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From: David Olive via soac-chairs <soac-chairs at icann.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:03 AM
Subject: [soac-chairs] ICANN Launches Improved Public Comment Feature

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-launches-improved-public-comment-feature-31-8-2021-en

ICANN Launches Improved Public Comment Feature

31 August 2021
David Olive
<https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-launches-improved-public-comment-feature-31-8-2021-en#>,
SVP,
Policy Development Support & Managing Director – Washington, D.C.

Today, I am pleased to announce that the Information Transparency
Initiative (ITI) has reached another important milestone with the release
of an improved Public Comment feature
<https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment>. This enhanced feature is part of
the ICANN organization's ongoing commitment to increase the findability and
transparency of our information.
Feature Improvements

The ITI team has made several improvements including:

   - Submissions available in search results
   - Number of submissions published to individual proceedings available in
   real time
   - Filtered search by category or date range
   - Improved keyword(s) search for proceedings, submissions, and files
   - Email subscription alerts for individual proceedings and their
   submissions
   - New guided form submission feature
   - Submission management feature allowing individual users or ICANN
   groups to track their submissions
   - New consolidated Other Public Consultations pages to provide the
   community with a central location for other ICANN community surveys or
   public consultations that fall outside the Public Comment process
   - Improved layout and user experience

Accessing Submissions and Subscriptions

To publish a submission or subscribe to Public Comment updates, you will
need to create an ICANN Account <https://account.icann.org/> using a unique
username and password. You will be asked to add basic profile information.
If you already have an ICANN Account, you can log into your account to
publish a submission to a proceeding or sign up for Public Comment alerts.

For more information on publishing a Public Comment submission or how to
subscribe to the latest Public Comment content, please read our Public
Comment Step-by-Step Submission Guidelines
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/public-comment-submission-guidelines-26jul21-en.pdf>.
You can also watch a recorded training webinar
<https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/yOsz6gE0lkRkXpB3M_n5HApBAkD6W8q3F2nuELx-onch74-s6I8CkSDVcLhRqGsh.aSkXyJ9Ep1vOFGp1>
about
the improved Public Comment submission process.
About Public Comment

Public Comment is a critical part of our multistakeholder model. It
provides a mechanism by which stakeholders can have their opinions and
recommendations documented in a formal, public manner. It presents the
ICANN community with the chance to provide inputs for consideration within
ICANN's decision-making processes.

As I have written about previously
<https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/improving-the-public-comment-feature-an-information-transparency-initiative-update-7-2-2020-en>,
we received a lot of feedback from our stakeholders and the ICANN community
about the Public Comment information available on https://icann.org
<https://www.icann.org/>. You told us that it was challenging to find
information and that it was as equally challenging to stay up to date on
the latest Public Comment news. This feedback informed our requirements and
recommendations for improving search, the submission process, and content
subscriptions.
Thank You to the Community

On behalf of the ITI and Policy Development teams, we'd like to extend a
huge thank you to all the ICANN community members who took the time to
participate in and provide feedback on how to improve Public Comment. Your
input was invaluable, and we hope that you can see the steady progress we
are making at improving the findability of content on https://icann.org
<https://www.icann.org/>.

If you want to learn more about ITI, visit https://www.icann.org/iti. As
always, if you have any questions or comments, please email the ITI team
at: informationtransparency at icann.org.

Sent from my iPhone

David A. Olive
Senior Vice President
Policy Development Support
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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