Dear Providers Sub Team, Hope you all had a nice weekend. As per discussions with the Co-Chairs about the ICANN61 RPM sessions, staff anticipate that the two sessions at ICANN61 on Saturday, 10 March (15:15-18:30) will be used for the report from all three URS-related Sub Teams, along with further Working Group discussion of the suggestions made and possible next steps. The proposed agenda for the four RPM sessions will be circulated shortly (Providers Sub Team’s reporting will likely take place during the 15:15-16:45 session). As discussed in our last call, in reporting back to the full WG at ICANN61 about Providers Sub Team’s work progress, staff would like to confirm the representative to do the report. Based on the questionnaire circulated earlier, the following members + Co-Chair (Phil) have indicated that they will attend the Sat session at 15:15-16:45: * Carrie Shang (remote) * Justin Chew (remote) * Lori Schulman (in person) * Phil Corwin (in person) * Phil Marano (in person) * Michael Karanicolas (in person) * Susan Payne (in person) Please be so kind to let staff know who would like to volunteer to do the reporting on behalf of the Sub Team. In terms of the content of the report, the following general points could be mentioned: * The Sub Team has completed the review of URS Rules and Providers’ MoU with ICANN, and proposed objective questions to Providers with regard to specific rules/sections. * The Sub Team will next review and propose objective questions for the URS Procedures, Providers’ Supplemental Rules, and URS High Level Technical Requirements for Registries and Registrars. Some provisions in the URS Rules will be revisited when URS Procedures and Supplemental Rules are being reviewed. The Sub Team estimated 2-3 more meetings after ICANN61 to complete the review of all pertinent documents and the development of objective questions for the Providers. * The Sub Team plans to review and consider incorporation of questions for Providers proposed by the other two Sub Teams, and aims to send the questions to Providers by early April. Staff has compiled a consolidated the list of proposed questions by the Sub Team so far, and please find the document attached. Please let me know what additional materials would be useful for the Providers Sub Team’s reporting on Saturday, 10 March. Last, as discussed with the Co-Chairs, the last RPM session at ICANN61 on Thursday, 15 March will likely be used for URS Providers to conduct presentations. The goal is to help the Sub Team gain more insights into Providers’ practices and further refine the proposed questions. Once the topics of the presentations have been confirmed by the Co-Chairs, we will let the Providers and the Sub Team know; the topics of the “Meet the Providers” session can also be mentioned in the Sub Team’s reporting on Sunday. Thank you, Ariel Ariel Xinyue Liang Policy Analyst | Washington, DC Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)