[ALAC] ICANN blog: Sharing a Plan for Public Comment Improvements

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

The 40 day minimum comment period and the standardised schedule for opening
public comments are good improvements. Not so sure about the reply comment
phase.

Dev Anand


"The immediate improvements to be implemented after the London meeting
include:

The reply comment phase of public comment forums will be eliminated. Data
evaluation and community feedback confirm that this experiment inspired by
the ATRT1 recommendations has not been effective.

Staff will establish a standardized schedule for the opening of future
public comment periods at regular intervals. We intend to open public
comment periods on an established monthly schedule - likely two times a
month (e.g., first Monday and third Monday of every month). It is hoped
that this will enable the various ICANN communities and their members to
better organize their work.

Expectations will be established and enforced among ICANN staff to ensure
prompt creation of post-public comment period summary reports. Compliance
with these new processes will be rigorously managed and metrics recorded.

A process for community complaints about summary report content and
mechanisms for corrections will be instituted.

ICANN will return to a minimum comment period format. For the next six
months (after the new processes are implemented) the default minimum
comment period will be 40 days."

Read
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/sharing-a-plan-for-public-comment-improvements

for the full text.