<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I thought I would copy to this group the email I just sent to the CCWG-Accountability on ICANN public comment period duration. It's just a process point, but an important one.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Shatan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:53 PM<br>Subject: ICANN Public Comment Period Duration<br>To: "<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All:</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I wanted to make sure you were aware that the ICANN public comment periods were changed in January 2015. The minimum public comment period is no longer 21 days with a 21 day reply period. Instead, it is a single (minimum) 40 day comment period. This is apparently a response to certain ATRT2 recommendations. See: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/soaceabout/Announcement+Letter+to+ICANN+Executive+Team" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/soaceabout/Announcement+Letter+to+ICANN+Executive+Team</a></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">There were two community webinars on 22 January announcing "Public Comment Enhancements" (this and the other changes in the above document). See <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-16-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-16-en</a>. The announcement of the webinar mentions the "suspension" of the reply period and the new 40 day minimum period.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Webinar materials (slide deck, transcripts, etc.) are here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=51418375" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=51418375</a></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Aside from the webinar announcement, I don't believe there was a formal announcement to the community of the change in public comment periods. As a result, there still seems to be some lack of knowledge of this change.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I hope this helps.</div></div>
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