New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP February 2020 Newsletter

CURRENT STATUS

In February, the Working Group focused on reviewing draft final recommendations on a topic-by-topic basis. The meetings in February focused on recommendations for the following topics: 3 February: Application Submission Period 3 February: Terms and Conditions 6 February: Continuing Subsequent Procedures 6 February, 10 February: Applications Assessed in Rounds 10 February: Registry Service Provider Pre-Evaluation 13 February: Universal Acceptance 13 February: Registry System Testing 18 February: Application Queuing 18 February, 20 February: Closed Generics  25 February: Applications Submission Limits 25 February: Role of Application Comment 27 February: Applicant Reviews During the GNSO Council’s 20 February meeting, the Council considered a Project Change Request from the Subsequent Procedures Working Group leadership team outlining a revised projection for the PDP’s end date. As part of the GNSO’s PDP 3.0 initiative to develop incremental improvements in PDPs, working groups must now submit Project Change Requests to the GNSO Council when they anticipate a material change to the PDP, including its schedule. The Subsequent Procedures PDP WG’s revised work plan anticipates that the PDP will deliver its Final Report to the GNSO Council no later than the end of 2020. The current work plan is available on the Working Group’s wiki.

NEXT STEPS

The Working Group will continue to develop 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 March, please see the Working Group’s wiki. With ICANN67 now being planned as a remote meeting, coordination is underway to develop a revised meeting schedule. The Working Group plans to hold working sessions as part of the remote meeting. The latest information about the ICANN67 schedule is 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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