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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Dear WG Members,</span><o:p></o:p></a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Please see below the action items and discussion notes captured by staff from the meeting on 05 March 2018. <i>These high-level notes are designed to help PDP WG members navigate through the content of the call and are not meant as a substitute for the transcript or recording</i>. The MP3, transcript, and chat room notes will be provided separately.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>For reference see also the attached slides. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Julie</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Actions/Discussion Notes</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Actions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1. Begin the planning for the PDP WG meetings at ICANN62 in Panama City, and add this topic to the slides for the meeting with the GNSO Council on 11 March.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2. Take the list of topics in the Initial Report structure and send it to the WG to review in case we missed any topics (see attached).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Notes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1. SOI Updates: No updates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2) Work Track updates:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Work Track 1: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Going through all of the topics and trying to make sure we reflected feedback from the calls and the CC2 responses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Getting that text into the Initial Report.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Call scheduled for 06 March is TBD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Work Track 3:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Finished meetings and going through topics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Making sure we've captured all of the input.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Putting the language into the Initial Report.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Work Track 4:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Looked at preparing text for the Initial Report.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Discussed Registry Testing System.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Preparing topics for Puerto Rico.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Name Collisions also will be a topic -- ICANN Board resolution on a longer term study. See: Draft Project Plan for Name Collision Analysis: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ncap-project-plan-2018-03-02-en<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Work Track 5:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Going through the different categories of Geographic names in the Applicant Guidebook. Identifying pros and cons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Looking at how we may want to consider doing the same thing in future or changing the AGB. Addressing variations between the initial policy work and the final AGB content.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Look at categories that were not in the AGB.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Working Session dedicated to WT5 in San Juan on 14 March 0830.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2) Review of suggested Initial Report structure/planning for ICANN61<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 2: Timeline -- Initial Report<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 3: Timeline<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Complete the Final Report by the end of 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- For the Initial Report we are not doing consensus calls. We are putting options out for public comment. Not the time to take a consensus call on one or more of the recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Goal is to get out the Draft Initial Report out by the end of March and then have the WG review it in April.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Thinking of changing the meeting schedule to meet every week to help with the review of the Initial Report, starting Monday, 26 March.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- In the planning for Panama we need to understand if the PDP WG will need a good chunk of the time at ICANN62.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 4: Work Track 1-4 and overarching issues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 5: Overarching Issues and Work Track Topics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Options and open questions have not gone through a consensus call.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 6: Status Update Overview -- Overarching Issues<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Recommendations on 4 topics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Options/questions on 3 topics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Community Engagement -- a lot of overlap with predictability or where we have tried to get feedback on this PDP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 7: Status Update Drill-Down -- Overarching Issues<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Slide 8: Status Update Overview -- Work Track 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Structure of the Initial Report (chronological order):<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Overarching issues<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Foundational issues<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Pre-launch activities<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Application submission<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Application processing<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Application evaluation/criteria<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Dispute proceedings<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- String contention resolution<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Pre-delegation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Contracting<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Post-delegation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>3) AOB: ICANN FY19 Budget:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- Only a short mention of the Subsequent Procedures PDP, but statement that there are no funds allocated for implementing any GNSO policy on subsequent procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- FY19 goes from 01 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- If the Board waits until FY20 to allocate funds some think this could delay the launch of the next round.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- No time for this WG to file formal comments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- PDP WG Co-Chairs may file individual comments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>From the chat: Maxim Alzoba (FAITID): QUESTION: do we, as PDP WG need to file a comment to FY19 on the absence of funds for the next round?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></body></html>