Dear Councillors,

We would like to remind you of the letter from Steve Crocker to Jonathan Robinson re:  ICANN  Board New  gTLD  Program  Committee Resolution Concerning  Exclusive  Registry  Access  for  gTLD  Strings  Representing  Generic  Terms which is the subject for discussion in Item 5 on the GNSO Council agenda and noted below. There was one comment on the Council list from James Bladel and we encourage you to prepare for this discussion at the Council meeting on Thursday and perhaps also provide comments on the Council list in preparation.

Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION – Letter from ICANN Board Chair on Exclusive Registry Access for gTLD Terms representing Generic Strings (10 minutes)

On 27 July 2015 the ICANN Board Chair sent a letter to the GNSO Chair requesting that the GNSO specifically include the issue of exclusive registry access for generic strings serving a public interest goal as part of the policy work it is planning to initiate on subsequent rounds of the New gTLD Program. The GNSO was also asked to inform the Board on a regular basis with regards to progress on the issue. Here the Council will discuss the letter and decide on its response.

on the GNSO Council agenda, refers to the letter from Steve Crocker to Jonathan Robinson

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org

http://gnso.icann.org