Dear SubPro WG Members and Observers, First, we wanted to remind you that this week we will have 2 Full Working Group calls and one call the week of June 18th to finalize all of the materials for the Preliminary Report. The calls are at: * Tuesday, June 12: 03:00 UTC (For those in the US, that means 11:00 pm on the East Coast and 8:00 pm on the West Coast tonight) * Thursday, June 14: 20:00 UTC * Monday, June 18: 15:00 UTC Second, as you are aware, we are fast approaching ICANN 62 in Panama in just a few short weeks. The entire leadership team is actively preparing for our scheduled 5 face to face sessions. Those sessions are currently scheduled for: * SubPro WG Work Tracks 1-4 Session 1: Monday, June 25: 9:00 - 10:15 (Local Panama Time) * SubPro WG Work Tracks 1-4 Session 2: Monday, June 25: 10:30 - 12:00 (Local Panama Time) * SubPro WG Work Track 5 Session 1: Monday, June 25: 15:15 - 16:45 (Local Panama Time) * SubPro WG Work Tracks 1-4 Session 3: Thursday, June 28: 13:30 - 15:00 (Local Panama Time) * SubPro WG Work Track 5 Session 2: Thursday, June 28: 15:15 - 16:45 (Local Panama Time) The leadership team is aware that there are a number of conflicting sessions that have been scheduled during the times that we are scheduled to meet and that as a result many of you will be in a position of having to decide which sessions to attend. We sincerely hope that you can attend all of our meetings. Because this is the Policy Forum, a meeting that is structured to further our policy development work, we are planning some critical interactive sessions that will enable us as a group to move forward with some of our most contentious issues. Although the Initial Report will hopefully be out by the time that we are in Panama, there is still a lot of work ahead of us as we hit the home stretch working towards a final report. Completion of our Final Report is a key gating item before the implementation work for the next application window for new gTLDs to begin. As a reminder, the plan is to publish the Initial Report before Panama, but not start the Public Comment period prior to the ICANN Meeting. We will likely start the comment period the week after the ICANN meeting. We will discuss this again on the call tonight/tomorrow. With respect to Work Tracks 1-4, the leadership team will likely be finalizing the list of topics to be discussed over the next week, but those topics are likely to include: (a) working towards a final proposal on exclusive use / closed generic TLDs, (b) the use of Private Auctions to resolve string contention, and (c) working on deliverables expected to be delivered to us by the CCT Review Team. We will likely be breaking up into smaller groups during the scheduled sessions to provide everyone with the opportunity to weigh in on these topics and to develop the tools we need to complete our work. The sessions in Panama will be the only chance to do this in a face to face setting and will be used to decide how we move ahead. For Work Track 5, the four Co-Leaders will be reaching out to you all shortly on its finalized agendas. We understand that you have some difficult choices on how to prioritize your time at ICANN 62 and sincerely hope that you attend our sessions. There will be recordings, notes and transcripts from all of the meetings and if you are unable to attend, you will still nonetheless be expected to have reviewed those materials before our next meeting after ICANN 62. Best regards, Cheryl Langdon-Orr Jeff Neuman SubPro PDP Co-Chairs 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