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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">Reminder, if you have a question on SSAC, Alain Aina who is on this list is a member.</font></h2><font size="2">best</font><br>ar<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></h2>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">SSAC Review:
Public Comment Period to the Independent Reviewers’ Draft Report </span></h2>

<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">20
March 2009</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">ICANN appointed JAS
Communications as the consultants for the independent review of SSAC, the
Security and Stability Advisory Committee. The consultants released their <strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/ssac/ssac-review-final-16feb09.pdf">draft
final report</a></span></strong> [PDF, 677K], which was presented and discussed
at the ICANN Mexico City meeting. Slides used during the presentation and
transcript of the discussion <a href="http://mex.icann.org/node/2662">are
available here</a>. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">A <strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200904.html#ssac-review-jas">public
comment period</a> </span></strong>is now open to allow inputs from the
community <strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">to the draft
final report of external reviewers</span></strong>. The SSAC review Working
Group, considering the report of external reviewers and the inputs that will be
received during public comments, will issue its recommendations to the Structural
Improvements Committee and the Board for implementation. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/ssac/ssac-review-final-16feb09.pdf">reviewers’
draft final report</a> is available in English [PDF, 677K]; other linguistic
versions will follow. Its executive Summary is also available in French,
Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/ssac/">from the SSAC review webpage</a>.</span></p>