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ICANN has published a Fourth Status Report from the ERC: The Evolution and Reform Committee is carefully reviewing the details of the RIR proposal, as well as the reactions to the proposal from all segments of the Internet community. The Committee invites detailed and thoughtful discussion of the proposal.

The ERC has published a Supplemental Implementation Report. That report specifically addresses Vittorio Bertola’s comment on the ALAC’s steady-state future, and promises a revised bylaw draft concerning that point. Also, one of the core values is replaced, and elaborates on the planned terms of ICANN board members.

The RIRs have published their version of a blueprint for reform. For a quick overview, I recommend you take a look at Alexander Svensson’s latest charts.

Louis Touton has sent a notice on ccTLD root zone updates to the Names Council, and promises further updates.

… the ITU.

As Elisabeth Porteneuve has noted, the ERC’s final report contains a somewhat hidden announcement for an annual meeting in December 2002, in addition to the Shanghai meetings already scheduled.

Over the past months, a number of DNSO constituencies were living under the regular threat of losing their voting rights on the Names Council as a sanction for non-payment of their DNSO dues. Today, Names Council chairman Bruce Tonkin forwarded an analysis by Louis Touton which leads to the conclusion that the By-Laws do not allow the Names Council to suspend the ability of representatives to vote.

Catching up on the last days’ news: ICANN has presented its final ideas on evolution and reform. Vittorio Bertola has already submitted some comments on the final report’s ideas on the ALAC, and Alexander Svensson has posted some of his extremely valuable charts which should make it considerably easier to understand what’s in the proposal.

As I wrote on the GA list, the comments submitted by IMS/ISC on the final .ORG evaluation report are well worth reading; see also this ICANNwatch story. (all the comments received by ICANN) There is another ICANNwatch story which you should really have read by now: Milton Mueller’s anaylsis of the .org results, with some important and far more general observations. (Much of the posting deals with NeuStar; you may also want to read this message from NeuStar to the NCDNHC’s discuss list, criticizing the NCDNHC’s evaluation.)

Anyway, we’ll soon know what is going to happen to .org: As Bret Fausett noted, the board’s decision is scheduled for October 14th.

Silicon.com reports that .uk registry Nominet may be facing a lawsuit over proposed changes to its WHOIS service. Links of interest: Nominet’s own description of the planned changes; a site campaigning against the proposal (with more links). (Via Internet Democracy Project.)

CENTR has released comments on IANA zone-file access. This is a response to the recently-published IANA FAQ on the same topic.