Re: [council] .net agreement comment period

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kurt, if that is the (undocumented) current 
practice, it has certainly not been followed with 
any regularity (PEDNR is the one that I *know* 
was handled with more flexibility). Given the 
frailty of our comment process, this is not an 
area where inconsistency and unwritten rules should apply.
Alan

At 10/05/2011 10:40 PM, Kurt Pritz wrote:
> Hi Adrian:
>
> Our current practice is to close at midnight UTC 
> unless otherwise specified. We were following 
> through to close as specified in the comment 
> forum. The email to our web administrator to close was sent well in advance.
> Understanding your point, ICANN will reopen the 
> forum to accept comments through the entire day 
> regardless of timezone. We'll also make it 
> clearer regarding time of closure in future fora.
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kurt
>
> From: Adrian Kinderis [mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 06:57 PM
> To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GNSO <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [council] .net agreement comment period
>
> I note with great interest the comment period 
> for the .net agreement has been cut off on the ICANN website at 6.50pm (PDT).
> I believe the timeline stated that it will end 
> â??10 May 2011â??. The day is not over. Who, 
> from staff, has the itchy finger over there? Is 
> this so that the conspiracy theorists have some content?
> Folks may still want to submit comments at this 
> late hour and I believe they would still have 
> the right to do so within the allocated comment period.
> I also note that there are a number of comment 
> periods that have supposedly passed yet remain opened on the ICANN website.
> Can staff respond to this please and confirm 
> that members of the public have until midnight 
> PDT to send their responses and open the website back up for comments?
> Thanks.
>
> Adrian Kinderis