The ICANN Board made recommendations on how to improve the operations and structure of the GNSO. One of its recommendations is the development of new GNSO constituencies in accordance with Article X, Section 5(4) of the ICANN Bylaws. Since there is no specific guidelines stipulated in the ICANN Bylaws on how the community could file a petition for a new constituency, the ICANN Staff helped the ICANN community in formulating procedures in accordance with principles of the Bylaws as directed by the ICANN Board. On October 2008, two procedures were formulated and adopted by the internet community such as the submission of Notice of Intent (NOIF) to Form a New GNSO Constituency and a formal Petition/Charter. NPOC submitted submitted its NOIF on June 15, 2010 followed by its Petition?Charter on November 2, 2010 which was revised on December 7, 2010.<ref>[http://forum.icann.org/lists/npoc-petition-charter/msg00017.html Staff Summary and Analysis of Comments - NPOC]</ref> | The ICANN Board made recommendations on how to improve the operations and structure of the GNSO. One of its recommendations is the development of new GNSO constituencies in accordance with Article X, Section 5(4) of the ICANN Bylaws. Since there is no specific guidelines stipulated in the ICANN Bylaws on how the community could file a petition for a new constituency, the ICANN Staff helped the ICANN community in formulating procedures in accordance with principles of the Bylaws as directed by the ICANN Board. On October 2008, two procedures were formulated and adopted by the internet community such as the submission of Notice of Intent (NOIF) to Form a New GNSO Constituency and a formal Petition/Charter. NPOC submitted submitted its NOIF on June 15, 2010 followed by its Petition?Charter on November 2, 2010 which was revised on December 7, 2010.<ref>[http://forum.icann.org/lists/npoc-petition-charter/msg00017.html Staff Summary and Analysis of Comments - NPOC]</ref> |