The Public Comment Forum, regarding new GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Charters, has been extended from April 5, 2009 to April 15, 2009, according to a press release by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

As part of the comprehensive GNSO Improvements effort, the ICANN Board directed community members to submit Petitions and Charters for four new GNSO Stakeholder Groups (SGs).

Initially, a total of five separate charter petitions from five different groups were submitted immediately prior to and during the ICANN Mexico City meeting for the Registry SG, the Registrar SG, the Commercial SG and the Non-Commercial SG (NCSG) (two separate filings were made for the NCSG).

Because extensive community discussions took place in Mexico City regarding the various SG charters and because a number of SG proponents indicated that they would like to modify or update their proposals, the ICANN Staff left open the possibility that the original 30-day comment forum period would be extended by as many as 10 days if any of the initial charter submissions were revised or modified.

On March 16, 2009, the Non Commercial Users Constituency submitted a revised charter document. See NCSG Charter Proposal (version 6) submitted by the NCUC.

That submission has triggered an extension of the original comment forum period by 10 days until April  15, 2009.

During the remaining forum period through, April 15, 2009, all members of the ICANN community are now invited to review the original and revised submissions and share comments and observations with the Board and the wider community.
 

SOURCE:AGIPNEWS