[announce] Public comment period extended to 25 April 2008 for the BGC Report GNSO Review Working Group on GNSO Improvements

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http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-19mar08.htm

Please note that the Public Comment period
http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#gnso-improvements-report-2008
for the Report of the Board Governance Committee GNSO Review Working
Group on GNSO Improvements has been extended to 25 April 2008 as stated
in the Preliminary Report of the Executive Committee of the ICANN Board
on 19 March 2008,
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-19mar08.htm

"C) Extension of Comment Period for Report of the Board Governance
Committee GNSO Review Working Group on GNSO Improvements – The Committee
acknowledged receipt of a comment from Philip Sheppard on behalf of: The
Commercial and Business Users, the Intellectual Property, and the
Internet Service and Connection Providers constituencies requesting a
30-day extension of the comment period to 25 April 2008.

The Committee engaged in a detailed discussion about the rationale for
the request for extension and agreed unanimously (of all attending) to
the following resolution:

Resolved (__), the Executive Committee hereby extends the public comment
period on the “Comment Period for Report of the Board Governance
Committee GNSO Review Working Group on GNSO Improvements” to 25 April
2008, to permit sufficient time for: i) the parties requesting the
extension to have sufficient time to provide to the ICANN Board their
proposal, including the details of the consultations and nature of the
support that they have gathered; and, ii) to allow time for an
additional call to the community to file submissions relating to all
aspects of the posted report. "

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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org