Dear all, Since questions have surfaced in this forum about how public comments were handled in conjunction with the Final Report of the PDP for New gTLDs, please find below the relevant part of the draft minutes of the Council's 6 September meeting on this topic, for your information. Very best regards Olof -------------- Olof Nordling, Mgr Policy Development Coordination ICANN, Brussels ------------------ 2.2 - review public comments http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtldfinalreport-2007/ Liz Williams reported that the Final Report Part A and B, Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains posted for the public comments, included the edits posted by individual Council members among whom were mentioned Avri Doria and Chuck Gomes, incorporated all the small group discussions and the final committee meeting on 6 August 2007. The public comment forum ran from 10 to 30 August 2007 http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10aug07.htm There were 81 comments in all and a synopsis of the comments was posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtldfinalreport-2007/msg00082.html The issues fell into three categories. 1. The first category related to recommendations 6 and 20 with similar language about the way in which morality and public order issues and their lead objection process would be handled. 2. The second category of comments were general ones related to the process and urging ICANN to move towards having a robust and objective application process available as quickly as possible. 3. The third category's comment related to specific elements which included discussions of IDN issues, Recommendation 19 with respect to the use of Accredited ICANN Registrars and protecting the rights of others. The arbitrary cutoff date was midday, CEST on 30 August, 2007 for producing the synopsis of comments for Council members. Comments that were received after that time (but before the posted deadline) would be included in the Board report.