A. Basic Information for Organization

1. What is the name of your Organization?
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)

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?
cdt.org

4. Does the Organization have a website and if so, would you provide the URL?
http://www.cdt.org

1. What is your name and title with the Organization?
Alan Davidson, Staff Counsel

2. How can other representatives reach you? (email, telephone, fax appreciated)
abd@cdt.org, 202-637-9800 phone, 202-637-0968 fax.

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.)
Action of officers based on authority granted them by CDT Board of Directors.

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?
Jerry Berman, Executive Director
Lusan Chua, Policy Analyst

1. What are the Organization's primary activities?
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public policy organization dedicated to promoting the democratic potential of today's open, decentralized global Internet. Our mission is to develop and implement public policies to preserve and enhance free expression, privacy, open access, and other democratic values in the new and increasingly integrated communications medium.

For more information, please refer to http://www.cdt.org/mission/activities.shtml.


2. What are the Organization's primary activities on the Internet?
CDT promotes civil liberties in the United States and globally through public policy advocacy, online grassroots organizing with the Internet user community and public education campaigns, and litigation, as well as through the development of technology standards and online information resources.

For more information, please refer to http://www.cdt.org/.


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.
Please refer to CDT's statement of principles at http://www.cdt.org/mission/principles.shtml.

Please furnish information regarding your Organization's legal status -- is it incorporated (if so, in what jurisdiction) or unincorporated? If incorporated, does it have a not-for-profit or non-commercial status?
The Center for Democracy and Technology is incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit in the District of Columbia.

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?

CDT is not a membership organization.

2. If you are a non-member organization, do you have under or over 200 employees?
Under 200.

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. Has the Organization been involved in Internet governance before? Does it have any developed positions that you would like others to know about? If so, please describe below or provide a URL.

CDT shares the goals of the NCDNHC of supporting non-commercial speech and activity on the Internet and protecting the rights of non-commercial domain name holders. At the same time, CDT also pursues a broader mission to protect the rights of *all* Internet users (regardless of whether they own a domain name), as well as to promote democratic values and civil liberties on the Internet.

Since 1997, CDT has represented the public interest in the domain names
management policy process. For more information on our specific activities,
please refer to http://www.cdt.org/dns/.


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.
Please see above.

CDT commends the hard work of the NCDNHC to date and looks forward to being a part of the constituency.