New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP April 2020 Newsletter

CURRENT STATUS

In April, the Working Group focused on reviewing draft final recommendations on a topic-by-topic basis. The meetings in April focused on recommendations for the following topics: 2 April: Applicant Freedom of Expression, Objections 6 April: Objections 9 April: Objections, Base Registry Agreement 14 April: Base Registry Agreement, Application Change Requests 16 April: Limited Challenge/Appeal Mechanism 20 April: Limited Challenge/Appeal Mechanism 23 April: Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Processes, Reserved Names, Different TLD Types 28 April: IDNs, Security and Stability 30 April: Name Collisions

NEXT STEPS

The Working Group will continue to develop draft final recommendations taking into consideration the Working Group’s review of its summary documents and any additional deliberations that have taken place. For the schedule of topics that will be covered in May, please see the Working Group’s wiki .

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?

In June 2014, the GNSO Council established a Discussion Group that was intended to evaluate the experiences of the 2012 round gTLD Program and to identify possible areas for future GNSO policy development. The Discussion Group’s deliverables served as the basis for the GNSO Council request for a Preliminary Issue Report in June of 2015. Following the publication of the Final Issue Report , the GNSO Council adopted the charter for the PDP Working Group, which began its work in February 2016. The Working Group initially concentrated on a set of overarching issues. It later conducted deliberations on additional topics in its charter using five separate Work Tracks: Work Track 1 - Overall Process/Support/Outreach, Work Track 2 - Legal/Regulatory, Work Track 3: String Contention/Objections & Disputes, Work Track 4: Internationalized Domain Names/Technical & Operations, Work Track 5: Geographic Names at the Top Level.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

The Discussion Group identified a number of subjects that may require further analysis and possible formulation of policy language. There are existing policy recommendations adopted by the GNSO Council and ICANN Board, which will remain in place unless the PDP WG determines that changes are needed.

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