+1 At 14:52 24/03/2008, Ross Rader wrote:
Broadly speaking, I see three distinct groups - contracted parties (registrants, registrars and registries), domain name users (commercial, non-commercial and individual) and infrastructure service providers (software developers, telecoms, etc.) Within each of the subsets, further segmentation of the stakeholder groups is probably necessary - i.e. sponsored TLD registries, generic TLD registries, commercial registrants, individual registrants and so on...
I don't think the GNSO can ever be all that functional unless there is a material way for each of these groups to meaningfully participate in the work of the GNSO.
I've always found it to be useful to think of any changes to the structure of the GNSO in terms of what the long-term picture should look like. It would be great if the community could agree on a roadmap that would help us guide our short-term efforts.
-ross