profit
> operational concerns within ICANN’s remit, will have a longer
> comment to share by mid-week. Thus far the discussion has flagged a
> number of issues that could be divided into: (a) internal NCSG
> housekeeping (membership databases); (b) issues to be examined that
> reside within the NCSG Charter; and (c) issues that would be more
> appropriately addressed within a Charter review.

Yes. In particular, merging the databases would, I think, 
be beneficial regardless of the other, let's say political
considerations.

Note that even with a single database it would be easy to have
distinct views for different uses, members listings for different
constituencies could appear as different as desired (even in different
websites), but a common back end would ensure consistency and avoid
duplicate work (members would not have to notify constituencies and
NCSG separately of address changes, for example).

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Tapani Tarvainen