[EC-NCSG] Fwd: us-ignite membership application to join NCSG

[Alain Berranger]

Dear colleagues,

I do not recall having been consulted on the first decision to deny
membership.

In any case, I have now completed my due diligence on this organization and
am in favor of accepting their application for NCSG and NPOC memberships.

In confidence, you will probably not receive an evaluation from Lori, as
she has just announced her resignation from her position of Vice-chair of
NPOC for personal reasons. I will speak to each one of you in person about
this.

We need to speed up the membership approval process. It looks like I am the
only one to have completed the last 9 applications we had to consider. But,
maybe I missed something. We will talk more about this tomorrow.

Best, Alain

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, Robin Gross wrote:

> Dear NCSG-EC Members:
>
> US-Ignite has asked for re-consideration of its NCSG membership
> application.  Please see below.
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Glenn Ricart <gricart at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'gricart at gmail.com');>>
> *Date: *October 16, 2012 7:16:39 AM PDT
> *To: *Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'robin at ipjustice.org');>>
> *Subject: **Re: us-ignite membership application to join NCSG*
> *Reply-To: *GRicart at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'GRicart at gmail.com');>
>
> Robin -
>
> Your unnamed members of the Executive Committee are incorrect on both
> points.
>
> 1.  The US Ignite non-profit has no formal or governance connections to
> the US Government.  The confusion is due to the fact that the US Government
> has a parallel US Ignite Initiative which coordinates activities of US
> Federal Agencies in support of similar objectives.  The US Ignite
> non-profit which I represent is a membership organization including 26
> community members and 16 corporate members which works toward
> next-generation Internet applications.  The US Ignite non-profit has
> received US Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) tax exemption.
>
> 2.  It is very much in operation, and has been for 18 months.  I have been
> a formal employee since January 1, 2012, and we  now have five full-time
> period and 2 part-time people on board.  The web site at www.us-ignite.orgis quite active and updated regularly.  If you subscribe to @US_Ignite, you
> will find a regular stream of tweets.  I invite you to watch a nationwide
> music collaboration as part of the Chattanooga Riverfest and which includes
> a shout-out to US Ignite.
>
> T-Bone Burnett & Chuck Mead "The Wild Side Of Life"<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGeppaEX3Uc&feature=youtu.be>
>
> Although I appreciate the need for a gatekeeper function, I think you have
> mis-judged a worthy non-commercial organization, and request
> reconsideration for membership forthwith.
>
>   ....  Glenn
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'robin at ipjustice.org');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear Glen,
>>
>> The NCSG Executive Committee did not accept the membership of US Ignite
>> because several members questioned its relationship to government and
>> whether or not the organization was currently in operation.  If you believe
>> this determination was made in error, please feel free to send any
>> follow-up information so I may forward it to the NCSG Executive Committee
>> for their re-consideration.
>>
>> Thank you for your interest in joining NCSG.
>>
>> All best,
>> Robin Gross
>> NCSG Chair
>
>
>
>
>
>
> IP JUSTICE
> Robin Gross, Executive Director
> 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA  94117  USA
> p: +1-415-553-6261    f: +1-415-462-6451
> w: http://www.ipjustice.org     e: robin at ipjustice.org <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', 'robin at ipjustice.org');>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
Member, Board of Directors, CECI,
http://www.ceci.ca<http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/>
Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
Treasurer, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, www.gkpfoundation.org
NA representative, Chasquinet Foundation, www.chasquinet.org
Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, http://npoc.org/
O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824
Skype: alain.berranger


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