<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">David Olive <<a href="mailto:david.olive@icann.org">david.olive@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[Soac-infoalert] Announcing Plans for Public Comment Improvements</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">June 13, 2014 at 7:07:16 AM GMT+2<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; padding: 0px 0px 1rem; border-bottom-width: 1px; 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unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>'s public comment infrastructure. This responsibility includes coordinating, evaluating, developing and implementing targeted improvements to all of <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>'s community input and feedback mechanisms.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The team has spent considerable time reviewing the existing public comment infrastructure, processes, and procedures and gathering data on community activity to determine what changes inspired by the original recommendations of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team have been effective.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In conjunction with those efforts as well as the recent ATRT2 recommendations currently being reviewed by the Board, the Staff has been working over the past several weeks to develop a public comments improvement implementation plan. This effort builds on previous feedback from community leaders that identified a number of potential areas for public comment improvements. The plan has been shared with members of the Board of Directors who have encouraged the Staff to move forward with it.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The team expects to move forward with the implementation of specific short-term process improvements after the <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> Public Meeting in London (<abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s; transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> 50). Those short-term changes will be evaluated for their effectiveness after six months while longer-term improvements are developed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Olive, Vice President, Policy Development Support, outlines those plans in a post on the<abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help;">ICANN</abbr> Blog at – <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/sharing-a-plan-for-public-comment-improvements" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/sharing-a-plan-for-public-comment-improvements</a>.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David A. Olive</font></div><div><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vice President, Policy Development Support<br>General Manager, ICANN Regional Headquarters –Istanbul</font></div><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</font></div><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Direct Line: <a href="tel:+90.212.381.8727" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6/0">+90.212.381.8727</a> </font></div><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile: <a href="tel:+%201.%20202.341.3611" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6/1">+ 1. 202.341.3611</a></font></div></div><div><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Email: <a href="mailto:david.olive@icann.org">david.olive@icann.org</a></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.icann.org/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">www.icann.org</a></font></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">David A. Olive</span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPad</div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>soac-infoalert mailing list<br><a href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org">soac-infoalert@icann.org</a><br>https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/soac-infoalert<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
***********************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************
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