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After reading this toolkit, you will: l Have a better understanding of NPOC´s mission l Identify the place of NPOC inside ICANN structure l Understand the GNSO working process l Join a Working Group as a member of as an observer l Make a public comment l Be an active member of NPOC Committees l Participate in NPOC elections l Attend to your first ICANN public meeting l Apply for the different opportunities l Know where to find the latest information about ICANN l Identify most commonly used acronyms acronyms |
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any doubts or want to start sharing your thoughts and work together: npoc@xxxxxxx.org
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Section 3: Information about ICANN meetings and Opportunities
ICANN Public Meeting
NPOC Mentorship Program
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Section 4: Useful resources
NPOC communication channels
ICANN communication channels
ICANN resources
Glossary
Acronyms guide
Section 1: About NPOC
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In order to have their work done, The Generic Names Supporting Organization is divided into two Houses, each of them represents the interest of their members.
l The Contracted Parties House (CHP): integrate by the registration industry. Registries (they operate the databases of a top level domain, like the Public Interest Registry, that operates .ngo and .org) and Registrars (usually who sells domain names, like Go Daddy that then sells .ngo and .org along with others like .com and .legal) – which sign a contract with ICANN.
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The Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH): integrate for those who not sign contracts directly with ICANN, but they have a mission and particular interests inside the community, such noncommercial and commercial users of gTLDs (Generic Top Level Domains, like we mentioned before: .com .org .google).
NPOC, as you can deduce, is part of the Non-Contracted Parties House. As a result, NPOC´s place at GNSO structure looks like this:
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The election of NPOC ExCom takes places once a year in a transparent way The election process, defined in the Charter in provision 8.0, can be organized in five moments:
l 1- Information about the timeline elections: Provided by the Membership Committee, this information must be publish at the email list and at the website at least 60 days before of the upcoming election
l 2- Nominations for positions: eligible candidates must request formal nomination from the Membership Committee by submitting a completed Request for Nomination form within fifteen (15) calendar days of the official Notice of Election post.
l 3- Formal acceptance of candidates: after review the Request for Nomination the Membership Committee must notify candidates of formal acceptance of their nominations.
l 4- Open elections and voting process: actives members are eligible for voting. The vote mechanism will be either via email or online as determined by the Executive Committee. Once the elections if open, actives members have fifteen (15) calendar days to emit their vote.
l 5- Elections results announcement: at the close of the voting period, the ExCom will review all vote and announce the selection candidates. Note that select candidates will be elected for one-year terms, but they can be re-elected taking into account that they can not serve for more than five (5) years in any ten (10) year period on a particular committee.
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In addition to follow the discussion, you may be asked to assist in specific tasks such as researching an issue, managing a survey, or drafting a report. Examples of member responsibilities include, always voluntarily taken:
l Develop and draft working-group documents,
l Contribute ideas and knowledge to working group discussions,
l Act as liaisons between the Working Group and their respective stakeholder groups or constituencies,
l Ensure that stakeholder group or constituency statements are developed in an informed and timely way,
l Actively and constructively participate in the consensus decision making process
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Acronym | Explanation | More Information |
ACP | Administrative Challenge Panels | |
ADR | Alternative Dispute Resolution | |
AFA | Association des Fournisseurs d'Acces à Internet (French Access Providers Association) | |
AFNIC (NIC-France) | Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération | |
AfriNIC | African NIC | |
AFTLD | African ccTLDs | |
AIRA | American Internet Registrants Association | |
APRAM | Association des Practiciens en Droits des Marques et des Modèles | - |
APTLD | Council of the Asia Pacific country code Top Level Domains | |
APNG | Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) | |
APNIC | Asia-Pacific Network Information Center | |
ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers. | |
ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency (See also DARPA) | |
BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain | |
CABASE | Cámara Argentina de Internet, el Comercio Electrónico, los Contenidos y Servicios On Line | |
CAIP | Canadian Association of Internet Providers | |
CDT | Center for Democracy and Technology | |
CENTR | Council of European National Top level domain Registries | |
CIGREF | Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises | |
CNRI | Corporation for National Research Initiatives | |
CORE | Council of Registrars | |
CORE-MoU | Council of Registrars Memorandum of Understanding | |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | |
DNS | Domain Name System | - |
DOC | US Department of Commerce | |
EC | European Commission/European Community | |
ECTA | European Communities Trade Mark Association | |
eCOMLAC | Federación Latinoamericana y del Caribe para Internet y el Comercio Electrónico | |
ENRED | Foro Latinoamericano de Redes | |
ETNO | European Public Telecommunications Network Operators Association | |
ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute | |
EuroInternet | European Internet Business Association | |
EuroISPA | European Internet Services Provider Associations | |
FCC | US Federal Communications Commission | |
GNSO | Generic Names Supporting Organisation | |
gTLD | generic Top Level Domain (not associated with country code) | - |
gTLD-MoU | Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding | |
IAB | Internet Architecture Board | |
IAHC | International Ad Hoc Committee | |
IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | |
ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | |
ICC | International Chamber of Commerce | |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force | |
IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group | |
INTA | International Trademark Association | |
IOPS.ORG | Group of commercial Internet Service Providers | |
iPOC | gTLD-MoU Interim Policy Oversight Committee | |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization | |
ISOC | Internet Society | |
ISP | Internet Service Provider | - |
ISPA-uk | Internet Services Providers Association of the UK | |
ITAA | Information Technology Association of America | |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union | |
LACTLD | Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs | |
MARQUES | Association of European Brand Owners | |
MoU | Memorandum of Understanding | - |
MPAA | Motion Picture Association of America | |
NANC | North American Numbering Council | - |
NANP | North American Numbering Plan | - |
NCHP | Non Contractual House Party (GNSO) | - |
NCUC | Non Commercial Users Constituency | - |
NIC | Network Information Center | - |
NSF | US National Science Foundation | |
NSI | Network Solutions, Inc. | |
NSI Registrar | The initial Registry-Registrars functions of the NSI has been splitted into two names: NSI Registry and NSI Registrar. | |
VeriSign Global Registry Services | Sep 2000: the name "NSI Registry" has been changed to "VeriSign Global Registry Services" | |
NTIA | US National Telecommunications and Information Agency | |
OECD | Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development | |
PAB | gTLD-MoU Policy Advisory Body | |
POC | gTLD-MoU Policy Oversight Committee | |
RFC | Request for Comments | - |
RIPE | Réseaux IP Européens | |
SRS | Shared Registratry System | |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | - |
TLD | Top Level Domain | - |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator | - |
USPTO | United States Patent and Trademark Office | |
WIPO | World Intellectual Property Organization | |
WTO | World Trade Organization | |
WWTLD | World-wide Alliance of Top Level Domains |
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