Dear Working Group Members,

Here are the Action Items from the Working Group meeting of 27 July 2016, as well as a note on their status and a link to a Doodle poll that we hope you will fill in at your earliest convenience (with reference to Action Item #1).

1. Staff to create and circulate a Doodle poll seeking Members’ views on whether to continue discussing the standard of proof issue at this stage of deliberations on the TM-PDDRP, and on adding voluntary online mediation as an option to the TM-PDDRP (with details to be further worked out) – DONE.

Note: Please fill out this Doodle poll if you are a Member of the Working Group: http://doodle.com/poll/nc8ydu8cbbywtabm.

2. Staff to work with Brian Winterfeldt to draft follow-up questions for the TM-PDDRP Providers on joint complaints/consolidation, based on what has been discussed by the Working Group to date – IN PROCESS

3. Staff to inform the GNSO Council that, having done a straw poll of the WG membership, the co-chairs’ consensus view is that there is no need for the WG to conduct a face-to-face session at ICANN57 and that it might be more appropriate to have such a session at ICANN58 and/or ICANN59 – DONE.

4. Staff to work with the TMCH Sub Team to see if a revised timeline for delivery of their work output is needed (based on the discussion with the Analysis Group on 29 July) – IN PROCESS.

5. Staff to develop a Survey Monkey questionnaire – to be circulated to the IPC (and possibly the BC, per a suggestion from a co-chair following the Working Group meeting) – to seek information about whether there may have been a “substantial pattern or practice” of infringing behavior at the second level by new gTLD registry operators – QUESTIONS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW BY CO-CHAIRS.

Thanks and cheers

Mary

Mary Wong

Senior Policy Director

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Email: mary.wong@icann.org

Telephone: +1-603-5744889