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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear Work Track members,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Please find below the action items and discussion notes from today’s call. <i>These high-level notes are designed to help Work Track members navigate through the content of the call and are not a substitute for the recording.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Please see the link to the referenced document at: </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dp4Jl8eVrdU75Nvmh9A999Fu0wUYOR5am80tQDGNybk/edit#"><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dp4Jl8eVrdU75Nvmh9A999Fu0wUYOR5am80tQDGNybk/edit#</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Julie<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Notes and Action Items: New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG - Track 2 – 29 March 2017</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Global Public Interest</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> -- Review possible recommendations (last two pages in the Google Doc):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>“Mandatory PICs: The WT is considering a recommendation to grandfather the current mandatory PICS [Include Citation as to which ones are mandatory]. In addition, such mandatory PICS should be revisited to reflect the ongoing discussions between the GAC Public Safety Working Group and Registries as appropriate.”</span></i><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Why not grandfather the mandatory PICs? Why revisit them?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Include a short sentence describing why the mandatory pics were added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='color:black'>“Voluntary PICs: The Work Track recommends continuing the concept of Voluntary Public Interest Commitments and asking Applicants to state any voluntary PICs in its application. In addition, the Working Group supports the ability of Applicants to commit to additional PICs in response to public comments, GAC Early Warnings and/ or GAC Advice. Except under limited circumstances, as set out in the Applicant Guidebook, such PICS may result in changing the nature of the application.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'>-- If a PIC is being offered and if cannot be withdrawn, then it does effectively become part of the application.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>“At the time a Voluntary PIC is made, the Applicant must set forth whether such PIC is limited in time, duration and/or scope such that the PIC can adequately be reviewed by ICANN, an existing Objector (if applicable) and/or the GAC (if the voluntary PIC was in response to a GAC Early Warning or GAC Advice).”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-- When you specify a PIC you must specify that you are committing to something. In the last round only one group of PICs was explicitly listed as ones where you reserved the right to change them. But it wasn’t clear if a PIC was changeable at some point in the future. If a PIC is suggested in response to GAC advice then we don’t want it to be changed unilaterally. So this is an important clause and it has to stay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-- If a PIC is part of the application it is part of the reason the application was approved. It is possible that there would be a big switch for voluntary PICs that would put stakeholder minds at ease. A commitment that one could withdraw at discretion is hardly a commitment at all. This is ripe for gamesmanship if we don’t do anything about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-- ICANN has a strong aversion to not tinker with people’s business plans – such as in the RSEP procedure. The RSEP could be a marvelous vehicle for withdrawing to a PIC. If there is a process for changing a PIC later it has to have a larger affect than just the security and stability of the Internet. Support keeping this provision and maybe make it stronger.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-- Should there be a process to change PICs or have them reviewed? Could contemplate it. It would have to be a resilient process. Someone might even want to add a PIC. There is also the aspect of contract negotiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>ACTION ITEM: ADD: “The Work Track understands that there may need to be a process to change PICs.”</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>“To the extent that a Voluntary PIC is accepted, such must be reflected in the Applicant’s Registry Agreement. Changes to that PIC may only be made after being subject to comment by the ICANN community. To the extent that the PIC was made in response to an Objection, GAC Early Warning or GAC Advice, any proposed material changes to that PIC must take into account comments made by the applicable Objector and/or the applicable GAC member(s) that issued the Early Warning, or in the case of GAC Advice, the GAC itself.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>[No comments]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>“Although the Work Track has discussed highly sensitive strings and strings corresponding to highly regulated industries, the Work Track has not agreed upon any additional conditions to impose on Applicants other than those already imposed on applicable Registries during the 2012 round.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-- This came out of the comments raised in CC2 – such comparison of strings. New gTLDs that are similar to previous verified TLD should have similar conditions. The Work Track discussed this but didn’t agree on additional conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>ACTION ITEM: ADD/MOVE: Need to add something asking for guidance. “The Work Track solicits input on how we recognize such a TLD and then identify what types of conditions we should put on them.” Move this bullet to the questions where we are soliciting input and add context.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>“The Work Track acknowledges the work of the CCT-RT on the issue of sensitive strings and will engage in future discussions to provide feedback on Recommendation 14 (cite the recommendation).”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>ACTION ITEM: MOVE: This last bullet might make sense as an element of deliberations and/or an outside input to the WG.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>