Please find below the announcement about the RAA and the opening of a final comment period. As Carlton Samuels has mentioned on some of the mailing lists, At-Large Staff will create a WIKI space for the At-Large community to build its comments and announce that WIKI space when it is ready. Kind regards, Olivier -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Soac-infoalert] Proposed Final 2013 RAA | ICANN Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:21:54 -0700 From: David Olive <david.olive@icann.org> To: soac-infoalert@icann.org <soac-infoalert@icann.org> http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-22apr13-en.htm ICANN Notice: After an extended period of negotiations, ICANN is posting a Proposed Final 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for public comment. On 7 March 2013, ICANN posted its version of the 2013 RAA for public comment, noting some areas of disagreement between ICANN and the Registrar Negotiating Team (NT). In addition, some of the specifications posted for comment were ICANN versions only. Since the March 7th posting, the Registrar NT has engaged in frequent negotiation sessions with ICANN in order to bring to closure to all of the open negotiation topics and to consider the community comments received from the 7 March posting. As a result, at ICANN's public meeting in Beijing, China, ICANN and the Registrar NT announced that they had reached agreement in principle on each of the outstanding items highlighted in the March posting version. The documents posted today reflect ICANN and the Registrar NT's agreements and are the Proposed Final 2013 RAA. To allow for transparency into the proposed final version of the 2013 RAA, and to allow community input on the revisions to the RAA since the March 7th posting, ICANN is opening a full comment forum. ICANN thanks the Registrar Negotiating Team (NT) for its continued engagement in good faith negotiations on the RAA. The RAA posted today reflects hard-fought concessions on many of key issues raised throughout the negotiations. -- David A. Olive Vice President, Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 1101 New York Avenue, NW - Suite 930 Washington, D.C. 20005 Office: 202.570.7126 Mobile: 202.341.3611