Hi Cheryl and Justine,

Thank you for your patience as we discussed these suggestions internally. You raise an important point in highlighting the areas that applicants will want to be aware of when it comes to the gTLD application and evaluation.

We believe that many of these topics would likely be covered in the more high level descriptions of pro bono services we solicited in the announcement and sign up form, which already has a number of sign ups.

ICANN org, in its facilitative role in making supported applicants aware of the services available, will leave it up to the service provider to determine which services they are comfortable offering, and for the supported applicant to arrange those with the service provider. This is especially important when it comes to services that relate to application drafting, as there is sensitivity around liability for pro bono service providers in this area and most of the services we solicited were focused on preparing applicants to apply for a gTLD.

We agree that it would be beneficial to both make supported applicants aware of the areas in which they might anticipate needing consultation and to highlight more specifically the diversity of services that pro bono professional service providers are able to offer. We could, for example, incorporate this into one of our planned “Meet the Pro Bono Service Providers” webinars for supported applicants and ask them if they can speak to these areas specifically, among others.

There also may be an opportunity for community groups such as the ALAC to provide guidance to supported applicants and prospective gTLD applicants alike on issues they may expect to encounter in the gTLD application process and where they may want to go to connect with people who have expertise in these areas.

All this said, we’d be happy to set up a time to discuss during an ASP-IRT Sub Track meeting, if helpful. We recognize that many IRT members have fully packed schedules so we plan to send a general ASP email update in the coming weeks to get a sense of whether folks would like to schedule an ASP-IRT Sub Track meeting.

Kind regards,

Kristy, on behalf of the ASP Project Team

Many thanks, Justine, for these additional suggestions. We’ll discuss internally how to best integrate these into the registration process and report back to the ASP-IRT shortly.

Kind regards,

Kristy

On Mar 15, 2025, at 02:36, Justine Chew <justine.chew.icann@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Kristy,

Thank you for your super prompt response. In reply to your question:-

1. Assistance with "contention set resolution", objection resolution and appeals if those haven't been envisaged under business or legal advice;

2. Assistance with IDNs should include that for TL variant management and perhaps SL variant management as well;

3. Guidance towards Safety PICs and RVCs would be useful; and

4. Assistance with developing a Mitigation Plan for high risk of Name Collisions is likely the hardest to identify.

Looking forward to your/your team's onward suggestions.

Kind regards,
Cheryl and Justine
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, 15:22 Kristy Buckley, <kristy.buckley@icann.org> wrote:

Hi Justine and Cheryl,

Thanks for your note. We received a few questions this week about recruiting specialized skillsets among pro bono service providers.

We didn’t yet specify these types of specialized topics in the registration process but I agree it may be helpful to figure out how to identify such experts. Let us discuss next week as a team on some ideas for how to approach this and come back with some suggestions on-list.

Are there any other specialized skills or knowledge you’d suggest we recruit for beyond the list we have here? (https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-seeks-mentors-and-pro-bono-service-providers-to-assist-asp-candidates-21-10-2024-en)

Appreciate the suggestion!

Kind regards,
Kristy

On Mar 14, 2025, at 14:55, Justine Chew via Subpro-irt-asp <subpro-irt-asp@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Kristy, Sam,

We are aware that the recruitment of Probono service providers is well under way. Now that more details of the new Names Collision Risk Management have been revealed, we would like to know of the ICANN org ASP Team are putting any effort into securing the services of someone with expertise in that Framework who would be able to advise ASP qualifiers on preparing the necessary mitigation plan in case their strings were found to carry a high risk of Names Collision?

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Cheryl and Justine
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