New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP May 2020 Newsletter

CURRENT STATUS

In May, the Working Group focused on reviewing draft final recommendations on a topic-by-topic basis. The meetings in May focused on recommendations for the following topics: 4 May: Auctions: Mechanisms of Last Resort, Private Resolution of Contention Sets 7 May: GAC Advice/Early Warnings, Auctions: Mechanisms of Last Resort 11 May: Predictability (see predictability working document) 14 May: Closed Generics 18 May: Predictability (see predictability working document) 21 May: Predictability (see predictability working document) 26 May: Predictability (see predictability working document) In addition, during the 26 May and 28 May meetings, the Working Group reviewed feedback from Working Group members on revised sections of the report included in “packages” 1-3. See the Working Group wiki for additional details on the packages of revised sections and feedback received.

NEXT STEPS

The Working Group will continue to refine draft final recommendations taking into consideration the Working Group’s review of its summary documents and any additional deliberations that have taken place. For the schedule of topics that will be covered in June, please see the Working Group’s wiki. The Working Group expects to complete this process in the coming weeks and then will open a public comment period on the draft Final Report. The Working Group will hold one remote session during the ICANN68 Virtual Meeting, which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 23 June from 00:30-02:00 UTC. Additional details about the agenda for this session will soon be available here.

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 initially concentrated on a set of overarching issues. It later conducted 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.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

The Discussion Group identified a number of subjects that may require further analysis and possible formulation of policy language. There are existing policy recommendations adopted by the GNSO Council and ICANN Board, which will remain in place unless the PDP WG determines that changes are needed.

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