At the its 20 May 2021 Monthly Call, the following recommendation was adopted for APRALO to submit a statement in response to the Call for Public Comments to the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Final Outputs for ICANN Board Consideration (which closes on 1 June).

• That APRALO ought to submit a statement to this Public Comment Process
• That a small team of drafters be conscripted to prepare such a statement
• That the statement should:-
  
  • Endorse the ratified ALAC Advice on Subsequent Procedures of 16 April 2021 
  • Emphasize in particular the importance of the following:
    
    1. To facilitate increased adoption of Universal Acceptance (UA) & Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
    2. To facilitate increased & equitable access by “Global South”, community / niche TLD applicants through the Applicant Support Program (ASP) & Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) and a ban on private auctions
    3. To advocate for ALAC to have automatic standing to file Community Objections (where it deems necessary)
• That the prepared statement be circulated through the APAC-Discuss mailing list by Wed 26 May 2021 for comments
• That the APRALO Leadership Team be empowered to finalize and submit the statement prior to the 1 June 2021 submission deadline

On behalf of the small team of penholders, I am now inviting comments to the draft statement, if any, by Saturday 29 May, to enable the statement to be finalized in time for submission by 1 June. 

To Comment on the draft statement, please go to: < this googledoc link > 

Additional Background

 A Public Comment Process has been initiated to invite comments to the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Final Outputs for ICANN Board Consideration. This Public Comment Process, which closes on 1 June 2021, is intended to focus on all Outputs approved by the GNSO Council, rather than the Outputs that were not approved. Those not approved are Topic 23 Closed Generics in its entirety and recommendations 35.2 and 35.4 from Topic 35 Auctions: Mechanisms of Last Resort / Private Resolution of Contention Sets.

At the Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) call on 28 April 2021, CPWG Co-Chair Olivier Crepin-Leblond suggested that each RALO may wish to consider submitting its own statement to this Public Comment Process. It was also suggested that such a RALO statement, if any, might be based on the ALAC Advice on Subsequent Procedures, which had been developed through the CPWG deliberation process and subsequently ratified unanimously by the ALAC prior to its submission to the ICANN Board on 16 April 2021. For reference, this particular ALAC Advice is published along with translation in the other 5 UN languages as well at the CPWG work space.


Many thanks,