The ICANN official board meeting just ended. During the morning, Vint Cerf read this statement about the com set of issues:
The board has listened long and hard this week to all constituencies with regard to the .COM agreements
We are deeply grateful to the efforts made by all constituencies to respond to the board’s invitation to organize comments on the proposals and to provide, where possible, concrete suggestions for improving them.
We are also very grateful for the time each constituency spent going over with the board their ideas and reactions.
We ask the staff to accept any further written comments until December 7 and to produce for the community a public report summarizing, analyzing and organizing the feedback provided on the .com and settlement agreements by December 11.
We recommend that staff approach VeriSign with the results of the report on the proposed contract and settlement. We remind all parties that the board has not yet agreed to the terms of the contract and settlement.
We also note the existence of a policy development process on new gTLDs and strongly believe that this PDP should be informed by the results of the comments received on the proposed contract for .com and settlement with VeriSign.
I am looking forward to the board's continued strong and detailed involvement in this process of dialogue, and I want to underscore the importance of the GNSO's policy development process in developing a framework for all of this.