Dear all, The cross-community Geographic Regions Review Working Group has produced its Final Report in which it proposes a series of recommendations regarding the ongoing application of the organization's geographic regions framework. The ICANN Board is interested in further community reaction to those recommendations and has instructed the Staff to open and manage a public comment period of at least 120 days to give the community an opportunity to thoroughly review the proposals and provide any additional comments on the working group recommendations. Closure of comment period: 24 April 2016, 23.59 UTC. The final report can be found here: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/geo-regions-wg-31oct15-en.pdf The announcement can be found here: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/geo-regions-2015-12-23-en Background A the request of the ccNSO at the time, the ICANN Board chartered a cross-community working group to (1) identify the different purposes for which ICANN's Geographic Regions are used; (2) determine whether the uses of ICANN's Geographic Regions (as currently defined, or at all) continue to meet the requirements of the relevant stakeholders; and (3) submit proposals for community and Board consideration relating to the current and future uses and definition of the ICANN Geographic Regions. Kind regards, Bart