New
gTLD
Subsequent
Procedures PDP
March
2020
Newsletter
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In
March, the
Working Group
focused on
reviewing draft
final
recommendations**
on a
topic-by-topic
basis. The
meetings in
March focused
on
recommendations
for the
following
topics:
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2
March:
Registrant
Protections,
Registrar
Non-Discrimination
/
Registry/Registrar
Standardization, Registrar Support for New gTLDs
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5
March:
TLD Rollout,
Contractual
Compliance
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16
March:
Community
Applications
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19
March:
Community
Applications,
Public
Interest
Commitments/Registry
Voluntary
Commitments
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23
March:
Role of GAC
Consensus
Advice &
GAC Early
Warning
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26
March:
Applicant
Support
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30
March:
String
Similarity
The
Working Group
held three
sessions as
part of the ICANN67
Virtual
Community
Forum
and focused
these sessions
on topics that
are of
particular
interest to
Governmental
Advisory
Committee
(GAC) members.
In doing so,
the Working
Group sought
to take
advantage of
the GAC’s
focus on new
gTLDs at
ICANN67 and
its
encouragement
of GAC member
participation
throughout the
meetings.
In
the first
session
on 9
March,
the Working
Group focused
on the topic
of closed
generic
top-level
domains
(TLDs), and
specifically
discussed
different
perspectives
on whether the
Working Group
should
recommend
allowing,
limiting, or
prohibiting
these TLDs in
subsequent
application
rounds. The second
session
on 10
March
was devoted to
the topic of
the Global
Public
Interest,
including
Mandatory
Public
Interest
Commitments
(PICs),
Voluntary
Public
Interest
Commitments
(which the
Working Group
is tentatively
calling
Registry
Voluntary
Commitments,
or RVCs, for
the purposes
of subsequent
procedures),
DNS abuse, and
Verified TLDs.
In the third
session
on 12
March,
the Working
Group
discussed
possible draft
recommendations on GAC Consensus Advice and GAC Early Warning and
considered
potential
improvements
to the
Applicant
Support
Program.
**
Note that
draft
recommendations
for a subset
of the topics
(Closed
Generics,
Public
Interest
Commitments/Registry
Voluntary
Commitments,
GAC Consensus
Advice and GAC
Early Warning,
Applicant
Support, and
Community
Applications)
are currently
included in a
separate
document.
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The
Working Group
will continue
to develop
draft final
recommendations
taking into
consideration
the Working
Group’s review
of its summary
documents and
any additional
deliberations
that have
taken place.
For the
schedule of
topics that
will be
covered in
April, please
see the
Working
Group’s wiki.
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In
June 2014, the
GNSO Council
established a
Discussion
Group that was
intended to
evaluate the
experiences of
the 2012 round
gTLD Program
and to
identify
possible areas
for future
GNSO policy
development.
The Discussion
Group’s deliverables
served as the
basis for the
GNSO Council
request for a
Preliminary
Issue Report
in June of
2015.
Following
the
publication of
the Final
Issue Report,
the GNSO
Council
adopted the charter
for the PDP
Working Group,
which began
its work in
February 2016.
The Working
Group
initially
concentrated
on a set of
overarching
issues. It
later
conducted
deliberations
on additional
topics in its
charter using
five separate
Work Tracks:
Work Track 1 -
Overall
Process/Support/Outreach,
Work Track 2 -
Legal/Regulatory, Work Track 3: String Contention/Objections &
Disputes, Work
Track 4:
Internationalized
Domain
Names/Technical
&
Operations,
Work Track 5:
Geographic
Names at the
Top Level.
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The
Discussion
Group
identified a
number of
subjects that
may require
further
analysis and
possible
formulation of
policy
language.
There are
existing
policy
recommendations
adopted by the
GNSO Council
and ICANN
Board, which
will remain in
place unless
the PDP WG
determines
that changes
are needed.
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