[council] GNSO Council Restructuring - a wrinkle in the two houses approach
For
discussion
Some recent activity
with new organisations seeking involvement inside the GNSO has opened up the
thought that maybe the delineation of the two house we have currently proposed
is too narrow. It was based on old thinking.
The two houses
are:
a) users
b) ICANN contracted
parties
On reflection this
division into two does NOT reflect the totality of potential
stakeholders.
A division
between:
a)
users
b) domain name
suppliers
may be a better
fit.
The parties with no
home in the proposed structure are:
a) applicant
registries in the new TLD process (not yet a contract with
ICANN)
b) resellers of
domain names (with no contract with ICANN)
c) sellers of
registry services based on sub-domains (with no contract with
ICANN)
These three
categories have little communality with true user interests (a safe place
to communicate or do business)
and much more with
the contracted parties ( eg want to be a registry / shared customer
base / focus on registry pricing).
Should we not extend
the scope of the contracted parties house to fit these sort of organisations
inside if the desire is there ?
Philip