Regarding Section 1.3.2(b) of Foundational Issues, the following draft from the Initial Report seems a bit biased to me, especially as to the paraphrasing of the GAC Advice in the highlighted language:

 

In October 2012, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)

provided advice to the ICANN Board of Directors of ICANN that it should come up with a mechanism to incorporate certain commitments, business plans, registration restrictions, additional rights protection mechanisms and other objectives in the Base Registry Agreement such that they could be overseen by ICANN’s compliance department. In response to the GAC, the New gTLD Program Committee of the Board proposed a new Specification 11 to the Base Registry Agreement to transform application statements into binding contractual commitments,

 

 

I believe the focus of the GAC Advice was consumer protection  - not approval of business plans and adding RPMs as stated in the draft.   The actual GAC Advice with respect to Category 1 Safeguards was as follows:

 

 

 

 

Dear WG Members,

 

Below, please find the proposed agenda for the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures WG meeting scheduled for 12 June 2018 at 03:00 UTC, for 90 minutes.

 

1. Agenda Review
2. Roll Call/SOIs
3. Review of the Initial Report (continued). * The purpose of this review is to ensure that preliminary outcomes and deliberations are accurately captured and written in an understandable manner. The WG Co-Chairs have sought to make clear that this exercise is not intended to re-open substantive discussions, which is better served by the submission of public comments and subsequently when reviewing public comments received. Please submit your comments about these sections to the Working Group mailing list (gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org) in advance of the meeting.
   1. Continue and Complete Section 1.7 (Name Collisions) 
   2. Begin Review of Section 1.3 (Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice; Global Public Interest; Applicant Freedom of Expression; Universal Acceptance)
   3. Time Permitting, Begin Review of Section 1.8 (Objections; Accountability Mechanisms)
4. AOB

 

For Item 3, the relevant documents are attached. As a reminder, please note that a resource page has been set up on the Wiki to track the distribution of Initial Report sections, which you can find here: https://community.icann.org/x/NwUhB. As you can see in the link, the following sections have been released:

 

1.2: Overarching Issues

1.3: Foundational Issues

1.4: Pre-Launch Activities

1.5: Application Submission

1.6: Application Processing

1.7: Application Evaluation/Criteria

1.8: Dispute Proceedings

1.10: Contracting

1.11: Pre-Delegation

1.12: Post-Delegation

 

Those signed up as Members to this PDP WG should have received meeting information from the SOAC Support team. If you did not receive these participation details or if you would like to send your apologies, please contact the SOAC Support team (gnso-secs@icann.org).

 

Best,

Steve

 

 

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