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The Noncommercial Users Constituency is composed of different groups such as the GNSO Operations Team, Interest-Group-Formation: Librarians, Scientific, Technical, and Academic Experts, Post-Expiration Domain Name Drafting Team, Fundraising Committee, Operations Steering Committee, Consumer Rights, and many other groups.<ref>[http://ncdnhc.org/groups?page=2 Groups]</ref>

The Noncommercial Users Constituency is composed of different groups such as the GNSO Operations Team, Interest-Group-Formation: Librarians, Scientific, Technical, and Academic Experts, Post-Expiration Domain Name Drafting Team, Fundraising Committee, Operations Steering Committee, Consumer Rights, and many other groups.<ref>[http://ncdnhc.org/groups?page=2 Groups]</ref>

==NCUC Officers==

==NCUC Executive Committee==

The officers of the Noncommercial Users Constituency:

The officers of the Noncommercial Users Constituency:

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==Comments on ICANN Policy Issues==

==Comments on ICANN Policy Issues==

The NCUC, like any other Constituency, is active in sharing its comments and recommendations to different ICANN Policy Issues. On June 12th, 2007, NCUC submitted its statement regarding the GNSO New TLD Committee’s Draft Final Report On The Introduction of New [[gTLD|Generic Top Level Domains]] and opined that the draft report consists of flaws and it is a "recipe for irregularity, discretion and uncertainty in the new domain name space". The Constituency argued that the introduction of morally acceptable and not contrary to public order as a  string criteria is troubling and expressed its strong opposition to this proposal and pointed that it is beyond [[ICANN]]'s technical mandate. NCUC also rejects the expansion of the role of [[ICANN Staff]] and outside expert panels in evaluating the criteria that are non technical, financial or operational. The Constituency recommended that the role of ICANN Staff should be limited only to identifying if a domain name applicant met the operational, technical, and financial requirements objectively and should not evaluate on the basis of morality or other public policy objectives. Furthermore, NCUC also opposed the "substantial opposition" criteria for rejecting a domain name because it is a bad policy for the public and for ICANN. The Constituency argued that the substantial opposition criteria is incompatible with the internationally recognized Freedom of Expression guarantees.<ref>[http://ncuc.syr.edu/policydocuments/PDP-Dec05-NCUC-CONST-STMT-JUNE2007.pdf Comments from ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency]</ref>

The NCUC, like any other Constituency, is active in sharing its comments and recommendations to different ICANN Policy Issues. On June 12th, 2007, NCUC submitted its statement regarding the GNSO New TLD Committee’s Draft Final Report On The Introduction of New [[gTLD|Generic Top Level Domains]] and opined that the draft report consists of flaws and it is a "recipe for irregularity, discretion and uncertainty in the new domain name space". The Constituency argued that the introduction of morally acceptable and not contrary to public order as a  string criteria is troubling and expressed its strong opposition to this proposal and pointed that it is beyond [[ICANN]]'s technical mandate. NCUC also rejects the expansion of the role of [[ICANN Staff]] and outside expert panels in evaluating the criteria that are non technical, financial or operational. The Constituency recommended that the role of ICANN Staff should be limited only to identifying if a domain name applicant met the operational, technical, and financial requirements objectively and should not evaluate on the basis of morality or other public policy objectives. Furthermore, NCUC also opposed the "substantial opposition" criteria for rejecting a domain name because it is a bad policy for the public and for ICANN. The Constituency argued that the substantial opposition criteria is incompatible with the internationally recognized Freedom of Expression guarantees.<ref>[http://ncuc.syr.edu/policydocuments/PDP-Dec05-NCUC-CONST-STMT-JUNE2007.pdf Comments from ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency]</ref>