Dear WT5 members,

Please find attached draft text for the following sections of the Initial Report:

• c. What are the preliminary recommendations and/or implementation guidelines?
• d. What are the options under consideration, along with the associated benefits / drawbacks?
• e. What specific questions are the PDP WG seeking feedback on?

These sections will be discussed on our upcoming call scheduled for Wednesday 3 October at 20:00 UTC. Please review this document prior to the call. If you would like to provide comments or raise concerns about sections of the text prior to the call for further discussion on the call, please send your comments in the body of an email, clearly identifying the page number and passage on which you are commenting. Please do not send your own redline version of the text to the mailing list. Given the very large number of WT members, it will be very difficult to reconcile many different redline versions.

The following sections of the report are still being drafted and will be shared when ready:

• a.     What is the relevant 2007 policy and/or implementation guidance (if any)?
• b.     How was it implemented in the 2012 round of the New gTLD Program?
• f.      Deliberations
• g.     Are there other activities in the community that may serve as a dependency or future input to this topic?

The Deliberations section will contain the summary of different positions and perspectives raised in WT discussions and on the mailing list.

Kind regards,

Emily

Emily Barabas | Policy Manager

ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Email: emily.barabas@icann.org | Phone: +31 (0)6 84507976