Dear All, 

 

With ICANN84 just around the corner, we would like to share with you the list of Next Round related sessions that have been confirmed so far.

 

Date

Time UTC

Name

Link

25-Oct-25

08:00-09:00

SubPro IRT Work Session (1 of 6)

Community Briefing Session

Applicant Journey | Community Input, Objections, and Appeals

https://sched.co/29QHF

25-Oct-25

12:15-13:30

GAC Capacity Development Session on New gTLD Program (1 of 2)

https://sched.co/29QGT

25-Oct-25

14:00-15:00

SubPro IRT Work Session (2 of 6)

Community Briefing Session: Application Evaluation

https://sched.co/29QHI

25-Oct-25

14:00-15:00

GAC Capacity Development Session on New gTLD Program (2 of 2)

https://sched.co/29QGZ

25-Oct-25

15:30-16:30

SubPro IRT Work Session (3 of 6)

Community Briefing Session: Contention Set Resolution

https://sched.co/29QHL

25-Oct-25

15:30-16:30

GAC Discussion on New gTLDs Program Next Round (1 of 2)

https://sched.co/29QGL

26-Oct-25

09:00-10:00

GAC Discussion on New gTLDs Program Next Round (2 of 2)

https://sched.co/29QJ0

26-Oct-25

15:00-16:00

SubPro IRT Work Session (4 of 6)

Community Briefing Session: Application and Applicant Evaluation

https://sched.co/29QKY

27-Oct-25

15:00-16:00

GNSO: RySG BRG Community Outreach & Next Round for dotBrands

https://sched.co/29QJT

28-Oct-25

10:30-12:00

String Evaluation in the Next Round: 

DNS Stability, String Similarity, and IDN Variant Justification

https://sched.co/29QOD

28-Oct-25

15:00-16:00

GNSO: BC Membership Work Session (1 of 2)

https://sched.co/29QOb

29-Oct-25

09:00-10:00

SubPro IRT Work Session (5 of 6)

Outreach, Engagement, and Communications

https://sched.co/29QN7

29-Oct-25

16:30-17:30

SubPro IRT Work Session (6 of 6)

Base Registry Agreement

https://sched.co/29QOQ

30-Oct-25

15:00-16:00

GNSO: NCSG Wrap-up

https://sched.co/29QP5

 

As Lars mentioned in yesterday’s IRT call, although we had originally scheduled six IRT meetings, with the IRT's work on the AGB now mostly complete, we are repurposing these sessions to brief the community on key Applicant Guidebook topics and allow for questions and answers. As a result, these sessions will not be run as IRT meetings but as open community sessions. In addition to the repurposed IRT sessions and the topics that will be covered during each of those sessions, as noted in the table above, there will also be a session that will cover DNS stability, String Similarity and IDN Variant Justification. This session will follow the same format as the repurposed IRT sessions.

 

Should you be interested in any specific topics that are not covered in the sessions above, please let us know so we can plan these for future meetings and/or webinars.

 

Best,

Elisa