[ECAdmin] Error in ICANN Announcement of the start of the Rejection Action Petition Periods triggered by the Board's Budget and Operating Plan approvals on Friday,

[Stephen Deerhake]

Greetings JJ.

I note that ICANN has posted an announcement of the start of the Rejection Action Petition Periods in response to the Board's actions at their workshop on Friday.  The announcement I am referencing may be found at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-06-24-en.

Please note that there is an important error in the announcement that needs correcting.  About 5 paragraphs into the announcements, ICANN States:

"Each of these documents will come into effect only after giving the Empowered Community time to consider whether it will raise a petition rejecting the budgets and/or operating plans. Decisional Participants of the Empowered Community have 28 days to bring forth a petition to reject any of these documents."

This is incorrect.  Section 2.2(b) of Annex D states:

(b) During the period beginning on the Rejection Action Board Notification Date and ending at 11:59 p.m. (as calculated by local time at the location of ICANN's principal office) on the date that is the 21st day after the Rejection Action Board Notification Date (as it relates to a particular Rejection Action, the "Rejection Action Petition Period"), subject to the procedures and requirements developed by the applicable Decisional Participant, an individual may submit a petition to a Decisional Participant, seeking to reject the Rejection Action and initiate the Rejection Process (a "Rejection Action Petition")."

Thus the Rejection Action Petition Period is 21 days rather than 28 days, and this correction needs to be made to the announcement and brought to the Community's attention ASAP.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Stephen Deerhake
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