[EC-NCSG] NCSG Membership Application of National Grange / James Bikoff (follow-up)

[Robin Gross]

Yes and it isn't just a NCSG rule, but a GNSO-wide rule that only lets a person participate as a member of 1 stakeholder group (i.e. no "double dipping" by trying to join as many GNSO Stakeholder Groups at the same time to influence policy to one's advantage in an unfair way).   Mr. Bikoff spent the entire week in Costa Rica as a lobbyist for the IOC.  He took the microphone many times and always began by saying he was a member of the Intellectual Property Constituency - and I was surprised because he had just applied to join NCSG as well.

This is becoming a serious problem: we've had over half a dozen applications to join NCSG from members of the IPC in recent months and obviously this kind of gaming and manipulation cannot continue to go on without a statement.  We may need to write a formal complaint to the IPC, the Board, or the Ombudsman so the IPC will stop playing these games.

Regards,
Robin

On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Dear fellow EC members:
> Having attended the Costa Rica meeting and having seen Bikoff in person, where he represented and caucused with the IPC and made no effort to attend NCSG meetings or even inquire about it as far as I know, I would have to rule his application as ineligible due to the provision against allowing membership to organizations or persons who are already part of another GNSO constituency.
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> From: ec-ncsg-bounces at ipjustice.org [mailto:ec-ncsg-bounces at ipjustice.org] On Behalf Of Robin Gross
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:32 PM
> To: ec-ncsg at ipjustice.org
> Subject: [EC-NCSG] NCSG Membership Application of National Grange / James Bikoff (follow-up)
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> Dear NCSG Executive Committee Members:
> 
> In follow-up to the last discussion on the applicant National Grange on 5 March 2012
> < http://mailman.ipjustice.org/pipermail/ec-ncsg/2012-March/000053.html >
> 
> James Bikoff wishes to represent National Grange in NCSG.
> 
> We haven't heard from anyone in the EC on this NCSG membership application, so please provide your response by the end of this week so I can get back to this applicant.  Reminder: All applications are all saved in the Google Docs shared folder for NCSG-EC.  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
> 
> Regards,
> Robin
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