At 08:01 PM 4/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>APPLICATION AND INFORMATION FORM FOR PARTICIPATION IN NON-COMMERCIAL
>DOMAIN NAME HOLDERS CONSTITUENCY
>Draft June 30, 1999
>
>Please provide the following information in order to participate in
>the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency of the Domain Name
>Supporting Organization of ICANN.
>
>A. Basic Information for Organization
>
> 1. What is the name of your Organization?
Silicon Valley - Public Access Link
> 2. Is the Organization a member of any other constituency in the
>Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN?
No.
> 3. What is the major domain name of the Organization?
svpal.org
> 4. Does the Organization have a website and if so, would you provide
>the URL?
>B. Contact information for Representative of Organization
>
> 1. What is your name and title with the Organization?
Dave Crocker
Member, Board of Directors
> 2. How can other representatives reach you? (email, telephone, fax
>appreciated)
See below.
> 3. How is it that you have come to represent the Organization in
>this
>Constituency? (Please furnish appropriate indication that the Organization
>has authorized your participation, for example, vote of membership, vote of
>directors, action by officer(s) or consensus of members.)
The Board of Directors has voted unanimous support for joining.
From the Chair of the Board:
>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:45:55 -0700
>To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
>From: Abe Mazliach <abem@svpal.org>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: NCDNHC Application and Information Form
>Cc: svpal-directors@svpal.org
>
>Dave,
>
>It is fine with me. Thank you for your interest in this. Please keep us
>informed of anything important for SV-PAL.
>
>Abe
>
>At 5:23 PM -0700 4/29/00, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >I'd like to join this group, on behalf of SVPAL. Is that OK with the Board?
> >
> >d/
> 4. Are there other representatives from your Organization who will
>be participating in this Constituency? Is so, who is authorized to vote on
>behalf of the Organization?
Probably no other participants.
>C. Purpose of Organization:
>
> 1. What are the Organization's primary activities?
Internet access for the under-served -- such as those with financial or
physical limitations.
> 2. What are the Organization's primary activities on the Internet?
Operating Internet access nodes and host services.
> 3. Please furnish a statement of how the Organization's purposes and
>activities conform to the NCDNHC Constituency's goals and membership
>requirements. This should be a narrative statement which specifically
>describes the Organization's purposes and activities and may include
>references to charter or by-law provisions.
Goals of NCDNHC:
> Its purpose is to support noncommercial speech and activity on the
> Internet — and to protect the domain names under which that speech is placed.
SVPAL provides access for those who might not otherwise have it. That's
pretty basic to considerations of speech.
Eligible for Membership
>a) organizations holding at least one domain name, b) and which are
>incorporated as a
>non-commercial entity (in countries that have such a provision in their
>commercial code)
SPVAL holds svpal.org and is a U.S. 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation,
incorporation in the state of California.
Further, membership is
>limited to organizations that are not also members of other DNSO
>constituencies
SVPAL is not a member of any other DNSO constituency
>D. Type of Organization:
>
> Please furnish information regarding your Organization's
>legal status -- is it incorporated (if so, in what jurisdiction) or
>unincorporated? If incorporated, doe it have a not-for-profit or
>non-commercial status?
U.S. 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, incorporation in the state of
California.
>E. Size of Organization:
>
> The NCDNHC will have two subgroups: one for Large and the
>other for Small Organizations. Please indicate the category of membership
>or employee size. If the Organization has both members and employees,
>please answer both questions.
>
> 1. Are you a membership organization? If so, does the
>Organization have under or over 1000 members? What type of individuals or
>entities are members of your Organization?
>
> 2. If you are a non-member organization, do you have under
>or over 200 employees?
Under 200, non-member organization.
>F. Conflict of Interest
>
>Note: Conflict of Interest may or may not be a bar to joining the NCDNHC.
>The hope is that by circulating information about our views, backgrounds,
>and possible conflicts of interests, others in the NCDNHC will have a
>better idea how to interpret and weigh the ideas that we put forward.
>
> 1. For the Organization:
>
> Please furnish a brief statement concerning any possible
> conflict
>between the goals of the Constituency and the Organization's purposes,
>functions or activities.
SVPAL has no apparent conflicts with the Constituency.
> Has the Organization been involved in Internet governance before?
No.
>Does it have any developed positions that you would like others to know
>about? If so, please describe below or provide a URL.
None.
> 2. For the Representative:
>
> As individuals, many of us have been involved in Internet governance
>before. If you have any positions on Internet governance that you would
>like others to read about (taken on behalf of this Organization or others
>or as an individual), please feel free to tell us about them or drop a URL
>below.
Dave Crocker has contributed to many of the public discussion threads. His
views are therefore well-documented.
>G. Is there anything else you would like to add?
-->H. To submit this membership form, you must send the above information to >NCDNHC-Application@LYRIS.ISOC.ORG.
=-=-=-=-= Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg Consulting <www.brandenburg.com> Tel: +1.408.246.8253, Fax: +1.408.273.6464 675 Spruce Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA
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