Hi Team

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that Justine and I have been reviewing documents over the weekend and today. I want to draw to your attention that there has been changes to documents posted by Ariel previously, most notably recommendation 1.2 under A3; and 2.25 and 2.29 under D1b.

You may recall that during our discussions last week about application fees, we agreed that an applicant may be subject to additional fees across multiple rounds if the cumulative number of allocatable variants they apply for exceeds [x]. As I reviewed the recommendation language earlier today on this matter, I found it difficult to justify such a recommendation because an applicant for allocatable variant label in future rounds will still need to pay the base application fee. If they are only applying for one variant label and that variant label takes them above the threshold of [x] for a previously applied-for and delegated primary gTLD, it seems hard to justify what could be an automatic additional fee. I’ve made notes in the draft to that effect, but I would welcome input from others.

Kind regards

Donna

Dear All,

In preparation for the Monday, 3 April meeting, please find below the documents for your review and input, especially the ones under 1b, 2a, and 2b.

1. Draft Sections of the Phase 1 Initial Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nD-a82Bx_JIYzWcZwBQcD61Aqn_yBPQMVr1l3EpZU_w/edit
2. 1. You can find all draft sections of the Initial Report from the table of contents here

                                                               i.      Section 4, Annex C, and Annex E will be completed right before circulation of the full report to the EPDP Team

                                                             ii.      Staff plan to provide an overview of all these draft sections during the Monday meeting

1. 2. Please specifically focus on the review of the following sections, as EPDP Team’s input are expected be discussed on Monday:

                                                               i.      Section 3 Glossary

                                                             ii.      Section 4 Introduction section to the Preliminary Recommendations  

                                                           iii.      Section 5 Differences Between EPDP-IDNs and ccPDP4 Preliminary Recommendations

1. 2. 3. 1. Leadership team may provide more substantive edits before the call
2. Redline and highlighted draft text that needs to be closed off:  
3. 1. A3 (pp.3-6): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bt0LT45UaLynFNverh1nJhyvq6q6NxgSFAOnOp2LG44/edit
   2. D1b (pp.4-10): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6xKX87w2LtN4Is0mehuRgc1GqjKmbbhT14KbvUH5Sw/edit

                                                               i.      Please focus on the review of the revised Rec 2.25 and 2.29, and the rationale for Rec 2.7, 2.24-2.27, and 2.29

2. 3. B4 (Rec 2.13, p.4): https://docs.google.com/document/d/15YGISgNQYL_VfcVVZ6E97qbo42GPziP6x089bR3wgZw/edit

                                                               i.      We missed to address the leadership comment during yesterday’s call

2. 4. D8 (Rec 2.18, pp.17-18): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6xKX87w2LtN4Is0mehuRgc1GqjKmbbhT14KbvUH5Sw/edit

                                                               i.      We missed to address the updated text during yesterday’s call

2. 5. A9 (Rec 1.12, p.17): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bt0LT45UaLynFNverh1nJhyvq6q6NxgSFAOnOp2LG44/edit

                                                               i.      The definition of the label states may need to be incorporated in the recommendation language based on agreement on the glossary

In addition, on 16 March 2023, the ICANN Board adopted a substantial portion of the SubPro PDP Outputs. The Outputs adopted by the ICANN Board include all the IDN recommendations in Topic 25 of the SubPro PDP Final Report. See details here: https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-regular-meeting-of-the-icann-board-16-03-2023-en. This should have minimum impact on the EPDP preliminary recommendations, as our recommendations are consistent or align with the SubPro recommendations.

Thank you all for your efforts for the final push. Have a nice weekend!

Best Regards,

Ariel