Dear Steve,

Thanks for this information. Could you please clarify:

1. At the bottom of page 5, under gTLDs and Urgency column, does "... once the list of applied-for strings for the 2026 round are confirmed,.." refer to String Confirmation Day?; and

2. In the chart on page 2, does "New gTLD Program" refer to SPIRT?

Thanks,
Justine



On Sat, 6 Sept 2025 at 00:31, Steve Chan via council <council@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Councilors,

 

Attached, please find an updated work prioritization document. As was requested the last time this document was discussed by the Council, we have added educated guesses on what the next steps are for each area of work and based on those assumptions, we tried to assess a level of effort. In addition, we’ve also added a timeline graphic that tries to show how current and anticipated work lines up against each other, along with key inputs/dependencies related to the items in the prioritization matrix.

 

I want to include some caveats to the things we’ve added, since this exercise is definitely more art than science. First, staff does not expect that we got the “What Could the Future Work Look Like” column precisely right in every instance, nor are we trying to get ahead of Council decisions. Second, please do not hold us to any of the dates we’ve included in the timeline graphic, other than for the Latin Diacritics PDP! While we recognize how useful it is to have a timeline graphic, there is a ton of guesswork involved; I’m not even sure I want to describe the dates as educated guesses!

 

Despite the caveats, I hope this attached document proves useful to the Council’s work prioritization efforts during the upcoming September Council meeting.

 

Best,

Steve

 

 

 

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