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