ICANN staff is seeking comments on its Preliminary Issue Report on the Current State of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was created in 1999 with the goal of providing an alternative to costly litigation for resolving international disputes concerning cybersquatting in generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). The Preliminary Issue Report on the Current State of the UDRP can be found at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/prelim-report-current-state-udrp-27may11-en.pdf The Preliminary Issue Report describes how the UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date and makes recommendations on whether ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council should review the UDRP. The Preliminary Issue Report will be updated to reflect community feedback received and a Final Issue Report will then be presented to the GNSO Council for its consideration as to whether the GNSO Council should review the UDRP. A webinar was held on the current state of the UDRP on May 10 2011. You can review the webinar at https://community.icann.org/x/povT José Francisco Arce has posted his comments regarding the preliminary Issue Report, following the LACRALO conference call on July 7 2011. José Arce's comments can be found at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/877052/lacralo-comments/UDRP-comments.pdf The deadline for comments on this preliminary issue report is July 15 2011. ALAC will be drafting a statement on this report at https://community.icann.org/x/zIUKAQ so LACRALO has (at best) a day to submit any comments to ALAC for possible inclusion. Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh LACRALO Secretariat