[bc-gnso] ALERTS From the Secretariat: TAS Temporarily Offline

[Benedetta Rossi <bc-secretariat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear BC Members,

Please find below an ICANN announcement released today:

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-12apr12-en.htm


 TAS Temporarily Offline
 12 April 2012

ICANN constantly monitors the performance of the TLD Application System 
(TAS). Recently, we received a report of unusual behavior with the 
operation of the TAS system. We then identified a technical issue with 
the TAS system software.
ICANN is taking the most conservative approach possible to protect all 
applicants and allow adequate time to resolve the issue. Therefore, TAS 
will be shut down until Tuesday at 23:59 UTC - unless otherwise notified 
before that time.
In order to ensure all applicants have sufficient time to complete their 
applications during the disruption, the application window will remain 
open until 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any 
questions, please contact the gTLD Customer Service Center (CSC) via the 
CSC portal.
Kind Regards,

Benedetta Rossi
BC Secretariat
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