All good questions Bruce. One more that comes to my mind is whether it would be a good idea to align the bylaws and voting procedures of the constituencies to make the policy process more predictable in terms of timing. Best, tom Am 03.08.2005 schrieb Bruce Tonkin:

Hello All,

Some of the questions I have in terms of the GNSO constituency structure are:

- should some constituencies merge to form larger constituencies with more participation?

- should there be additional constituencies to cover viewpoints that are not currently being addressed (e.g application developers - such as browsers, email that are affected by GNSO decisions)?

- how should companies that have a variety of interests engage with the GNSO structure? (e.g Melbourne IT is a registrar, provides other Internet services, is a business user of the Internet, is concerned about protection of its intellectual property, and provides services to assist corporates to protect their online brands - thus it could conceivably join 3 of the constituencies. There are staff (and divisions of staff) at Melbourne IT that would have different interests, and thus may want to become involved in constituencies that match their interest.)

Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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