Dear all,

In the post enclosed below, I have detailed out our experiences, at the Centre for Internet and Society, with ICANN’s Reconsideration Process.

In trying to understand this rather fascinating process, I attempted to make a statistical analysis of the 144 Reconsideration Requests that ICANN has received/responded to (As of February 29, 2016). These have included grievances ranging from unfulfilled DIDP requests to issues with timely provision of minutes, to issues with the gTLD programme.

The kind of numbers that that this tabular analysis threw up were fairly disturbing:

1. The Reconsideration Committee/Board Governance Committee has denied 118 of the 144 requests – an incredible 81.9%
   
2. Of the 144 requests, 6 were withdrawn by the requester before ICANN responded.
   
3. I was unable to find publicly available responses to 8 out of 144 requests, one dating back up to 2000, and the most recent ones, presumably still being processed, from 2016.
   
4. For only 12 out of 144 – a mere 8.3%,  either the Committee has responded favourably, or the action against which reconsideration was sought has itself been remedied.
   
5. The Committee does not seem to have a single uniform time binding its processing of the requests – the number of days that it takes for there to be a proper response has ranged from 7 days to over a 100 days. 89 of the 144 requests have taken more than 30 days to process, and there has not always been an attempt towards a proper explanation for the same. This is quite contradictory to the wording of the By-Laws, which holds that the Committee should attempt to make a recommendation within 30 days. (See Article IV, Section 2 of the Bylaws)
   

The table may be viewed here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p_sATPBLr264JQC82f8CtPqfA8qdLSN_ySjAHHb0c3c/edit?usp=sharing

I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same.

Any comments and feedback would be welcome!