[council] Announcing Plans for Public Comment Improvements

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Announcing Plans for Public Comment Improvements
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-12-en

ICANN's Policy Development Support Staff recently assumed day-to-day oversight 
of ICANN's public comment infrastructure. This responsibility includes 
coordinating, evaluating, developing and implementing targeted improvements to 
all of ICANN's community input and feedback mechanisms.

The team has spent considerable time reviewing the existing public comment 
infrastructure, processes, and procedures and gathering data on community 
activity to determine what changes inspired by the original recommendations of 
the Accountability and Transparency Review Team have been effective.

In conjunction with those efforts as well as the recent ATRT2 recommendations 
currently being reviewed by the Board, the Staff has been working over the past 
several weeks to develop a public comments improvement implementation plan. 
This effort builds on previous feedback from community leaders that identified 
a number of potential areas for public comment improvements. The plan has been 
shared with members of the Board of Directors who have encouraged the Staff to 
move forward with it.

The team expects to move forward with the implementation of specific short-term 
process improvements after the ICANN Public Meeting in London (ICANN 50). Those 
short-term changes will be evaluated for their effectiveness after six months 
while longer-term improvements are developed.
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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