After joining NCSG as member, you are wondering how to get involved and to participate. ICANN can be intimidating with flood of acronyms ,what sounds as complicated policies and complex procedures.
A first step will be to go through NCSG wiki space and discover what was done previously in policy : participation in working groups, public comments, statements. Following the discussion within the NCSG mailing list is important to get up to dated about all informations e.g. monthly NCSG meetings, NCSG sessions in ICANN meetings, public announcements.
When there is a public comment, any member can volunteer to draft a statement and share it with the rest of membership to be endorsed after going through cycle of edits and comments then reaching consensus
You can also contact the NCSG chair and GNSO councillors if you want to ask a question or clarification.
You will find here some documentation to understand better how to participate within NCSG and GNSO:
GNSO provide several pages regarding the policy development process and how working groups functions:
- Ongoing Policies/ current Working Groups
- Procedures
- Working Groups guidelines
- GNSO basics
- Consensus Policy
There is also a monthly newcomers confcall that you can join to understand how to involved in GNSO working Groups , the material is here
