All,

 

In an effort to offer a compromise between those that favor the prioritization of all IDN applications and those that do not favor the prioritization, I wanted to see if I could provide a compromise solution.

 

Background

The prioritization of IDN applications was a decision made by ICANN org well after all applications were submitted in 2012 and made a lot of sense to the community for the following reasons.  (1) There were only approximate 115 IDN applications out of 1930 (about 6% of the applications); (2) it was the first round to ever accept applications for new IDN gTLDs, (3) part of the rationale for the first expansion was for innovation and expansion of the name space to the global community and (4) it was a good thing to do for the increased globalization of the Internet.

 

Those in favor of prioritization of IDNs still believe that despite not being the first round, reasons (3) and (4) are still worthy of pursuing.  Many who are not in favor of prioritization are afraid that the next round could see thousands of new applications including thousands of IDNs.  To prioritize all IDNs up front could take months or even years (in theory) before a new non-IDN could be processed.

 

Proposal – Proportional Prioritization

What is we stated that the first 10% of each batch of applications must consist of IDN applications until there are no more IDN applications.  Therefore, if ICANN wants to create batches of 500 applications, the first 50 of each application batch processed must be IDNs.  The remaining 450 would be random (of both IDN and Non-IDN applications).

 

Example

In a batch of 500, priority #1-50 must be IDNs; 51-500 can be either IDN or non-IDN applications.  In other words if a particular IDN application is not chosen in #1-50, it would have a equal chance of being selected in 51-500.

 

In the next batch of 500 (Applications #501-1000), #501 - #550 must be IDN (if there are any left), and #551-1000 can be either IDN or non-IDN

 

In the next batch of 500 (Applications #1001 – 1500), #1001 - #1050 must be IDN (if any are left), and #1051 -1500 can be either IDN or non-IDN…..etc

 

Thus in a round with more than 1500 application, there would be a guarantee of evaluating at least 150 IDN applications PLUS any IDN applications showing up in the randomized drawings for the remaining 1,350 spots.

 

I hope this works as a reasonable compromise. 

  

 

Jeff Neuman

Senior Vice President 

 

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