[ALSC-Forum] An Inclusive Providers SO?

[DannyYounger]

Letters recently sent to the Names Council and the General Assembly by both 
the Morgan Hill Software Company and by new.net ostensibly argue that ICANN 
remains in violation of the inclusiveness requirements as noted in the DOC 
MoU.
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg02082.html
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg02054.html

The MoU establishes as a goal the development of "appropriate membership 
mechanisms that foster accountability to and representation of the global and 
functional diversity of the Internet and its users, within the structure of 
private-sector DNS management organization."

Both of these organizations maintain that they are being denied participation 
in the DNSO Registry constituency and in the DNSO Business constituency.  
They seek a means of representation that would allow them the prospect of 
participating in the election of an ICANN Board Director.  Short of creating 
a new DNSO constituency, at the moment these businesses have limited options 
for meaningful participation in the ICANN process -- they may only contribute 
by way of comments tendered to the General Assembly (which invariably, like 
their recent comments, continue to be ignored by the bulk of the other 
special interest groups in the Names Council of the DNSO).

If the ALSC chooses to advance a structural reorganization of ICANN that 
would allow for the creation of a Providers Supporting Organization, will 
this new SO deny participation to current and potential providers that have 
not yet been accredited by ICANN (like the many stakeholders that have paid 
their $50,000 gTLD application fee), or will it be allowed to become an 
inclusive SO in the spirit of the DOC MoU?