<div dir="ltr">For your information.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">David Olive via soac-chairs</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:soac-chairs@icann.org">soac-chairs@icann.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:03 AM<br>Subject: [soac-chairs] ICANN Launches Improved Public Comment Feature<br><br></div>



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ICANN Launches Improved Public Comment Feature</h1>
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<u></u>31 August 2021<u></u></p>
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<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-launches-improved-public-comment-feature-31-8-2021-en#" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">David
 Olive</span></a>, SVP, Policy Development Support & Managing Director – Washington, D.C.<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>
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Today, I am pleased to announce that the Information Transparency Initiative (ITI) has reached another important milestone with the release of an improved <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">Public
 Comment feature</a>. This enhanced feature is part of the ICANN organization's ongoing commitment to increase the findability and transparency of our information.</p>
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Feature Improvements</h3>
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The ITI team has made several improvements including:</p>
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Submissions available in search results</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
Number of submissions published to individual proceedings available in real time</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
Filtered search by category or date range</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
Improved keyword(s) search for proceedings, submissions, and files</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
Email subscription alerts for individual proceedings and their submissions</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
New guided form submission feature</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
Submission management feature allowing individual users or ICANN groups to track their submissions</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.3125rem 0px 0.3125rem 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.75rem;font-size:inherit;word-wrap:break-word">
New consolidated <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic;line-height:inherit">Other Public Consultations</span> pages to provide the community with a central location for other ICANN community surveys or public consultations that fall outside
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Improved layout and user experience</li></ul>
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Accessing Submissions and Subscriptions</h3>
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To publish a submission or subscribe to Public Comment updates, you will need to create an <a href="https://account.icann.org/" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">ICANN Account</a> 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.</p>
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For more information on publishing a Public Comment submission or how to subscribe to the latest Public Comment content, please read our <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/public-comment-submission-guidelines-26jul21-en.pdf" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">Public
 Comment Step-by-Step Submission Guidelines</a>. You can also watch a <a href="https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/yOsz6gE0lkRkXpB3M_n5HApBAkD6W8q3F2nuELx-onch74-s6I8CkSDVcLhRqGsh.aSkXyJ9Ep1vOFGp1" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">recorded
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About Public Comment</h3>
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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.</p>
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As I have <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/improving-the-public-comment-feature-an-information-transparency-initiative-update-7-2-2020-en" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">written about
 previously</a>, we received a lot of feedback from our stakeholders and the ICANN community about the Public Comment information available on <a href="https://www.icann.org/" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">https://icann.org</a>.
 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.</p>
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Thank You to the Community</h3>
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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 <a href="https://www.icann.org/" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">https://icann.org</a>.</p>
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If you want to learn more about ITI, visit <a href="https://www.icann.org/iti" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/iti</a>. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please
 email the ITI team at: <a href="mailto:informationtransparency@icann.org" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank">informationtransparency@icann.org</a>.</p>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">David A. Olive<br>
Senior Vice President</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:13pt">Policy Development Support</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<br>
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