An advisory panel of the Society for Human Resource Management was reportedly scheduled to meet today to discuss a proposed charter change involving the registration of Dot-jobs domains.

This, after a conference call Friday ending in a consensus that the panel needed more information on the request, which was being pushed through by the exclusive registrar of top-level .jobs domains. Last week, ERE.net reported that the window for comments was to close last Friday. And while the window had been “open” since February, no one seemed to know about it. ERE discovered the proposed charter changes on a new SHRM Web site just 48 hours before the comment period was to end.

We wrote about it Wednesday night, and included it in last week’s Classified Intelligence Report to clients.

Although the comment window expired, SHRM is still taking comments on Policy.jobs, mostly from recruiters who express concern over the lack of adequate notice.

The change that Employ Media, the .jobs registrar, would like to make include allowing the creation of geographic and occupational domains, for example, “houston.retail.jobs.” Its partner, the DirectEmployers Association, has a plan to create thousands of geo-occupational domains and did launch dozens of them in an alpha test. It took them down in February, citing technological issues as the reason. It appears there was some concern whether it could create those site without first changing the charter agreement. Currently, the charter only allows companies to host their own job vancancies on a “companyname.jobs” domain, and only after they meet SHRM guidelines for doing so.

Here’s the link to the the policy forum.

Here’s more from ERE.net.