Thanks Olivier, you beat me to it.

You will all recall that at the ALAC-Board meeting in Marrakech, Cherine Chalably had suggested that perhaps instead of forming a new group to inspect the Category 1, SG 1-8 TLDs, that the task could be referred to either or both of the CCT Review Team and the GNSO new gTLD PDP, and he suggested that a phone call be set up the following week to discuss this. That was done and I met with Cherine, Thomas Schneider and James Bladel last week. A summary of that meeting will be distributed shortly, but the letter that Olivier attached was the result.

Although the Board cannot instruct either the RT or the PDP to do anything, the letter does set some expectations. Moreover, I was very please when, on this week's meeting of the GTLD PDP, Jeff, Neuman, one of the co-chairs, presented a brief summary of the issues to be discussed in the PDP< and the issue of such "special" TLDs was covered very well.

Alan

At 22/03/2016 03:49 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
FYI


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [council] FW: [Correspondence from Steve Crocker] PICs and Category 1, Safeguard 1-8 TLDs
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:51:11 +0000
From: James M. Bladel <jbladel@godaddy.com>
To: GNSO Council List <council@gnso.icann.org>


Council Colleagues -

For your review, please see the attached letter from Steve Crocker to the chairs of the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT), and the PDP WG on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures.

Thank you,

J.


From: Wendy Profit <wendy.profit@icann.org >
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 13:47
To: "zuck@ACTonline.org" <zuck@ACTonline.org>, "avri@acm.org" <avri@acm.org>, "scoates@twitter.com" <scoates@twitter.com>, " jeff.neuman@comlaude.com" <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com >
Cc: " Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch" < Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch>, Cherine Chalaby < cherine.chalaby@icann.org>, " alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca" <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca >, James Bladel <jbladel@godaddy.com>, Jamie Hedlund <jamie.hedlund@icann.org >, Steve Crocker <steve.crocker@icann.org >, David Olive <david.olive@icann.org>, " Board-Ops-Team@icann.org" <Board-Ops-Team@icann.org >, "gacsec@icann.org" <gacsec@icann.org>, Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org >
Subject: [Correspondence from Steve Crocker] PICs and Category 1, Safeguard 1-8 TLDs

Dear Jonathan, Avri, Stephen, and Jeff,

Please find the attached letter from Steve Crocker on behalf of the ICANN Board regarding concerns raised by the ALAC and GAC around the effectiveness of the contracted PICs for the GAC Category 1, Safeguard 1-8 TLDs (“Safeguard PICs”).

With warm regards,

Wendy Profit
ICANN Board Operations Specialist
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90094
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Office: 1-310-578-8695
 
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