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A vital part of ICANN's processes is the opportunity for there to be public comment on each substantial piece of work before it is put forward for final approval. This is an archive of one month's public comment periods, arranged according to the month in which the comment period was closed.
Each box below provides a brief explanation of what the comment period hoped to achieve, as well as: links to relevant reports and/or webpages; a link to the official announcement of the comment period; a link to where all existing comments can be found; and an email link for anyone that wished to send in a comment. A "summary/analysis" objectively reviews the comments.
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Explanation: A Whois taskforce convened in June 2005 completed its work and sent a final report to the GNSO Council in March 2007. In that report, a majority of members endorsed a proposal called the "Operational Point of Contact" (OPOC). Under OPOC, every registrant would identify a new operational point of contact and the registrant's postal address, city, and postal code would no longer be displayed. The operational point of contact's name and contact information would be displayed instead, and it would replace the administrative and technical contacts. Expanding on that work, the GNSO Council in March created a Whois working group to examine three issues and make recommendations on them: 1. To examine
the roles, responsibilities and requirements of the OPOC, and what
happens if they are not fulf2 illed; The working group's report [pdf] was published on 20 August 2007. On 6 September 2007, the GNSO Council approved a resolution for further public comment on the report with the intention to lead to a vote on the issue on 31 October 2007 during the Los Angeles ICANN meeting. The resolution called for ICANN staff to prepare a " final report" covering the Whois reports referenced above and called Staff overview of Recent GNSO Whois Activities [pdf] by 11 October, 2007. Public comments are invited on both of the GNSO Council's Whois reports and recommendations referenced above and summarized in the Final Staff Overview of Recent GNSO WHOIS Activity of 11 October. Please comment on the Whois Task Force and Working Group Reports, the11 October Final Staff overview of Recent GNSO Whois Activities [pdf] and the 11 October Staff Implementation Notes on the Whois Working Group Report [pdf] . Comments will be taken until 00:00 UTC (17:00 PDT) on 30 October 2007.
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Explanation: ICANN has recently completed the first phase of consultation for the June 2008 - July 2011 Strategic Plan. The comments from this first phase of consultation have been synthesized into an issues paper [pdf]. Members of the community are asked to read the issues paper and comment on the following two questions: 1. Are there any significant issues that have been overlooked? The questions for this consultation can be found in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. Comments may be submitted through 12 October 2007. The feedback that is received to these questions will be used to formulate key priorities and the draft strategic plan. Details of the planning process can be found at http://www.icann.org/planning/.
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Explanation: The principle of ongoing review of ICANN's structures is embedded in the organisation's bylaws, and that includes review of the Board itself. That process is due to start soon but before the review itself happens, the terms of reference for that review are drawn up and put out for public comment. The terms of reference for the Board itself have now been drawn up and this comment period is an opportunity for the ICANN community to provide feedback on them. You can find the Draft Terms of Reference here [pdf]. |
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| Proposed .post business model | ||||||
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Explanation: The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has written to ICANN outlining its intended business model for the new .post generic top-level domain. Certain aspects of these terms relate to the UPU’s status as an intergovernmental organization (IGO). The letter invites public examination and comment at an early stage of the negotiation. Negotiations will continue and comments made regarding this material will be taken into account as they are received. The UPU proposes, among other things, that it be allowed supply second-level domains to its member countries (Designated Operators, or DOs) and that they be allowed to supply domains under them for no charge and without going through ICANN-accredited registrars.
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