Organizing of Individual User Community
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) effectively launched organizing of the individual user community (At-Large) for participants and representation in ICANN. ICANN’s Board of Directors approved a framework for the formation of local, regional, and global groups.
In doing so, the Board took a critical step towards promoting structured involvement and informed participation of the global individual Internet user community in ICANN with respect to several issues such as: introduction of new domain names, privacy in the WHOIS database, and the introduction of internationalized domain names and others.
“At-Large Structures” will be groups throughout the world (either existing organizations or newly formed for this purpose) focusing on participation by individual Internet users.