New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP November 2020 Newsletter

CURRENT STATUS

The Working Group is continuing to review input received through the public comment period on the Working Group’s draft Final Report. The Working Group is using a series of review tool spreadsheets to support this analysis.  Working Group meetings in November focused on the following topics: 2 November: Topic 20: Application Change Requests; Topic 24: String Similarity Evaluations; Topic 35: Auctions 5 November: Topic 15: Application Fees; Topic 36: Base Registry Agreement 9 November: Topic 31: Objections; Topic 30: GAC Early Warning/GAC Consensus Advice; Topic 28: Role of Application Comment 12 November: Topic 9: RVC/PICs; Topic 34: Community Applications 17 November: Topic 41: Contractual Compliance; Topic 37: Registrar Non-Discrimination / Registry/Registrar Standardization; Topic 38: Registrar Support for New TLDs; Topic 25: IDNs 19 November: Topic 6: RSP Pre-Evaluation; Topic 27: Applicant Reviews; Topic 39: Registry System Testing 23 November: Discussion with Board Liaisons on Board Bylaws comments regarding (i) PICs / RVCs, (ii) Applicant changes as a result of disputes, objections, etc. (iii) Community Priority Evaluation, and (iv) Private resolution of contention sets

NEXT STEPS

The Working Group will finish its review and analysis of the input received through public comment with the objective of finalizing its recommendations and Final Report and submitting the Final Report to the GNSO Council by the end of 2020. For additional details, please see the Working Group’s work plan.

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?

In June 2014, the GNSO Council established a Discussion Group that was intended to evaluate the experiences of the 2012 round gTLD Program and to identify possible areas for future GNSO policy development. The Discussion Group’s deliverables served as the basis for the GNSO Council request for a Preliminary Issue Report in June of 2015. Following the publication of the Final Issue Report, the GNSO Council adopted the charter for the PDP Working Group, which began its work in February 2016.  The Working Group first concentrated on a set of overarching issues. It then conducted initial deliberations on additional topics in its charter using five separate Work Tracks: Work Track 1 - Overall Process/Support/Outreach, Work Track 2 - Legal/Regulatory, Work Track 3: String Contention/Objections & Disputes, Work Track 4: Internationalized Domain Names/Technical & Operations, Work Track 5: Geographic Names at the Top Level. Following publication of the Working Group’s Initial Report, Supplemental Initial Report, and the