In advance of the ICANN meetings in Berlin on May 25-27, a number of proposals, recommendations, and reports have been posted for public comment on the ICANN website in recent weeks. These items, together with the public comments received, will be discussed at a public forum in Berlin on May 26, 1999. The ICANN board may consider taking action on these proposals at its meeting on May 27, 1999. ICANN actively encourages interested individuals and entities to review these documents and to forward comments to the email addresses set forth on the web page for each item. Comments received are automatically archived on the ICANN website for public review. Summary of items posted for public notice and comment (see the individual pages cited for specific instructions and deadlines for submitting comments): - Proposals for recognition as ICANN Supporting Organizations <http://www.icann.org/soapps3.htm> - Proposals for Domain Name Supporting Organization Constituency Groups <http://www.icann.org/dnso/constituency_groups.html> - The World Intellectual Property Organization's "Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process" <http://www.icann.org/wipo/wipo.htm> - The ICANN Membership Advisory Committee has posted its preliminary recommendations for ICANN's membership structure <http://www.icann.org/berlin/membership_rec.htm> - The ICANN Advisory Committee on Independent Review has posted its preliminary recommendations for ICANN's independent review mechanism <http://www.icann.org/irac-interim-report.html> - The proposed 1999-2000 ICANN transition budget <http://www.icann.org/berlin/budget.html> - A proposed interim policy on geographic diversity for the ICANN Board of Directors <http://www.icann.org/geo-diversity.html> In addition, ICANN has posted a question requesting comment on a proposal to recategorize the DNSO constituencies for ccTLD registries and gTLD registries <http://www.icann.org/berlin/drafts2.html#1> For further details on these proposals, please see http://www.icann.org/berlin/drafts2.html For details on the ICANN Berlin meetings, please see <http://www.icann.org/berlin/berlin-details.html>. Molly Shaffer Van Houweling ICANN
