Dear Work Track 5 members,

Please see below the action items and notes from the Work Track 5 meeting today, 24 April 2019.  These high-level notes are designed to help WT5 members navigate through the content of the call and are not a substitute for the recording, transcript, or the chat, which will be posted on the wiki at: https://community.icann.org/display/NGSPP/2019-04-24+New+gTLD+Subsequent+Procedures+PDP+Work+Track+5.

Kind regards,

Julie

Julie Hedlund, Policy Director

Notes and Action Items:

Action Items:

ACTION ITEM 1: Question e10: Line 187 -- comment from RDS-HN should be added to the list of comments for which clarification ought to be sought (as per last 2 calls) on that "Support" refers to.  Add this to the other comments from RDS-HN.

Brief Notes:

1. Updates to Statements of Interest: No updates provided.

2. Continue Review of Public Comments:

a. Questions for Community Input – start at Question e10, line 181

Question e10:

Line 181 -- INTA -- keep existing protections, does not reference specific proposals

Line 182 -- NCSG -- New Idea, Concerns -- modified (as in, insert contractual requirements), curative mechanism, does not reference specific proposals

Line 183 -- ALAC -- references proposals

Line 184 -- RySG -- references proposals

Line 185 -- Group of Registries, etc. -- references proposals

Line 186 -- Business Constituency -- New Idea

Line 187 -- RDS-HN -- [comment]

Question e11:

Line 189 -- Government of Spain, et al. -- extend non-objection to non-AGB terms (does not identify specific categories)

Line 190 -- Portuguese Government -- extend non-objection to non-AGB terms etc.

Line 191 -- Government of Brazil -- extend non-objection to non-AGB terms etc.

Line 192 -- ALAC -- Some support reservation of currency codes under ISO 4217

Line 193 -- Governments of Argentina, Chile, and Colombia -- References proposals 1-5

Line 194 -- RySG -- Some oppose additional restrictions, some support extending protections to non-ASCII, non-AGB terms

Line 195 -- Brand Registry Group -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 196 -- Business Constituency -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 197 -- Registrar Stakeholder Group -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 198 -- Intellectual Property Constituency -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 199 -- INTA -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 200 -- United States -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 201 -- Group of Registries et al. -- opposes additional restrictions

Line 202 -- NCSG -- cites proposal 37

Line 203 -- dotBerlin et al. -- enhance protections for non-ASCII geographic terms not included in the 2012 AGB

Line 204 -- Dotzon GmBH -- enhance protections for non-ASCII geographic terms not included in the 2012 AGB

b. Options/Proposals: General measures proposed to improve the new gTLD program (see deliberations section f.1.2.5 for context)

General Comments:

Line 4 -- United States -- [general comment]

Proposal 1 (implementation improvement):

Line 6 -- Government of Spain et al. -- Agreement

Line 7 -- ccNSO -- Agreement

Line 8 -- Singapore -- Agreement

Line 9 -- Georgia -- Agreement

Line 10 -- dotBerlin et al. -- Agreement

Line 11 -- CENTR AFNIC -- Agreement

Line 12 -- Portuguese Government -- Agreement

Line 13 -- Governments of Argentina, Chile, Colombia -- Agreement

Line 14 -- Business Constituency -- Agreement

Line 15 -- RDS-HN (Honduras) -- Agreement

Line 16 -- ALAC -- Agreement

Line 17 -- United States -- Agreement

Line 18 -- Brand Registry Group -- Agreement (qualified), Concerns

Line 19 -- Registrar Stakeholder Group -- Agreement (qualified), Concerns

Line  20 -- NCSG -- Agreement (qualified), Concerns

Line 21 -- RySG -- Agreement, Divergence

Line 22 -- Dotzon GmBH -- Divergence

Line 23 -- IPC -- Divergence

Next call Tuesday, 30 April 20:00 UTC: Start at line 24, INTA comment.