Dear All,

The GNSO Council is requesting that interested Supporting Organizations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs), and GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies consider appointing members to the Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) Work Track, a group to be formed within an ongoing Policy Development Process (PDP) reviewing all rights protection mechanisms in all gTLDs at the second level of the domain name system.

The composition of the IGO Work Track is as follows:

• The Registries Stakeholder Group: up to 2 Members;
• The Registrars Stakeholder Group: up to 2 Members;
• The Commercial Stakeholder Group: up to 3 Members
• The Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group: up to 3 Members.
• Each AC, other SOs and IGOs: Up to 2 Members per group.

The call for volunteers will close Friday, 20 November 2020 (23:59 UTC). If you are interested in participating in this policy development process, please send a short bio and a statement of interest to joke.braeken@icann.org The ccNSO Council will appoint the members to the WT (if any) as soon as possible, after closure of the call for volunteers. 

Further details about the requirements and the work of the IGO WT can be found attached.

Best regards,

Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor

joke.braeken@icann.org