All, On behalf of co-chairs, I am forwarding to the full Working Group an e-mail we received this morning from the Registry Service Provider Discussion Group of gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group. Registry Service Providers (RSPs) are those that provide the technical back-end services for Registry Operators. In some cases, the RSP is the same entity as the Registry Operator, but in many cases a Registry Operator outsources its registry services to a third party RSP. Although it primarily relates to Work Tracks 1 and 4 in discussing a potential RSP pre-approval process, much of it relates to other discussions that they are having with ICANN staff on other issues. I wanted to send it to the full group in case anyone else was interested in reviewing. Best regards, Jeffrey J. Neuman Senior Vice President |Valideus USA | Com Laude USA 1751 Pinnacle Drive, Suite 600 Mclean, VA 22102, United States E: jeff.neuman@valideus.com<mailto:jeff.neuman@valideus.com> or jeff.neuman@comlaude.com<mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com> T: +1.703.635.7514 M: +1.202.549.5079 @Jintlaw From: Stéphane Van Gelder - Milathan [mailto:svg@milathan.ltd] Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 5:37 AM To: Jeff Neuman <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com>; Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr@gmail.com> Cc: rsp-program-discussion@googlegroups.com Subject: Summary document from the RySG Registry Service Provider Discussion Group (RSP DG) Cheryl, Jeff, In my capacity as Chair of the Registry Stakeholder Group’s RSP DG, I am forwarding the attached document. The document is a summary of our discussions and we are submitting this to you in the hope that it will help the SubPro WG in its own work of forming policy recommendations on procedures for subsequent rounds. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you have any follow-up questions. Best, Stéphane Van Gelder Chairman and Managing Director Milathan LTD "Internet Intelligence - Strategic Advice" ———————— Discover The Milathan Post on http://post.milathan.com<http://post.milathan.com/> Follow me on Twitter: @stephvg ————————