The GNSO is comprised of Stakeholder Groups whose leadership teams are shown in the tabs below. ICANN's Board encouraged the GNSO to structure the Council on the basis of four broad stakeholder groups in order to represent the wide variety of groups and individuals that compose the ICANN community. Stakeholder Groups function as caucuses, and are intended to facilitate the creation of new constituencies as well as growth and expansion of GNSO participants.
- The Generic Names Supporting Organization fashions (and over time, recommends changes to) policies for generic Top-Level Domains (e.g., .com, .org, .biz). The GNSO strives to keep gTLDs operating in a fair, orderly fashion across one global Internet, while promoting innovation and competition. Sample GNSO issues: When you register a domain name, what services must the registrar provide? If you forget to renew your domain name, and it expires, can you get it back? What happens if someone registers a domain name that is confusingly similar to yours? Resources posted here will help you learn more about the GNSO and its policy development process.
gnso(dot)icann(dot)org/en/about/gnso-council.htm
Sage because I don't know what I'm talking about yet.
Lincoln Wood
Oh look, cuckchan arrived.
Josiah Adams
Here's a copy-paste thing I made up, change some words and add in your own flavor obviously
Hello [Representive name]
As one of your constituents, and a [profession, or something along those lines], I urge you to stand against the current plan of President Obama to hand over control of the internet (specifically handing over control of the Internet domain and IP address database) to a foreign multi-stake entity on Oct 1.
[Representative name], I implore you to stand against this, as giving up this control only paves the way for a desecration of the First Amendment. The internet, one of America's (and mankind's) greatest inventions, requires continued freedom to function as well as it has in regards to finding the truth. With certain regimes holding power or at the very least, sway over the database, untold censorship can emerge, and as a result, ways to fight back against further corruption would be easily quashed.
Imagine if you discovered an item of interest, perhaps incriminating evidence of some individual or group, and within a day, the whole site you discover it on goes black. The domain leads to nowhere when you attempt to access the website and the IP address is lost. What will you do? The problem is exacerbated ever further if corporations are involved.
One can easily see the potential for abuse, perhaps far worse than I described as the knowledge of the domain and IP address database possessed by this non-Americsn group who seek control is likely greater than my own.
Therefore, as a [Republican and a conservative(could be changed if you feel it helps)]who believes in the constitution, and especially the first amendment, I urge you to take action and make a vocal, pronounced stand against this veritable injustice, and clear path to abuse and a soiling of the right that our forefathers fought so dearly to protect by supporting the Protecting Internet Freedoms Act.
