GNSO Mailing Lists

• GNSO Announce Archives
• GNSO Council Archives
• General Assembly Mailing List Archives
  • General Assembly Mailing List Archives, July 2003 - September 2007
• gTLD-council Archives (for new gTLD PDP)
• Domain Tasting Committee (Domain tasting PDP)
• Inter-Registrar Transfer Committee (IRT PDP)

Task Forces Mailing List Archives

• IDNC Initial Response
• Inter-registrar Domain Transfers Review
• GNSO Ad Hoc Group draft response to ccNSO-GAC Issues Report on IDN Policy
• GNSO Domain Tasting ad hoc group
• GNSO IDN Development Group
• GNSO Working Group of Volunteers to Protect the Rights of Others Mailing List
• GNSO Working Group of Volunteers on IDN Issues Mailing List Archives
• GNSO Working Group of Volunteers on Reserved Names Issues Mailing List
  • Sub Group working on Controversial names
  • Sub Group working on Single Letter names
• Rework Group Response ccNSO/GAC Issues Paper on IDN ccTLDs
• Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) working group
• WHOIS Study Group

Archives of closed lists:

• PDP-Feb06 Task Force - Policies for contractual conditions for existing gTLDs (PCCEG)
• WHOIS Task Force 1, 2 and 3 Combined Archives
• WHOIS Task Force 1 Restricting Access
• WHOIS Task Force 2 Review of data collected and displayed
• WHOIS Task Force 1 and 2
• Registry Services PDP
• Dot Net Committee Mailing List
• Whois Steering Committee Mailing List
• WHOIS Task Force 3 Improving accuracy of collected data
• Sub-group a - "responsibilities" (gnso-res-sga@icann.org)
  the archives are at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-res-sga/
• Sub-group b - "access" (gnso-acc-sgb@icann.org)
  the archives are at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-acc-sgb/
• Sub-group c - "nature of the registrant" (gnso-reg-sgc@icann.org)
  the archives are at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-reg-sgc/
• GNSO Working Group of Volunteers on WHOIS 2007 Mailing List

The old GNSO/DNSO Mailing List archives may be found here.

General Procedure

• No Cross Posting Rules (April 2001)
• Procedures for handling bounced e-mail messages (May 2001)

Under the New ICANN Bylaws:

<http://www.icann.org/general/archive-bylaws/bylaws-15dec02.htm>

9. Upon the adoption of this Transition Article, and until further action by the ICANN Board, the GNSO Council shall assume responsibility for the DNSO General Assembly e-mail announcement and discussion lists.

The GA mailing list will remain open and the voluntary monitors are:

Thomas Roessler
Alexander Svensson
Ross Rader
Abel Wisman

How to subscribe to mailing lists

Announcement list

• Official announcements, only GNSO Secretariat may write to this list.
• To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the Announcement list, please send an email to <majordomo@gnso.icann.org> with the words subscribe announce (or unsubscribe announce) in the body of the message.

General Assembly list

• Anybody interested in the DNSO issues may subscribe to this list, only subscribers may write to this list
• Two main principles since the origin of this server in June 1999, explained in the welcome message sent by majordomo to every new subscriber:
  1. the non cross-posting rule is reinforced
  2. the respect of participants is mandatory
• More explicit rules of order defined in <http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-ga-rules.html>
• More about GA list monitoring in <http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/GA.list-monitoring.html>
• Currently, there is a limit of FIVE postings per day on the GA mailing list
• To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the General Assembly list, please send an email to <majordomo@gnso.icann.org> with the words subscribe ga (or unsubscribe ga) in the body of the message.