Dear colleagues, Greetings for the New Year 2019. During one of the SubPro PDP Sub-Group's review of community submissions received for the Public Comment on the Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4) (which concluded on 26 Sep 2018), that WG's Co-Chair, Jeff Neuman, requested that SO/AC liaisons obtain from their stakeholder groups *feedback on a proposal by Neustar for the (next) New gTLD Program applications to be conducted in three phases followed by an open round*. *Details of Neustar's proposal are contained in the attached slide deck. * I invite you to provide feedback on the same by:- 1) Replying to this email (or to me privately, if you prefer); 2) Starting a separate email thread to cpwg@icann.org if you wish to discuss a specific aspect of the said proposal; and/or 3) Joining the next CPWG call (tentatively on 9 Jan 2019, please look out for a notice from At-Large staff for this call) Thank you. Justine Chew -----