Hi Jeff, I am happy to clarify and avoid any confusion that you may have. here quick answers to your questions. - it already has had community comment once, but a final one for the Board's benefit. - Yes, the implementation work should start in parallel so that there is a chance for this to be available when the new gTLD process begins. As with the gTLD process, once the implementation is ready, the Board will have another opportunity to review and give a final go ahead or stop. But it will take time for the Staff to think through this proposal. And since this is important to the GAC and ALAC,having a plan in implementation study makes it less likely that the start of new gTLDs will be held up because of the absence of a plan to support applicants from developing regions. - The Board is only going to review during the May retreat. Decisions won't be made until June and at that time, hopefully, the GNSO will have had time to review. Regards Rafik Dammak Twitter: @rafik Linkedin: http://tn.linkedin.com/in/rafikdammak 2011/5/11 Neuman, Jeff <Jeff.Neuman@neustar.us>

I am actually a little confused by the motion. It talks about putting this out for community review, but at the same time forwarding it to the Bd for approval AND for the staff to begin implementation.

shouldn't the motion stop at putting it out for community review? Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq. Vice President, Law & Policy NeuStar, Inc. Jeff.Neuman@neustar.biz

*From*: Stéphane Van Gelder [mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com] *Sent*: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 08:22 AM *To*: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak@gmail.com> *Cc*: Council GNSO <council@gnso.icann.org>; Glen de Saint Géry < Glen@icann.org> *Subject*: Re: [council] JAS motion

Thanks Rafik.

Is there a second for this motion?

Stéphane

Le 11 mai 2011 à 13:16, Rafik Dammak a écrit :

Hello,

I would like to submit this motion regarding the JAS milestone report.

Regards Rafik

Whereas:

The GNSO council and ALAC established the Joint SO/AC Working Group (JASWG) on support for new gTLD applicants in April of 2010; and

The Working Group released it Milestone Report posted for consideration by the Board, Chartering Organizations and at-large Community. This report documented the completion of work as defined in the orignal charter and requested an update to the Working Groups charter, and

The GNSO and ALAC, separately, renewed the Working Groups charter with additional work item in February 2011, and

The Joint SO/AC Working Group received and discussed the public comments, and

The Joint SO/AC Working Group has completed the work as defined in its extended charter and published a second milestone report ( https://community.icann.org/display/jaswg/JAS+Issues+and+Recommendations#) on 8 May 2011 covering those chartered items ( http://gnso.icann.org/resolutions/#20110113-1) entitled JAS Milestone Report. and

The GNSO council does not wish to delay the start of the new gTLD application process, and

The GNSO council does not wish to delay implementation of support programs for applicants from developing regions,

Resolved:

The GNSO Council thanks the members of the Joint SO/AC Working Group for its efforts and its dedication to completing the work on such a tight schedule, and

The GNSO Council request that the report be put out for community review as soon as possible,

The GNSO Council approves forwarding the second JAS Milestone Report to the ICANN board for review and approval, and

The GNSO Council request ICANN staff begin working on implementation of the recommendation pending Board approval, and

The JAS Working Group continues working to deal with any issues that may arise in the upcoming review by the community, the Board and from the Staff in the process of implementing the proposals, and

That the JAS Working group publish their final report after this review process.

Resolved further, that the GNSO Council instructs the GNSO Chair to communicate its decision to the ALAC Chair.