ICANN participation

What it is | The gTLD Registries Constituency is a constituency within the Generic Name Supporting Organisation (GNSO) and its primary role is to represent the interests of gTLD Registries that are currently under contract with ICANN to provide gTLD Registry Services.

Why it's Important | The in-person meetings held in conjunction with the ICANN meetings provide an opportunity for productive and constructive discussions on issues that involve ICANN consensus policies that relate to interoperability, technical reliability and/or stable operation of the Internet or domain name system.

Who should attend? | Anyone with a vested interest in these issues is encouraged to attend the open session of the gTLD Registries Constituency meeting while in Paris.

What it is | The Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the home for civil society organisations in ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO).

What it is | "ISPs"; or "connectivity providers"; are in the business of operating Name Servers as a service for 3rd parties and operate an Internet backbone network based on TCP/IP.

Why it's important | The meeting is an important opportunity for updates and discussions on issues within the ICANN agenda that are of particular importance to registrants who are intellectual property owners and those seeking to protect copyright and trademark online.

Who should attend? | Anyone with an interest in these issues is invited to attend.

What it is | The Business Constituency is a constituency representing customers of providers of connectivity, domain names, IP addresses, protocols and other services related to electronic commerce in its broad sense.

Why it's important | The meeting will consider the reaction of commercial users to proposals to change (and potentially reduce) the way they have their say in ICANN matters. It will also look inter alia at means of policy change to prevent bad faith activity related to domain tasting and the widespread abuse of the "add grace period".

Who should attend? | Commercial users of the Internet who are interested in meaningful competition in the domain name space and improved enforcement by ICANN of its contract parties (registries and registrars) with respect to acts of bad faith facilitated by lack of enforcement.

What it is | The IPC represents the full range of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property interests relating to the Domain Name System (DNS).

Why it's Important } The meeting is an important opportunity for updates and discussions on issues within the ICANN agenda that are of particular importance to registrants who are intellectual property owners and those seeking to protect copyright and trademark online.

Who Should Attend? | Anyone with an interest in these issues is invited to attend.

What Is It |This is a meeting between members of the At-Large (Internet end-user) community in ICANN and the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) in the GNSO.

Why it's important | This meeting provides an important opportunity for members of non-commercial and end-user interests participating in the work of ICANN to work together. This meeting will particularly focus on the proposed changes to the GNSO and the proposal for inclusion of the At-Large community in a formal sense proposed to the Board of Directors.
Please visit https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?24_june_2008_ncuc for complete details.

Who should attend? | At-Large community members, NCUC members.

What it is | This is a meeting between members of the At-Large (Internet end-user) community in ICANN and the Registrar community.

Why it's important | This meeting provides an important opportunity for members of the ALAC and the Registrar community to discuss issues of common interest, in particular the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) amendment discussions currently underway.

Who should attend? | At-Large community members, Registrar constituency members.