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[council] Follow-up: informal batching discussion - summary and conclusions

  • To: Thomas Rickert <thomas.rickert@xxxxxx>
  • Subject: [council] Follow-up: informal batching discussion - summary and conclusions
  • From: Thomas Rickert <rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:01:27 +0200
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"><div>All,</div><div>you may recall I asked for feedback on the summary and 
conclusions I circulated earlier this week. In addition to oral responses 
mainly supporting the general approach I displayed, I have also received two 
written statements, which I have included in this 
e-mail.</div><div><br></div><div>Please note that, as I had mentioned during 
the session on Monday as well as in my last e-mail, this is an effort in 
personal capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Thomas 
Rickert</div><div><br></div><br><div></div></body></html>

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"><div><br><div>Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:</div><br 
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style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 
0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" 
color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div></blockquote><blockquote 
type="cite"><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div 
class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, 
sans-serif; ">Thomas,</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;</span></p><div style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thank you for your summary regarding the 
batching discussions that took place on 25 June in Prague.&nbsp; My colleague 
who participated in the meeting, &nbsp;Jim Stoltzfus, and I have discussed and 
below, please find CSC’s feedback:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 
">&nbsp;</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 
38.25pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New 
Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 
7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Overall 
Timing:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>CSC is in agreement that it is in 
everyone’s interest (ICANN/applicants/providers/Internet users) to facilitate 
the first launch asap because everybody loses if it takes 18 months to launch 
due to the dynamic nature of the industry and Internet itself. Further, CSC 
also agrees that it would be unfair and counterproductive to allow incomplete 
or contested applications to slow down the evaluation and delegation of 
uncontested, quality applications.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 38.25pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal 
normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Digital 
Archery:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, 
sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>CSC recommends 
ICANN abandon Digital Archery as a method of ranking applications within 
geographic regions as it is technically flawed, provides an unfair advantage to 
those who have significant technical and financial resources and is 
&nbsp;reliant on a single action whose outcome is too heavily influenced by 
conditions (system latency, network traffic volume/throttling/routing, etc,) 
that can neither be predicted nor mitigated by diligent 
applicants.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 38.25pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 
'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 
7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 
">Batching:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, 
sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>CSC recommends 
that ICANN conduct initial evaluation of applications in 2 batches and that 
ICANN require applicants to self-select which batch they would like to be 
processed in.&nbsp; &nbsp;Contentious strings in the total application pool 
should be grouped with the application in the earliest batch.</span></div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 38.25pt; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 
-0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span 
style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Order of 
Application Review within Each Batch:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;CSC recommends ICANN order 
applications within a batch for evaluation &nbsp;in the following 
manner:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 74.25pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 
'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 
7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Non-contentious 
strings 1<sup>st</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>in the 
following order of priority -<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;community TLDs, &nbsp;“closed” 
.BRAND TLDs, IDNs, geo TLDs, remaining “open” TLDs/generics</span></div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 74.25pt; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 
-0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; 
"><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Contentious strings 
2<sup>nd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>in the following 
order of priority-</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 
Calibri, sans-serif; "><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>community TLDs, &nbsp;“closed” 
.BRAND TLDs, IDNs, geo TLDs, remaining “open” TLDs/generics</span></div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 38.25pt; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 
-0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span 
style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;<b>Initial 
Evaluation of Applications:</b><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>CSC urges ICANN to streamline 
initial evaluation of applications by utilizing the efficiencies suggested by 
the community, such as single review of answer sets used across multiple 
applications, evaluation by same evaluator of multiple similar applications by 
a single applicant, expedited review of closed .brand TLDs which utilize vetted 
gTLD registries, etc.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 
0in; margin-left: 38.25pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal 
normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Publication of 
Initial Evaluation Results</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 
Calibri, sans-serif; ">: CSC recommends that Initial Evaluation Results/Reports 
be released as evaluators complete evaluations.</span></div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 38.25pt; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: 
-0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span 
style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; 
">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><b><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Sequencing of the 
Delegation of Approved Strings:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>CSC recommends that delegation 
sequencing be based on the date that all pre-requisites for delegation are 
completed (queue based on date of completion).&nbsp; Where there are multiple 
applicants that complete all pre-requisites on the same day and ICANN believes 
it is not possible to delegate all strings in the same day, priority of 
delegation would be based on the following factors: application score, batch 
number, date of contract with ICANN, time-stamp of submission of acceptable 
pre-delegation testing results to ICANN.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; 
font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 
">&nbsp;</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 
0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">We 
welcome the opportunity to continue to be part of the dialogue to craft a 
solution to these issues.&nbsp; Please continue to keep us apprised on any 
further discussions or proposals on this matter.</span></div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 
20.25pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New 
Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; 
">&nbsp;</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 
0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 
">Thanks and best regards,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; 
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Gretchen</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 
">&nbsp;</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 
0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 
">Gretchen M. Olive</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, 
sans-serif; ">Director, Policy &amp; Industry Affairs</span></div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span 
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 
15px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>[snip]</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote
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sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.cscglobal.com"; style="color: blue; 
text-decoration: underline; ">www.cscglobal.com</a></span><span 
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 
125); "></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 
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'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, 
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style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; 
">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, 
sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Thomas Rickert 
[mailto:rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx]<span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><b>Sent:</b><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:09 
AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a 
href="mailto:rickert@xxxxxx";>rickert@xxxxxx</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span 
class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>informal batching discussion - 
summary and conclusions</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; 
">&nbsp;</p><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 
0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">On 
Monday, June 25, an informal group of community members convened to exchange 
thoughts on potential answers to the questions of Batching and Digital 
Archery.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 
0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 
'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 
10pt; ">The group did not neither craft nor agree on a common proposal to 
present to the ICANN Board since the time available did not allow for an 
attempt to do so.&nbsp;A huge number of ideas and suggestions were presented 
and commented on.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 
10pt; ">With this document, I would like to briefly summarize those and more 
ideas that were brought to my attention in follow-up discussions and try to 
structure them. The conclusions I will draw do not represent the group's view, 
but my personal thoughts based on the cumulative input.</span></span><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">The main areas of discussion were</span><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Application 
Evaluation Batching and</span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Delegation 
Batching.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">However, the subjects of Digital Archery as well as 
the impact of the letter by the GAC to the ICANN Board on any proposal were 
also discussed and deemed necessary factors when defining what could be a 
superior solution to the current approach.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The group also felt that 
more data was needed to come up with a sound proposal in order to base 
calculations on facts rather than guesses. Apart from questions on parameters 
of the contracts with the firms that have been tasked to carry out the 
evaluation, the question of the maximum delegation rate per day or week was of 
interest to anticipate potential roll-out scenarios in the delegation phase. 
