RE: [council] Resolutions from the Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee held in Los Angeles on 5 Feb 2014

["Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I'd like to draw you attention to page 3 notably the intended actions of the 
NGPC under (1) and (2) below:

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To note: During the Buenos Aires meeting, the GNSO unanimously approved the 
recommendations in the Final Report of the IGO/INGO Protection PDP Working 
Group. The Final Report recommended reserving IGO names but not their acronyms. 
It did allow for the inclusion of acronyms in the TMCH in future rounds if they 
were included in the TMCH during the current round. It also requested an issue 
report on possible revisions to the UDRP and URS policies that would allow IGOs 
to take advantage of these processes. 

Subject to receiving direction from the Board, the NGPC will: 
(1) consider the policy recommendations from the GNSO as the NGPC continues to 
actively develop an approach to respond to the GAC advice on protections for 
IGOs, and 
(2) develop a comprehensive proposal to address the GAC advice and the GNSO 
policy recommendations for consideration by the Board at a subsequent meeting.
--

Please let me know if there is anything else you believe we should or could do 
here.

Thanks,


Jonathan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 09 February 2014 00:20
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [council] Resolutions from the Meeting of the New gTLD Program 
Committee held in Los Angeles on 5 Feb 2014

From:  
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-05feb14-en.htm


Approved Resolutions | Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee


5 February 2014


1.  Main Agenda 

        a.  Remaining Items from Beijing, Durban and Buenos Aires GAC Advice: 
Updates and Actions Rationale for Resolution 2014.02.05.NG01

        b.  Discussion of Report on String Confusion Expert Determinations 
Rationale for Resolution 2014.02.05.NG02

        c.  Staff Update on Reassignment of Registry Agreements

        d.  Staff Update on Name Collision Framework



1.  Main Agenda:

        a.  Remaining Items from Beijing, Durban and Buenos Aires GAC Advice: 
Updates and Actions

Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 46 meeting in Beijing and issued a 
Communiqué on 11 April 2013 ("Beijing Communiqué").

Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 47 meeting in Durban and issued a 
Communiqué on 18 July 2013 ("Durban Communiqué").

Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 48 meeting in Buenos Aires and issued a 
Communiqué on 20 November 2013 ("Buenos Aires Communiqué").

Whereas, the NGPC adopted scorecards to respond to certain items of the GAC's 
advice in the Beijing Communiqué and the Durban Communiqué, which were adopted 
on 4 June 2013, 10 September 2013, and 28 September 2013.

Whereas, the NGPC has developed another iteration of the scorecard to respond 
to certain remaining items of GAC advice in the Beijing Communiqué and the 
Durban Communiqué, and new advice in the Buenos Aires Communiqué.

Whereas, the NGPC is undertaking this action pursuant to the authority granted 
to it by the Board on 10 April 2012, to exercise the ICANN Board's authority 
for any and all issues that may arise relating to the New gTLD Program.

Resolved (2014.02.05.NG01), the NGPC adopts the "GAC Advice (Beijing, Durban, 
Buenos Aires): Actions and Updates" (5 February 2014), attached as Annex 1 
(http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-annex-1-05feb14-en.pdf)
  to this Resolution, in response to open items of Beijing, Durban and Buenos 
Aires GAC advice as presented in the scorecard.



        b.  Discussion of Report on String Confusion Expert Determinations

Whereas, on 10 October 2013 the Board Governance Committee (BGC) requested 
staff to draft a report for the NGPC on String Confusion Objections "setting 
out options for dealing with the situation raised within this Request, namely 
the differing outcomes of the String Confusion Objection Dispute Resolution 
process in similar disputes involving Amazon 's Applied-for String and TLDH's 
Applied-for String."

Whereas, the NGPC is considering potential paths forward to address the 
perceived inconsistent Expert Determinations from the New gTLD Program String 
Confusion Objections process, including implementing a review mechanism. The 
review will be limited to the String Confusion Objection Expert Determinations 
for .CAR/.CARS and .CAM/.COM.

Whereas, the proposed review mechanism, if implemented, would constitute a 
change to the current String Confusion Objection process in the New gTLD 
Applicant Guidebook.

Whereas, the NGPC is undertaking this action pursuant to the authority granted 
to it by the Board on 10 April 2012, to exercise the ICANN Board's authority 
for any and all issues that may arise relating to the New gTLD Program.

Resolved (2014.02.05.NG02), the NGPC directs the President and CEO, or his 
designee, to publish for public comment the proposed review mechanism for 
addressing perceived inconsistent Expert Determinations from the New gTLD 
Program String Confusion Objections process.



        c.   Staff Update on Reassignment of Registry Agreements

Item not considered.


        d.    Staff Update on Name Collision Framework

Item not considered.


Published on 7 February 2014