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

[Holly Raiche]

Just a suggestion but would it be worth it to have 10-15 minutes during one of the ALAC sessions to discuss?  Have someone from ICANN staff brief us?

Holly
On 13 Jun 2014, at 8:15 pm, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

> Dear Dev,
> 
> if they're following the ATRT2 recommendations, they're testing out
> different methods so we'll see how they work/don't work for the ALAC. It
> is for 6 months after all?
> Kind regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> On 13/06/2014 01:48, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>> 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.
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> -- 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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