Kurt Pritz responded to this both in the informal meeting as well as during the 
public session. In summary, there does not seem to be a clear answer with 
unambiguous figures rather than the fact that the 1000 TLDs somewhat need to be 
distributed over the year i.e is a rate per year.</span><span style="font-size: 
8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">For the evaluation phase, 
there seemed to be a lot of support and little or no opposition to processing 
all applications in a single batch. That should be done as quickly as possible. 
While Kurt Pritz emphasized that quality is of highest priority and that it is 
not easy to add more evaluators since they have been trained for months, ICANN 
should try to deploy more resources. There is partially identical information 
in applications using the same Registry Service Provider and those of portfolio 
applicants. For these (and I am not suggesting that these should be processed 
in batches), only the the differences of the applications have to be 
identified, i.e. the evaluator would process one in total and then be able to 
concentrate on the variations of the applications and the impact of those on 
the assessment of the application. By doing so, it should be possible to 
expedite the evaluation process significantly. I understand that there are 
other proposals currently being drafted which focus exclusively on incasing 
process efficiency.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">There did not seem to be 
an unanimous view on whether all results of initial evaluation should be 
published at the same time or whether they should be published as their 
evaluation is completed. A proposal was made to publish the results for 
individual applications as the initial evaluation is completed and then queue 
them for delegation as they are ready to go until the delegation rate limit of 
1000 TLDs per year is reached.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Numerous proposals have 
been made to establish a sequence of processing and then delegating 
TLDs.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">These can roughly be grouped into the following 
categories:</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Clustering</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Several participants 
argued for different treatment for different types of applications, such as 
IDNs, geoTLDs, Community TLDs, grouping by competitors (applicants should tell 
who should not be delegated earlier than their application), grouping not only 
by contention sets, but also by synonyms (i.e. .music should be grouped with 
.hiphop).</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Financial&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 
8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Proposals were made to 
provide financial incentives to those who agree to be processed later or to 
give each applicant one point and that such points can be traded.</span><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; 
">- Choice</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">Applicants should get the opportunity to opt-out and 
portfolio applicants could volunteer to prioritize their own 
applications.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Natural 
sequencing</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">Several attendees pointed to the fact that there will 
be a natural sequencing because of contention sets, objections, extended 
evaluations, GAC Advice, differences of time required for contract negotiation 
and execution.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">In addition to that, 
withdrawals or rejections of applications will further reduce the number of 
TLDs that need to be delegated.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Another idea was to use 
the quality of the applications as a basis for sequencing them, eg. by scoring 
them or taking into account the requirement to get back to the applicant for 
additional information.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Conclusions:</span><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; 
">It seems like creating groups of applications, such as IDNs, geoTLDs etc., is 
not an approach that gets broad community support. No matter how legitimate the 
reasons brought forward may be to either prioritize those or at least ensure 
that they are not processed at the end of the queue, it seems unrealistic to 
serve all these groups.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Thus, it will be difficult 
to establish a new methodology for clustering applications as the basis for 
creating an order for processing and delegating them.</span><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; 
">A combination of various elements described above could be an eligible 
solution. These elements could be:</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Resources: ICANN should 
hire more resources to provide for an expedient evaluation taking into account 
the suggestions above.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Choice: Applicants 
should say whether the earliest possible delegation is of high, medium or low 
priority for them. The applications will be processed in that 
order.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">- Complexity: In terms of complexity, a distinction 
needs to be made between external and internal factors.&nbsp;</span><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; 
">Internal factors: Priority is given to applications with, i.e. where no 
additional information has to be requested and where no extended evaluation is 
required. This addresses the widely welcome idea that quality should be a 
factor.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "></span></div></div><div><p 
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; 
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 
serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div 
style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 
0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
style="font-size: 10pt; ">External factors: Where contentions, objections or 
GAC advice are given, the applications are processed in the order these issues 
are resolved.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The results of the initial 
evaluation of applications where no clarifying information had to be provided 
by the applicant was required, should be published at the same time. For the 
remaining applications, the results should be published whenever the evaluation 
is completed.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The applications will then 
be processed whenever the respective next stage is reached. There will be a 
natural sequencing because of different time needed for contract negotiations 
and execution.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; 
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">It should also be noted 
that the delegation process is not under ICANN's exclusive control, which will 
provide for additional sequencing.</span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 
0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 
margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times 
New Roman', serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 
10pt; ">Again, this document and the conclusion is an attempt to summarize and 
amalgamate proposals and feedback into what might be a possible approach. It is 
an effort in personal capacity which does not necessarily represent the view of 
the participants.&nbsp;</span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" 
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12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span 
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Please circulate to 
those who are interested. I will collect feedback and make that available later 
this week.</span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
"></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; 
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font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 
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