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July 2020 Newsletter

CURRENT STATUS

The Working Group has finalized draft final recommendations on most of the topics that will be included in the draft Final Report. In July, the Working Group focused on discussing and refining recommendations for several remaining topics:

2 July: Review of feedback from Working Group members on the Work Track 5 Final Report on the topic of geographic names at the top level. Discussion of Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets and Predictability Framework.
6 July: Review of feedback on revised sections in “package” 6 (see the wiki for additional information about the feedback received).
9 July: Predictability Framework.
14 July: Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets.
16 July: Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets.
20 July: Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets.
23 July: Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets and Predictability Framework.
27 July: Predictability Framework, Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets, and Closed Generics.
30 July: Review of feedback on revised sections in “package” 7 and final comments on revised sections in “package” 6 (see the wiki for additional information about the feedback received). Additional discussion on Auctions/Private Resolution of Contention Sets.

NEXT STEPS

The Working Group will finalize draft final recommendations and open a public comment period on the draft Final Report. For the latest version of the Working Group’s work plan, 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.

More Information

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GNSO Secretariat: gnso-secs@icann.org .

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