Dear Councillors, Please, can you let me know by 4 August in case you do not agree with the triage decision on request 42-2014: RSTEP Report on Public Interest Registry's Request to Implement Technical Bundling in .NGO and .ONG Kind regards, Gabi

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Topic: Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) Report on Public Interest Registry's Request to Implement Technical Bundling in .NGO and .ONG

Originator: ICANN

Summary of request: The Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) has published a report regarding the Public Interest Registry's (PIR) request to implement technical bundling of second level domains for .NGO and .ONG. PIR defines technical bundling as a set of two different gTLDs, with identical second level labels for which certain parameters are shared. In short, the RSTEP report concludes following: "Our technical evaluation of this proposed registry service with respect to the likelihood and materiality of effects on security and stability concludes that it does not create a reasonable risk of a meaningful adverse effect on security and stability. This finding is predicated on PIR demonstrating to ICANN's satisfaction throughout the lifetime of the service that PIR is capable of operating the service as it is specified in the combination of registry service application and the answers to the questions asked by the review team. In order to present a complete analysis of the issues facing all of the parties affected by the PIR proposal (registrants of .ngo and .ong domain names, users of the DNS who look up names in those zones, registrars, users of the DNS as a whole, and PIR itself), the review team identified and analyzed many real but less critical potential stability issues in addition to those summarized above." https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rstep-technical-bundling-2014-07-29-en

Date received: 30 July 2014

Last day for Comments/input/response, if any: 5 August 2014

Recommended action, if any: None

Expertise needed, if any: Technical

Date of submission to Council: 1 August 2014

Last date of Council decision: 4 August 2014

Impact on ccNSO/ccTLDs: Low