<div class="__aliyun_email_body_block"><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Dear Councilors,</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><br ></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">You may recall that the Council discussed this topic during the wrap-up session in Marrakesh and the action item was for a small team (Carlos, Michele and myself) to take a look at the 5 Recommendations that were passed through to GNSO (see the message below from <span  style="caret-color:#000000;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:.0px;text-transform:none;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none;float:none;font-size:14.0px;font-family:tahoma;display:inline;">Larisa <span  class="spellcheck_typo">Gurnick</span></span> forwarded by Mary to Council).</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><br ></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><span  style="border:.0px;caret-color:#000000;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:.0px;text-transform:none;text-decoration:none;font-size:15.0px;margin:.0px;padding:.0px;outline:.0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial;">In </span><span  style="margin:.0px;padding:.0px;border:.0px;outline:.0px;caret-color:#000000;color:#000000;font-size:14.0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:.0px;text-transform:none;text-decoration:none;font-family:tahoma;">addition, a number of Recommendations were passed through to gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group and/or Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) PDP Working Group.  In order t<span  style="margin:.0px;padding:.0px;outline:.0px;caret-color:#000000;color:#000000;font-family:tahoma;font-size:14.0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:.0px;text-transform:none;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline;">o have a better picture of where all the Recommendations passed to the GNSO and its <span  class="spellcheck_typo">PDPs</span> stand, Keith is planning to write to the leadership of the Working Groups seeking their feedback.</span></span></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="border:.0px;margin:.0px;padding:.0px;outline:.0px;caret-color:#000000;color:#000000;font-family:tahoma;font-size:14.0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:.0px;text-transform:none;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline;"><br ></span></div><div  style="clear:both;">In the meantime, I attach an initial draft with the small <span  class="spellcheck_typo">team's</span> proposed GNSO Council response to those 5 Recommendations passed through directly to the GNSO for your review and consideration. It is likely to be included in our August Council meeting agenda so please take some time to consider the proposed responses before the meeting. All feedback/comments/suggested edits are welcome!</div><div  style="clear:both;"><br ></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"><span  style="font-size:14.0px;font-family:tahoma;">Kind regards,</span></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"><span  style="font-size:14.0px;font-family:tahoma;"><br ></span></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"><span  style="font-size:14.0px;font-family:tahoma;">Pam</span></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><br ></span></div><blockquote  style="margin-right:0;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Sender:Mary <span  class="spellcheck_typo">Wong</span> <mary.wong@icann.org></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Sent At:2019 Jun. 10 (Mon.) 16:43</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Recipient:council@gnso.icann.org <council@gnso.icann.org></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Subject:[council] Message regarding CCT-RT recommendations</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><br ></span></div><style >!--  @font-face{font-family:Cambria Math;panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}{font-family:DengXian;panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;}{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}{font-family:\@DengXian;panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{margin:.0in;margin-bottom:.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink{mso-style-priority:99;color:#0563c1;text-decoration:underline;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed{mso-style-priority:99;color:#954f72;text-decoration:underline;}span.EmailStyle17{mso-style-type:personal-compose;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext;}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;}@page WordSection1{size:8.5in 11.0in;margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}{mso-list-id:251941424;mso-list-template-ids:-2049039124;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-list-id:1637687725;mso-list-template-ids:1647475436;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:●;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:○;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:■;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:●;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:○;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:■;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:●;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:○;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-number-position:left;text-indent:-.2in;mso-text-animation:none;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none;text-decoration:none;text-line-through:none;}{mso-level-number-format:bullet;mso-level-text:■;mso-level-tab-stop:none;mso-level-num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 Protection & Consumer Trust Review <span  class="spellcheck_typo">Team’s</span> (CCT-RT) final recommendations included several that were directed at the GNSO Council. This notification should provide you with additional information and context for the ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">Board’s</span> action in respect of those

 recommendations. </span></p><div  style="border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-width:2.0px;border-bottom-color:windowtext;padding:.0px .0in 1.0pt;"><p  class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:.0in;"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p></div><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><b ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Dear Members of the GNSO Council,</span></b></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">The purpose of this note is to highlight the Board resolution passed on 1 March 2019 - see

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-03-01-en" target="_blank">

https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-03-01-en</a> - that calls for a set of Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) Final Recommendations to be passed through to community groups. As articulated in the

 Board resolution, “recognizing that the Board has the obligation and responsibility to balance the work of ICANN in order to preserve the ability for ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">org</span> to serve its Mission and the public interest, the Board decided on three categories of action”:</span></p><ul  style="margin-top:.0in;"><li  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Accepting recommendations, subject to costing and implementation considerations;</span></li><li  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Placing recommendations (in whole or in part) in "Pending" status, directing ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">org</span> to perform specific actions to enable the Board to take further actions;</span></li><li  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Passing recommendations (in whole or in part) to community groups the CCT-RT identified for their consideration. The Board noted fourteen such recommendations (9,

 10, 12, 16, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35). </span></li></ul><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">We invite you to refer to pages 1-4 of the scorecard

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-cct-recs-scorecard-01mar19-en.pdf" target="_blank">

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">cct-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">recs-scorecard-01mar19-en.<span  class="spellcheck_typo">pdf</a> which compile pass-through recommendations, including the groups they are addressed to.

