Hello Paul,
Also, apologies if this has been asked & answered, but I didn’t see a list of participants in the “small group” that the Board references. Do we know who those members are?
The group was formed in October 2014. I don’t have names of individuals but it seems to have consisted of: - representatives from the IGO coalition that first raised the issue and who participate in the GAC as observers (including the OECD, WIPO and the UN); - the GAC Chair, - and Board representatives from the new gTLD program committee that was in place at the time this issue came to light (primarily Chris Disspain). I gather a few others attended some of the meetings as well - e.g. Donna Austin and Mason Cole. The group is not decisional - just an ad-hoc group formed to see if they could come up with a proposal that they thought would be acceptable to the GNSO. Regards, Bruce Tonkin