[council] Statement by Akram Atallah, COO

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15apr12-en.htm
15 April 2012

Statement by Akram Atallah, COO

As we reported yesterday, ICANN continues to study the technical issue that has 
prompted us to take the TLD application system offline.

Our goals remain to get a full understanding of this issue, fix the problem, 
notify those who have been affected, and reopen the application window as soon 
as possible. We are doing our best to mitigate the impact of this issue on the 
application process.

As reported earlier, some applicants were able to see file names and user names 
that belonged to other applicants. An intensive review has produced no evidence 
that any data beyond the file names and user names could be accessed by other 
users. In addition, it does not appear that this issue caused any corruption or 
loss of data.

We are currently reviewing the data to confirm which applicants were affected. 
As soon as the data is confirmed, we will inform all applicants whether they 
were affected.

We are continuing to look at the technical issue and using outside experts to 
resolve any open issues before we reopen the application window. We are 
extensively testing the system to ensure that all aspects of the issue have 
been fully addressed.

We will reopen the application system as soon as we have full confidence that 
the problem has been resolved. As noted in yesterday's update, we will announce 
no later than 23:59 GMT/UTC on Monday, 16 April, whether we will reopen on 
Tuesday, 17 April.

30 April remains our target date to publish the applied-for new domain names, 
but this is subject to change.

We apologize for any concern this issue is causing. In keeping with ICANN's 
longstanding commitment to transparency and accountability, we will continue to 
provide regular updates at 
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas/interruption-updates> until the 
issue is resolved and the application window has reopened.


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org