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ICANN Opportunities to Participate: Reviews

4 December 2018

LOS ANGELES – 4 December 2018 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has several opportunities for community input and participation to announce below.

Specific Reviews are led by teams of community volunteers to assess the performance of the ICANN organization and make recommendations for improvement.

  • Participate in the face-to-face RDS-WHOIS2 Meeting in Brussels. The Registration Directory Service (RDS-WHOIS2) Review Team is having a face-to-face meeting on 10-12 December 2018. At this meeting, the review team will analyze the public comments received and discuss how to finalize draft recommendations. For details, click here.
  • Contribute to the public comment on the CCT Final Report and Recommendations (deadline extended). The Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team is now seeking input on its Final Report [PDF, 4.9 MB] and recommendations. Please share your public comment by 11 December 2018.

Organizational Reviews are led by independent examiners to assess the extent to which ICANN's Supporting Organizations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs) and the NomCom fulfill their purpose and whether any changes in structure or operations are needed.

  • Participate in the ccNSO Review Survey. The aim of the survey is to collect input from those who have interacted with the ccNSO or have suggestions for ways to improve it. The survey's questions are based on learnings from Meridian Institute's research and interviews conducted to date. Click here to take the survey.

Visit the Review Status Update Table for the latest status on Specific and Organizational Reviews and additional key resources.

About ICANN

ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address into your computer or other device – a name or a number. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation and a community with participants from all over the world.