Dear SSR2 Review Team,

Happy New Year!

Please review the responses to the public comments well before the RT plenary call on January 14th.  I need to highlight the three red boxes.

ROW 40: The response includes the phrase: "The review team did reach out".  I would like confirmation that the subteam took this action.  If that did not happen, we need to correct the response text.

ROWS 235 and 326: We realized that the Abuse Subteam had agreed to say something about brand TLDs, but it did not make it into the document.  Laurin and Heather have proposed some text for the report.  The text appear in suggest mode on pages 40 and 41 of the report.  The public comment response only makes sense if these small additions are added to the report.  Please make sure you review these proposed changes.  If these late changes are not acceptable to the whole RT, then we need to acknowledge that this comment fell through the cracks.

Stay safe, and we will talk on the 14th,
 Russ


Hello SSR2 Review Team,

The proposed responses to the public comments are complete. Please take a moment and read through them on the second tab in the spreadsheet, “Proposed Responses."

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DQpPA0aLDsW5IHLKgQqHtW-5860CKGCuTYIOeMPEaaw/edit#gid=595911168

The final report is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMdW1YCebe6Yj678OUrlc3TsACZsqmwuqN3yaIjTFoc/edit#

Two points of note:
  1. Regarding Line 40 and the comment from the NCSG, "#Recommendation 4 deals with Budget Transparency and Budgeting SSR in the new gTLDs. We suggest that the SSR2 team check how or whether this is related or could be integrated into the ongoing work of the new gTLDs PDP working group.” I do not have any information on whether the RT actually reached out to the new gTLD PDP working group, and so the pubic comment response needs to be verified by the RT.
  2. Regarding Lines 235 and 326, both of which offer feedback on how brand TLDs should be handled in the CZDS, this resulted in a one-line change to the final report. See page 40-41; the change is highlighted via suggest mode.

Thank you for this last bit of effort to wrap up this report, and I look forward to our call on the 14th!

Heather Flanagan — Translator of Geek to Human
https://sphericalcowconsulting.com