Source: www.domainnews.com The ICANN Board has asked for additional community input on the appropriate role and representation of individual commercial and non-commercial Internet users in the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). Faced with a number of different recommendations stemming from various independent reviews and GNSO and user-community group efforts, the Board continues to consider this issue and believes that comments from the community, especially stakeholders in the GNSO, ALAC and At-Large groups, and any relevant applicants for new constituencies, would be particularly helpful.Potential commenters are asked to consider addressing the inclusion of registrants and individual users in the GNSO in a manner that compliments the ALAC and its supporting structures and ensures that registrants\' and individual Internet users\' gTLD interests are effectively represented within the GNSO. A summary document (http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/gnso/individual-users-role-25oct08-en.htm) has been prepared by the ICANN Staff to provide background on this issue and to outline a number of potential options being considered by the Board.
