[council] ICANN Opens Public Comment Period on the Tralliance Proposed New Registry Service

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ICANN Opens Public Comment Period on the Tralliance Proposed New 
Registry Service
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-1-18sep06.htm

On 13 September 2006, ICANN posted for public information a proposal
http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/tralliance_request.pdf
submitted through the Registry Request Service by Tralliance Corporation 
for a new service known as "search.travel". ICANN has made a preliminary 
determination that the Tralliance proposal requires further 
consideration by the Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel 
(RSTEP) because the proposal could raise significant Security and 
Stability issues. Accordingly, today ICANN has referred the proposal to 
the RSTEP.

Under the terms of the Registry Services Evaluation Policy,
http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/rsep.html
the RSTEP shall have 45 calendar days from the referral, until 2 
November 2006, to prepare a written report regarding the proposed 
Registry Service's effect on Security or Stability, which report (along 
with a summary of any public comments) shall be forwarded to the ICANN 
Board. The report shall set forward the opinions of the Registry 
Services Technical Evaluation Panel, including, but not limited to, a 
detailed statement of the analysis, reasons, and information upon which 
the panel has relied in reaching their conclusions, along with the 
response to any specific questions that were included in the referral 
from ICANN staff.

A public comment period will remain open until 5:00 PM PDT/California, 
18 October 2006. Public comments will be available for consideration by 
the RSTEP and the ICANN Board.

Comments can be posted to: tralliance-comments at icann.org.
Comments can be viewed at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/tralliance-comments.
-- 
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org