This constituency consists of present operators of gTLD registries. Inc. ISP and connectivity providers. Non-commercial domain name holders. Trademark, other intellectual property and anti-counterfeiting interests. The participants in the GA should be individuals who have a knowledge of and an interest in issues pertaining to the areas for which the DNSO has primary responsibility, and who are willing to contribute time, effort and expertise to the work of the DNSO, including work item proposal and development, discussion of work items, draft document preparation, and participation in research and drafting committees and working groups.
Directors serve three-year terms, though staggered from one to three years at the outset.
Each SO has adopted or is developing participation structures appropriate for its effective functioning. There are also many concerns regarding institutional design and the efficiency of such a complicated organisation with so many people involved. One of the major tasks of the Board will be to reorganise the Domain Name System. The DNS is the very heart of the Internet, the point at which this vast global network balances. Because of the view that the Internet cannot be regulated, whoever controls the DNS will be subject to immense pressure as the domain name system is the one place where enforceable global Internet policy can be promulgated without any of the messy enforcement and jurisdictional problems that bedevil ordinary law-making exercises on the Net.