ICANN Supporting Organizations

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ICANN Supporting Organizations are key policy-development bodies within the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that focus on specific areas of the domain name and IP address system, working alongside advisory committees such as the Governmental Advisory Committee.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ICANN body
policy development body
abbreviation ASO
GNSO Council
surface form: GNSO

SOs
ccNSO
collaboratesWith ICANN Supporting Organizations self-linksurface differs
surface form: ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees

ICANN community
focusesOn IP address policy
domain name system policy
governedBy ICANN Bylaws
hasDecisionMaking consensus where possible
hasFunction develop and recommend substantive policies to the ICANN Board
hasLanguage English
hasMeetingType ICANN Public Meetings
hasMember Address Supporting Organization
Country Code Names Supporting Organization
Generic Names Supporting Organization
hasObjective ensure stable and secure operation of the unique identifier systems
reflect global public interest in ICANN policies
hasOutput policy recommendations
hasParticipationMode open to global stakeholders
hasRelationshipWith ICANN Board
surface form: ICANN Board Committees

ICANN staff
hasRole channel stakeholder input into ICANN policies
structure ICANN’s policy-making work
hasScope specific areas of ICANN’s mission
hasStakeholderType business and commercial users
governments and public authorities (via related structures)
non-commercial users
regional internet registries
registries and registrars
technical community
isBasedOn multi-stakeholder model
operatesIn global
partOf Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
regulates global IP address allocation policy (via ASO)
policies for country-code top-level domains (via ccNSO)
policies for generic top-level domains (via GNSO)
reportsTo ICANN Board
surface form: ICANN Board of Directors
subjectOf ICANN Bylaws
surface form: ICANN Bylaws Article X and related provisions
usesProcess bottom-up consensus-based policy development
website https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/so
worksAlongside Governmental Advisory Committee
ICANN Advisory Committees

Referenced by (23)

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Generic Names Supporting Organization abbreviation ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: GNSO
At-Large Advisory Committee advises ICANN Supporting Organizations
GAC Communiqués appliesTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
ICANN Bylaws bindingOn ICANN Supporting Organizations
GAC collaboratesWith ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees
ICANN Advisory Committees collaboratesWith ICANN Supporting Organizations
ICANN Supporting Organizations collaboratesWith ICANN Supporting Organizations self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees
ICANN Board electedBy ICANN Supporting Organizations
Generic Names Supporting Organization hasPart ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: GNSO Council
Generic Names Supporting Organization hasPart ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: GNSO Stakeholder Groups
Generic Names Supporting Organization hasStakeholderGroup ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: Registrars Stakeholder Group
Generic Names Supporting Organization partOf ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: ICANN multistakeholder model
ASO relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization
ASO relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: ICANN Country Code Names Supporting Organization
ASO Address Council relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: ICANN Address Supporting Organization
GAC relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
Governmental Advisory Committee relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
ICANN Advisory Committees relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
Root Server System Advisory Committee relatedTo ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: ICANN Address Supporting Organization
Generic Names Supporting Organization replaced ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: Domain Name Supporting Organization
Generic Names Supporting Organization shortName ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: GNSO
RSSAC worksWith ICANN Supporting Organizations
ccNSO worksWith ICANN Supporting Organizations
this entity surface form: GNSO