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Revised PPSAI Responses to Threshold Questions
by John Emery Nov. 1, 2025

Nov. 1, 2025

Hello PPSAI Small Team, I have updated the PPSAI Small Team Responses to Threshold Questions in line with the discussion at the 29 October Council Meeting. First, I have fixed the typo on TQ K Issue 1. Most crucially the language has been updated in response to the registrar addition to TQ B as follows. ANSWER TQ B: The GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team recommends that Council confirm that none of the 3 original accreditation models be precluded as infeasible. The Small Team would like Council to offer some non-binding guidance based on the Small Team’s discussions on the practicalities of each model. Consensus emerged that there would be no foreseeable issues with model 2 or model 3 as written as they comply with the policy recommendations as written. Most believe model 4 calls for no accreditation program and is inconsistent with the policy and is not fit for purpose, but registrars disagree and believe this would be accreditation by association. Model 1 received mixed reviews amongst the Small Team as some were adamantly opposed to it, while others recognized perhaps its future utility for a possible unaffiliated P/P provider business model to arise that could need policy work. Implementing model 1 over models 2 or 3 seems less efficient and the IRT could reasonably favor those models over model 1. Please voice any objections to the revised language by EOB Wednesday 4 November 2025. Thank you, John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org>

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Post Call | GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team | Monday, 29 September 2025
by Terri Agnew Oct. 28, 2025

Oct. 28, 2025

Dear all, Please use link below to access the attendance and the recording on the small team wiki page, 2025 Meetings tab, for the GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call held on Monday, 29 September 2025 at 14:00 UTC. Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AgDNGQ Thank you! Kind regards, Terri Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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**Starting in 15 minutes | Meeting Invite | GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team | Monday, 29 September 2025
by Terri Agnew Sept. 29, 2025

Sept. 29, 2025

**Starting in 15 minutes Dear all, Thank you for completing the doodle poll! The next GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call will take place on Monday, 29 September 2025 at 14:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting: https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +13126266799,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Chicago) +13462487799,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Houston) Join instructions https://icann.zoom.us/meetings/96611661142/invitations?signature=IhYynF97T3… Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AgDNGQ Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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REMINDER | Meeting Invite | GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team | Monday, 29 September 2025
by Devan Reed Sept. 26, 2025

Sept. 26, 2025

Dear all, Thank you for completing the doodle poll! The next GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call will take place on Monday, 29 September 2025 at 14:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting: https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +13126266799,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Chicago) +13462487799,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Houston) Join instructions https://icann.zoom.us/meetings/96611661142/invitations?signature=IhYynF97T3… Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AgDNGQ Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Final Meeting Monday 29 September 14:00 UTC
by John Emery Sept. 25, 2025

Sept. 25, 2025

Dear PPSAI Small Team, As a reminder our final meeting will take place on Monday 29 September at 14:00 UTC. Please add all your comments and queries to the working document here as your homework: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SOk8cJzH8LZBI-oqfHbXJ9AdLD8ORHylcm0cI00… We aim to finalize the document to send to the GNSO Council for socialization so that it can be discussed at the Council meeting during ICANN84. Thank you, John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org>

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Meeting Invite | GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team | Monday, 29 September 2025
by Julie Bisland Sept. 24, 2025

Sept. 24, 2025

Dear all, Thank you for completing the doodle poll! The next GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call will take place on Monday, 29 September 2025 at 14:00 UTC for 60 minutes. Join Zoom Meeting: https://icann.zoom.us/j/96611661142?pwd=K2VpaHlzNkNuY1J6YzRYcW1sd0VjUT09 Meeting ID: 966 1166 1142 Passcode: Z4B3SUR!U& One tap mobile +13126266799,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Chicago) +13462487799,,96611661142#,,,,*0505103780# US (Houston) Join instructions https://icann.zoom.us/meetings/96611661142/invitations?signature=IhYynF97T3… Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AgDNGQ Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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REMINDER-PLEASE COMPLETE DOODLE - Week of 29 September Doodle Poll | GNSO Council PPSAI Small team
by Julie Bisland Sept. 23, 2025

Sept. 23, 2025

Dear all, Please complete the doodle poll as soon as possible to schedule the next GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call for the week of 29 September 2025. Doodle: https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/dJXlGD9a Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Week of 29 September Doodle Poll | GNSO Council PPSAI Small team
by Julie Bisland Sept. 22, 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

Dear all, Please complete the doodle poll as soon as possible to schedule the next GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call for the week of 29 September 2025. Doodle: https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/dJXlGD9a Thank you. Kind regards, Julie Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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Meeting #5 Notes 22 September 2025
by John Emery Sept. 22, 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

