I had sent this in the email about updated deadlines, but did not receive any feedback about it: == Charter == Originally I think we were hoping to have received all charter comments roughly by Aug 1. Mohamed has made a proposal that we setup an explicit mechanism to solicit community feedback on the charter and announce a clear deadline for comments. I have not seen anyone oppose this proposal. So my suggestion is that I work with the secretariat to get an email alias (not a mailing list) up and running where community members can send comments if they are not able to convey them via an ICG member (which I still think is the preferred approach in general for charter comments). Comments sent to this alias would be directly reflected on a web page that we can setup. Assuming we can get this working by July 31, I suggest that we announce an Aug 8 deadline for charter comments. This is not a lengthy period of time but I think we had a general sense that it’s most important to get the broad outlines of the charter right rather than spending weeks on the details, so hopefully this will be sufficient. ============= Alice has suggested that we could use a forum for this purpose, similar to the ones listed here: <http://forum.icann.org/lists/>. We could publish an announcement page that says that we are accepting public comments on the ICG charter, what the deadline is, a link to the charter, a link to the email alias to be used for comment submission, and a link to the forum page where comments will appear. Should we do this? How long of a comment period should we have? (I would say 7-10 days max, assuming we’re interested in major substantive comments and not lots of detailed nits.) Should we give any guidance about what kind of feedback we’re looking for? Thanks, Alissa