Dear Registry Operator representatives of the IRT, As you know, we’ve received comments from the RySG on 9 July 2017 and implementation team is working through the comments to understand the specific requests. In the RySG comment, we note that the implementation time be extended from 6 months to 12 months. “a. An implementation date of 1 February 2018 may not provide proper time for Registry Operators to prepare for new processes or integration with the INGO Claims System. However, the preferred approach is to leverage TMCH for Claims Services. Therefore, we recommend setting an implementation no earlier than 12 months from the approval of the specifications.” We have discussed the 6-month implementation timeline during the drafting of the implementation plan and it was deemed adequate and therefore decided on the 1 Feb 2018 effective date with 1 August 2017 announcement. We are now trying to gain an understanding of need for the extended implementation duration. Is the 12-months requested with the assumption that we will not be leveraging the TMCH claims service? If the implementation plan is “the preferred approach to leverage TMCH,” would the 6-month duration be acceptable? In light of the fact that we were advised some ROs did not want delays on this implementation, it would be helpful for us to have a good understanding for accepting this requested change from RySG. We were going to reach out to RySG directly then realized that five of our own IRT are members of the RySG and could provide the rationale to us directly. Please let us hear from you. It would be good to have this answer prior to our IRT meeting to take a decision then. — Kind Regards, Dennis S. Chang GDD Services & Engagement Program Director +1 213 293 7889 Skype: dennisSchang www.icann.org "One World, One Internet"