Re: [ga] NCUC

["James S. Tyre" <jstyre@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugh,

Would you be kind enough to give some specific examples / more 
details of what you mean with respect to EFF?  There have been times, 
in the somewhat distant past, when EFF has been involved in some 
manner in ICANN related issues.  To my knowledge, however, there's 
nothing recent of any significance.
(I am an EFF Fellow, and, as such, it's fair to say that I know more 
about what EFF does than most.  But I'm not involved in every EFF 
issue, am not a staff attorney, do not claim to know literally 
everything that EFF does.  Perhaps you do know of something that I don't.)
-Jim

At 09:29 AM 6/26/2010 -0700, Hugh Dierker wrote:
> This constituency interests me.  I do not like the membership 
> criterion but I can see it has its' place. 
> <http://ncdnhc.org/>http://ncdnhc.org/
> The biggest problem that I am having with the idea is the "anti" 
> commercial aspect. In this regard they seem to be a bit antagonistic 
> toward registrants.  They also seem a little against any new 
> constituencies -- as I can tell they do not want to dilute their stake.
> In this same vein I am seeing a very "grab the headlines" approach 
> by EFF.  I have not been inspired by a writing of theirs for quite sometime.
> They are well funded. They are well organized. They attack wrong 
> when ----  well I do not really know how they decide, seems a little 
> strange.  But they do nothing that I can see to get the people fired 
> up.  They are not helping to organize "grass roots" "bottom-up" support.
> Again it would appear they are caught in worrying about diluting 
> their stake,, generally of funding.
> I could use an education on this and gladly look forward to it.

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