On 11 Nov 2009, at 12:43, Fouad Bajwa wrote: > By > the way, what is the process of setting up new constituencies under > the NCSG charter? Can you point me to the documents? These have yet to be created - they are on the NCSG-EC's lists of work items - then they will need to be reviewed by all - so it will be a bit. But having said that, the first step will probably be the creation of interest groups. While waiting for criteria, things that i imagine would help in the creation of any interest group (that may or may not end up needing/wanting to become a constituency depending on final NCSG charter negotiations) would be things like: - find ncuc/ncsg members who are interested - and if they aren't members yet - get them to join - create a mailing list (perhaps using the ning capabilities or elsewise) - use the mailing lists and whatever to start having substantive discussions and ideas/recommendations for GTLD policy - start responding to GNSO comment periods with coherent statements that come from the interest group and it perspective - join WGs and become active contributing members of the GNSO community from the development (or other interest) perspective There may end up being a few process and bureaucratic steps lke charter writing etc. that may creep in later for the formation of interest-groups/constituencies, but becomeing a defacto presence in the GNSO community seems to me, personally, to be a necessary step in the process. a.