The survey is intended to contribute to one of the reviews mandated by ICANN ‘s Affirmation of Commitments (“Affirmation”). The Affirmation outlines ICANN ‘s responsibilities to the global community of Internet users, who are all served by the DNS . The Affirmation focuses on three primary areas of accountability: (a) ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users; (b) preserving security, stability and resiliency of the DNS ; and (c) promoting competition, consumer trust and consumer choice. Each of the focus areas includes regular reviews by the community to gauge ICANN ‘s performance. The survey will serve as one source of data to inform the analysis of how the New gTLD Program has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice.

The consumer survey will capture some of the metrics proposed by ICANN ‘s community members  from the Generic Names Supporting Organization ( GNSO ) and the At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC ) to evaluate the impact of the New gTLD Program on competition, consumer trust and consumer choice. A review team, to be formed, will include the survey results as it examines other measures, such as the geographic spread of new gTLD registrations, the number of internationalized domain names ( IDNs or domains in scripts that include characters outside the letters a-z, numbers 0-9 and a hyphen) available, and the relative incidence of compliance complaints, among many others.

As the DNS is relevant to all Internet users worldwide, the survey must be globally representative of all geographic regions, and thus the selected provider(s) must be able to conduct its work across multiple countries and languages. The proposed methodology must also be replicable one year after the initial survey is conducted to measure changes in attitudes as new gTLDs become more prominent in the domain name space.

For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please click here [ZIP, 1.08 MB].

Proposals should be submitted to
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by 23:59 UTC ON 6 August 2014.

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-07-16-en

Following community dialogue, the process for developing a proposal for this transition was posted on 6 June 2014. As a part of this process, a Coordination Group will be responsible for preparing a transitional proposal respective of the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions.

See here for a full list of the Coordination Group Representatives.

The first face-to-face meeting of the Coordination Group will take place in London from 08:00-17:00 UTC on 17-18 July at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel.

UPDATE: The agenda for the 2-day Coordination Group Meeting can be found here [PDF, 37 KB].

The global multistakeholder community will be able to follow the Coordination Group’s first meeting through the Virtual Meeting Room and through audio translations into these languages:

• English
• French
• Spanish
• Chinese
• Russian
• Arabic
• Portuguese

In addition, the community is encouraged to join the conversation through use of the online discussion forum or ICANN ‘s dedicated IANA Transition mailing list to discuss the transition process.

For more information about the Coordination Group and the IANA Function’s Stewardship Transition, please visit the NTIA IANA Functions’ Stewardship Transition microsite.

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-16-en