<div dir="ltr">Dear Councillors, <div>please find the motion (the same text is attached in DOCX) </div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN">Motion
to initiate the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized
Domain Names and adoption of the EPDP on IDNs Charter </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">Submitted by: Maxim Alzoba</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">Seconded by: TBD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">Whereas, </span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 14 March
2019, the ICANN Board approved a <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/idn-variant-tld-implementation-2018-07-26-en">set of recommendations</a> developed by ICANN
org on how to allocate Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) variant TLD
labels. The ICANN Board requested that the GNSO and ccNSO take into
account those IDN variant TLD recommendations while developing their
respective policies to define and manage IDN variant TLDs for the current
TLDs and future TLD applications, while keeping each other informed of the
progress in developing the relevant details of their policies and
procedures to ensure a consistent solution for IDN variant gTLDs and IDN
variant ccTLDs. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 26 June
2019, the GNSO Council established a <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/IDNST">Scoping
Team</a> to develop recommendations for the GNSO Council’s
consideration on how to address the IDN variant TLD recommendations, as
well as issues in the <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-10-en">Final Proposed Draft version 4.0 of
Internationalized Domain Name ("IDN") Implementation Guidelines</a>
(“IDN Guidelines v. 4.0”), for which the ICANN Board had <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-drazek-04jun19-en.pdf">agreed</a> to the GNSO Council <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/drazek-to-chalaby-30apr19-en.pdf">request</a> to defer its adoption. The
Scoping Team met between 15 August 2019 and 12 December 2019. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 23
January 2020, the GNSO Council discussed the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/idn-scoping-team-final-report-17jan20-en.pdf">Final Report</a> from the Scoping Team, which
suggested tackling IDN related issues in two tracks: Operational Track and
Policy Track. The Policy Track would be tasked to deliberate on: i) the <u>definition</u>
and <u>management</u> of IDN variant TLDs, and ii) the change process of
the IDN Guidelines and any policy issues related to the IDN Guidelines v.
4.0 identified by the Operational Track Team (consisted of members in the
GNSO Contracted Parties House) and agreed upon by the IDN Guidelines
Working Group.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 26
January 2020, the ICANN Board approved the <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rz-lgr-technical-utilization-recs-07oct19-en.pdf">Recommendations for the Technical Utilization of the
RZ-LGR</a> on how to employ the <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/root-zone-lgr-2015-06-21-en">RZ-LGR</a> to determine valid IDN TLDs and
their variant labels. The ICANN Board requested that the GNSO and ccNSO
take into account those RZ-LGR Technical Utilization recommendations while
developing their respective policies to define and manage IDN variant TLDs
for the current TLDs and future TLD applications.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 21
October 2020, the GNSO Council agreed to establish a <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/CYAmCQ">Drafting
Team</a> to develop both a draft charter and an Initiation Request
for an EPDP on IDNs. The GNSO Council agreed with the Scoping Team’s suggestion
that an Issue Report is likely not needed in order to initiate the Policy
Track work, and an EPDP is the desired approach. The Drafting Team met
between 8 December 2020 and 4 May 2021. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 10 May
2021, the Drafting Team submitted the draft EPDP charter and the
Initiation Request for the GNSO Council’s consideration. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">On 20 May
2021, the Drafting Team Chair provided a briefing to the GNSO Council on
the content of the draft charter prior to the Council vote to initiate the
EPDP and adopt the charter. </span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">RESOLVED,</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">The GNSO
Council hereby approves the <a>Initiation Request</a><a class="gmail-msocomanchor" id="gmail-_anchor_1" href="#_msocom_1" name="_msoanchor_1">[1]</a> for the EPDP on IDNs
and as such initiates the EPDP. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">The GNSO
Council approves the <a>Charter </a><a class="gmail-msocomanchor" id="gmail-_anchor_2" href="#_msocom_2" name="_msoanchor_2">[2]</a> of the EPDP on IDNs. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">The GNSO
Council directs staff to: </span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">(a) communicate the
results of this motion to the GNSO SG/Cs as well as ICANN SO/ACs and invite
them to identify Members for the working group following the working group
composition described in the Charter; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">(b) communicate the
results of this motion to the ICANN Org GDS Team and invite them to identify at
least one (1) staff liaison for the working group; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">(c) launch a call
for expressions of interest seeking interested candidates to Chair the EPDP on
IDNs; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN">(d) solicit
candidates for the GNSO Council liaison to the EPDP on IDNs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="color:black">link to be inserted after document is published on
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</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>P.s: please be aware that the staff will circulate the Charter and EPDP Initiation Request on the Council list shortly today.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:12.8px"><br>Sincerely Yours,<br><br>Maxim Alzoba<br>Special projects manager,<br>International Relations Department,<br>FAITID<br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:12.8px">Current UTC offset: +3.00 (Moscow)</div></div></div></div></div>