Welcome to the webpages for ICANN's Improving Institutional Confidence consultation. They have been designed to provide the community with all the information it should need to engage in a broad public consultation over possible changes to the organization.

The idea for this consultation was announced by ICANN's Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, on Thursday 28 February 2008 at the U.S. Government's Department of Commerce Midterm Review of the review the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between it and ICANN. During his address, the Chairman asked the President’s Strategy Committee to outline a plan for developing a transition framework.

The Improving Institutional Confidence (IIC) in ICANN consultation has past through two public comment periods. As part of the ongoing consultation process, and following comments received so far in the process, revised documents, with additional explanatory memoranda for ICANN's Cairo meeting in November 2008. Further information on the changes to the documents is available here.

The latest versions of the consultation documents are:

Transition Action Plan [revised]
Improving Institutional Confidence in ICANN [revised]

Comments on revised drafts of the President's Strategy Committee documents can be submitted until Monday 20 October 2008. Further information about the consultation is available here.

The President's Strategy Committee will continue to receive comment on the key areas outlined in the documents both online and at a series of regional consultative consultations until the end of 2008.

First public comment period

A first round of public input on Improving Institutional Confidence was carried out between June and September 2008

Following a review of the public input from the Midterm Review and building on two years' work by the President's Strategy Committee itself, three documents were published to begin community discussion at the ICANN Paris meeting in June 2008. These documents were the first versions of:

A Transition Action Plan, outlining what ICANN hopes to address and how
An Improving Institutional Confidence in ICANN document, which outlines the main points of discussion in greater detail, and
An FAQ to act as supplementary and explanatory guide to the other two documents.

A public comment period began in June 2008 with a two-hour session at the Paris ICANN meeting on Monday 22 June, 2008. Online comments were received until August 2008, and PSC members and ICANN staff shared information and led discussions at a series of public meetings around the world. The Transition Action Plan and 'Improving Institutional Confidence' were revised in line with comments received and the evaluations and discussions of the PSC.

Second public comment period

A second round of public input on Improving Institutional Confidence was carried out between September and October 2008 on a set of revised documents.

You can view all of the comments made at http://comment.icann.org, with nearly all of the submissions available on this page: http://comment.icann.org/.ee7bca7

More information can be found on the comment period's official announcement page: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-19sep08-en.htm

In order to keep the community fully informed about the progress of the consultation, ICANN has set up a special email address and newsletter for more information, plus an RSS feed. The newsletter (sign up below) will provide regular updates on the process and save community members from having to check back on this webpage for new information. The email address iic@icann.org is held open to anyone who has additional questions after they have reviewed the official documentation linked to above.

More information will be added to this page as the consultation process continues.

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For more information on the process that led up the consultation, please visit the JPA webpage at http://www.icann.org/jpa.