Hello All, Please find the attached notes and action items from the PPSAI Small Team Meeting #5. Please review the staff adjustments to the language in TQC and TQK and edit as you see fit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SOk8cJzH8LZBI-oqfHbXJ9AdLD8ORHylcm0cI00… Action Items: ALL: Fill out incoming doodle poll for next week’s final Small Team Meeting ALL: Review Staff adjustments to language on TQC and TQK ALL: Review all finalized strawpeople for next week’s FINAL meeting Staff: Make suggested revisions to TQ C and TQK [COMPLETED] Notes: * Paul Spoke to Farzi about disclosure framework discussed for legal and there would be a HRIA encourage IRT to have disclosure framework looked at by legal Staff to stick sentence in on the end (AI Staff to add text toTQ C) * Question from Leon disclosure framework has an extensive legal review. That legal review has been done, which areas or questions they would like to raise for the legal review. * Legal review for disclosure framework is built to make sure nothing went astray. When IRT is done and ready to push go, have the lawyers look at it again. How HRIA is done, the IRT would like NCSG help, they can ask for that help, but not Council issue per se. * HRIA assessment is a task for the IRT once it is finalized. Like a legal review will take at the end when the disclosure framework is established. * TQK: Where we sit in the racetrack of policy and implementation. We are well into implementation work. There are other things going on in the community, but those things are not policy, some are implementation. All interesting and may get things across finish line before us. IRT can't stop its work while we wait for Board adopted policies. Community work will never stop. IRT standing still is not practical, it would be like a pile up on the freeway. * Alignment is worthwhile but not necessary. Urgent requests (adopted but not implemented). * TQK: Agreement with the text, but the wording is off in that it sounded like anything that came out of this would take precedent over polices that had been agreed to since. With Reg Data policy supersedes comes out of PPSAI. It would not overtake policy that has intervened. This can set the current precedent for the moment, but if there has been intervening policy, like Reg Data, that must be taken into consideration here. But we don't have to wait for policy work currently being done by WG to make sense. * (AI for John: tighten up language on TQK) * TQA Issue 2: Concern about assumption that this only applies to affiliated P/P providers. We decided this could only apply to affiliated service providers. That was not the decision of the PDP, as they did make a distinction, this appears to be making policy. * Distinction, if a registrar is not to knowingly do business with an unaccredited P/P service. Did the final report say that this should apply to unaffiliated? Final report raises the issue and suggests that the "may require implementation adjustment" a model may accredit providers despite those not affiliated with a registrar. * Former IRT looked for unaffiliated providers, no provider has officially become known. Final report is vague, and this could be considered "implementation adjustment" as it has not been implemented. * "In the event and unaffiliated P/P service seeks accreditation, then the IRT may need to be reconvened to accommodate that." * Result: softened language in Issue 2. 3.7.7 Clarification it reads that indicates that it only applies to non-accredited entitles and applies to everyone, why we need this if it applies to everyone. Sentence flipped in the end of the last paragraph. * TQ B: text updated to soften language about the non-existence of unaffiliated P/P providers * TQ C: implementation guidance, gist implementation guidance is not policy, but explain why referring to it does not refer to this issue as implementation guidance. It was an intentional thing to not call out this as implementation guidance. If there is concern with this. * What is the difference between implementation guidance, implementation note, and policy. Report does not call this area in implementation guidance. This does not meet that level of weight. * It was noted that some things in the report were called implementation guidance, and specifically this issue was not. * Caitlin: addressed the clear question of guidance and note. Where they appear. Guidance is in the final report and that is language that WG agreed to have in IRT. A note exists in some consensus policy to help CP for what policy language might mean. Example of expired names, notice approx. 1 month prior to expiration 26-35 days. Simply: Guidance is helping IRT and ICANN org and a note is when policy is in effect what it means for contracted parties. * TQK action item staff to add sentences. * There will be a final call next week to agree to finalized text after staff has made the requested adjustments * It was raised that registrars will ask questions about the need to do and what needs to be done. A lot that has already been implemented. Ways to figure out ways to implement those areas. Some things that don't need to be implemented at this point. * This would likely be a letter to the IRT from the registrars to the IRT rather than something for Council to deliberate * Small Team is on track to deliver for October Council meeting Thank you, John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org>

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Post Call | GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team | Monday, 22 September 2025
by Devan Reed Sept. 22, 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

Dear all, Please use link below to access the attendance and the recording on the small team wiki page, 2025 Meetings tab, for the GNSO Council PPSAI Small Team call held on Thursday, 22 September 2025 at 14:00 UTC. Wiki space: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AgDNGQ Thank you! Kind regards, Devan Policy Team Supporting the GNSO

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