<p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> <p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Accordingly, ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">org wishes to notify you of the recommendations the ICANN Board resolved to pass through to you, in whole or in part, for your consideration:<p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> <ul  style="margin-top:.0in;"><li  class="MsoNormal"><b ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Recommendation 10<span  style="font-size:15.0px;">.

</span></li><li  class="MsoNormal"><b ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Recommendation 16 (in part)</span></b><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> Note: this recommendation was also passed through to the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures

 PDP WG, Registries Stakeholder Group, Registrar Stakeholder Group, Generic Names Supporting Organization, Second Security, Stability & Resiliency of DNS Review Team as suggested by the CCT-RT. In the scorecard, the Board noted that “it is not accepting the

policy directives that may be inherent here but rather, passes on such elements of the recommendation to the relevant community groups to consider”.</li><li  class="MsoNormal"><b ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Recommendation 27<span  style="font-size:15.0px;">.

</li><li  class="MsoNormal"><b ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Recommendation 28<span  style="font-size:15.0px;">.

</span></li><li  class="MsoNormal"><b ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Recommendation 29</span></b><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">. Note: this recommendation was also passed through to the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures

 PDP WG, as suggested by the CCT-RT. To inform work relating to recommendations 29 and 30, the ICANN Board suggested that the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG could take on, “should they choose to do so, defining the term ‘Global South’ or agreeing on

 another term to describe <span  class="spellcheck_typo">underserved</span> or underrepresented regions or stakeholders in coordination with ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">org</span>”<i >.</i></span></li></ul><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">We would like to highlight the following language of the Board resolution: “in passing these recommendations through, the Board is neither accepting, nor rejecting the recommendations. […] Passing

 recommendations through to community groups is not a directive that the groups identified should formally address any of the issues within those recommendations. It is within the purview of each group to identify whether work will be taken on and the topics

 that the group will address”<i >.</i></span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">As indicated in the resolution, the Board encourages community groups to be “mindful of any interdependencies with ongoing work and discussions”. Additionally,<i ></i>the Board suggests “to the referenced community groups that the CCT-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">RT's</span> proposed priority levels be taken into account as the groups decide whether, how and when to address the CCT-RT recommendations that are being passed through […]”<i >.</i></span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Additionally, we would like to flag the Board suggestion that for transparency purposes, “it would be helpful to have records or reporting made available to the ICANN community on how the community

 group considered the items coming out of the CCT-RT. The Board encourages any level of reporting that the groups are able to provide as the ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">org</span> and Board track action on the CCT-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">RT's</span> recommendations”. Please consider providing updates on your progress

 in addressing (as appropriate) these recommendations, to be included with ICANN <span  class="spellcheck_typo">org’s</span> reporting.</span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><b ><u ><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Background</span></u></b></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">The Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) released its Final Report on 8 September 2018 – see

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cct-final-08sep18-en.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cct-final-08sep18-en.<span  class="spellcheck_typo">pdf</span></a>. The CCT-RT Final Report contains 35 recommendations and is the culmination of nearly three years of work,

 reviewing how the expansion of top-level domain names impacted competition, consumer trust and choice. For more information on the CCT Review and Specific Reviews, please read

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en#article4.6" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en#article4.6</a>.</span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">  </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">The ICANN Board took action on each of the 35 recommendations produced by the CCT-RT - see

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-03-01-en" target="_blank">

https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-03-01-en</a> - on 1 March 2019 and was informed by public comment input received on the Final report (see

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cct-final-recs-2018-10-08-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/<span  class="spellcheck_typo">cct</span>-final-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">recs</span>-2018-10-08-en</a>).</span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">The <span  class="spellcheck_typo">Board’s</span> decisions on each recommendation is documented in the scorecard published at

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-cct-recs-scorecard-01mar19-en.pdf" target="_blank">

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">cct</span>-<span  class="spellcheck_typo">recs</span>-scorecard-01mar19-en.<span  class="spellcheck_typo">pdf</span></a>. A blog post on the Board action can be found at

<a  href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/board-action-on-competition-consumer-trust-and-consumer-choice-review" target="_blank">

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/board-action-on-competition-consumer-trust-and-consumer-choice-review</a> for more context.</span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">We thank you for your collaboration in considering the CCT-RT output. Please let us know whether you have any questions.</span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Thank you. </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Best regards<b >.</b></span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Larisa <span  class="spellcheck_typo">Gurnick</span></span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;">Vice-President, Multi-stakeholder Strategy & Strategic Initiatives, ICANN</span></p><p  class="MsoNormal"><span  style="font-size:15.0px;"> </span></p></div></blockquote><div ><br ></div></div>