[aso-council] Evolution and Reform Committee Update on RIR Submissions

[Louis Touton <touton@icann.org>]

To the Address Council:

At the recent APNIC and Ripe meetings, significant concerns were 
expressed that the ICANN Evolution and Reform Committee had not given 
any formal response to the RIR joint statements of 8 May and 20 June 
2002, and particularly that the ERC did not discuss them in its 2 
September 2002 Second Implementation Report.  To address these concerns, 
the Evolution and Reform Committee has drafted a substantive response to 
these statements describing the areas in which the ICANN reform plan has 
been revised in response to RIR (and addressing community) comments and 
 explicitly giving its reasons for disagreement with three other RIR 
positions that it does not recommend be adopted.

The response is posted at 
<http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/update-16sep02.htm>.

The Evolution and Reform Committee believes that a continuing dialog 
with the RIRs is important to ensure that there are no communication 
misunderstandings as we proceed with the complex process of reform, and 
that both informal and formal exchanges are valuable in this regard.

Best regards,

Louis Touton
ICANN Secretary


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