The GAC requests written briefing from the ICANN Board on:

• the extent to which applicants will be able to modify their applications as a result of early warnings.

• how ICANN will ensure that any commitments made by applicants, in their applications or as a result of any subsequent changes, will be overseen and enforced by ICANN.

The GAC advises the ICANN Board:

• that it is necessary for all of these statements of commitment and objectives to be transformed into binding contractual commitments,subject to compliance oversight by ICANN.

• The GAC expects that applicants would not be penalised where the standard provisions of a contract are amended in order to meet specific obligations entered into in order to meet governmental concerns.

• Consumer protection

• Strings that are linked to regulated market sectors, such as the financial,

health and charity sectors

• Competition issues

• Strings that have broad or multiple uses or meanings, and where one entity is seeking exclusive use

• Religious terms where the applicant has no, or limited, support from the relevant religious organisations or the religious community

• Minimising the need for defensive registrations

• Protection of geographic names

• Intellectual property rights particularly in relation to strings aimed at the distribution of music, video and other digital material

• The relationship between new gTLD applications and all applicable legislation