To ensure participants are able to engage in even more effective discussions, ICANN is making sure major documents are published well in advance of its meetings.
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Several major documents have been published by ICANN in the last few days.
There's an analysis of the second Draft Applicant Guidebook comment period and corresponding changes made by ICANN staff to the DAG v2.
There's the final IRT report which is bound to be a major topic of discussion in Sydney.
There's also the third revision to the ccTLD IDN fast-track process (of special interest to me, as I'm on the GNSO's gTLD IDN fast track working group).
Why the deluge you may ask. Check out the minutes of the ICANN board's May 21 meeting, section 8.a, for your answer.
After Mexico, there were complaints from the community that too many documents were published in an haphazard way just before, or during, ICANN meetings, and that it was therefore impossible to take them all in and discuss them properly during those meetings.
So the board asked its Public Participation Committee to look at this issue. The result: a board resolution asking that all documents that need to be considered by the GAC should be published 15 working days before June 21 (the official start of the Sydney meeting, although my colleagues and I on the GNSO Council start our work a day earlier with a full schedule of meetings). Other documents should be available 10 working days before.
This is a good resolution which should help us all by not forcing us to wade through pages and pages of important documents at the last minute when we go to ICANN meetings.[/FONT]
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