[council] NGPC Progress on GAC Advice

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-10may13-en.htm
NGPC Progress on GAC Advice
10 May 2013

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) wishes to share with the 
ICANN community its progress in consideration of the GAC advice and what steps 
are still to be taken. The NGPC met on 8 May to consider a Plan for responding 
to the Governmental Advisory Committee's advice on New gTLDs, transmitted to 
the Board through its 11 April Beijing Communiqué. The Plan is in two parts: 
Part 1 shown below consists of actions for soliciting input from Applicants and 
from the Community.


Item

Resp.

Start Date

Compl. Date

Status

1

Publish GAC Communiqué and notify applicants of 21-day GAC Advice Response 
Period

Staff



18 April

Complete

2

Applicants 21-day response period to GAC Advice

Applicants

19 April

10 May

In progress

3

Publish GAC Communiqué to solicit input on how the New gTLD Board Committee 
should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories 
of New gTLD strings

Staff



23 April

Complete

4

Public comment period on how Board should address GAC Advice re: Safeguards

Public

23 April

Comment:
May 14
Reply:
4 June

In Progress

5

Collect and summarize applicant responses to GAC Advice

Staff

11 May

31 May

Not Started

6

Summarize and analyze public comments on how Board should address GAC Advice 
re: Safeguards

Staff

5 June

12 June

Not Started

7

Review and consider Applicant responses to GAC Advice and Public Comments on 
how Board should respond to GAC Advice re: Safeguards

New gTLD Program Committee

13 June

20 June

Not Started



Part 2 consists of actions for responding to each advice given by the GAC. In 
so doing, the NGPC is developing a GAC scorecard similar to the one used during 
the GAC and the Board meetings in Brussels on 28 February and 1 March 2011.

Each GAC scorecard item will be noted with a "1A", "1B", or "2":

 *   "1A" indicates that the NGPC's proposed position is consistent with GAC 
advice as described in the Scorecard.
 *   "1B" indicates that the NGPC's proposed position is consistent with GAC 
advice as described in the Scorecard in principle, with some revisions to be 
made.
 *   "2" indicates that the NGPC's current position is not consistent with GAC 
advice as described in the Scorecard, and further discussion with the GAC is 
required following relevant procedures in the ICANN Bylaws.

Part 2 of the Plan is not yet finalized and, with respect to some of the 
advice, cannot be finalized until after the review of the Public Comments due 
to be completed on 20 June.

The NGPC will next meet in Amsterdam on 18 May and will provide a further 
update following that meeting.

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org