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<P style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: arial; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px"><A
href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-19-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-19-en</A></P>
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<H2 style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; CLEAR: left">GNSO Policy & Implementation
Working Group Publishes Initial Recommendations Report for Public Comment</H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 15px 0px 0px">19 January 2015</P>
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<TD class=light><STRONG>Forum Announcement:</STRONG></TD>
<TD>Comment Period Opens on</TD>
<TD class=light><STRONG>Date:</STRONG></TD>
<TD>19 January 2015</TD></TR>
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<TD class=light><STRONG>Categories/Tags:</STRONG></TD>
<TD colSpan=3>Policy Processes</TD></TR>
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<TD class=light><STRONG>Purpose (Brief):</STRONG></TD>
<TD colSpan=3>Mainly as a result of discussions stemming from
implementation related issues of the new generic Top-Level Doman (gTLD)
program, there has been an increased focus on which topics call for policy
and which call for implementation work, including which processes should
be used, at what time and how issues which are the subject of diverging
opinions during the implementation process should be acted upon. Following
several discussions, including the publication of a staff discussion paper
and a community session during the ICANN meeting in Beijing in April 2013,
the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council decided in July
2013 to form a Working Group (WG) which was tasked to provide the GNSO
Council with a set of recommendations on a number of questions that
specifically relate to policy and implementation in a GNSO context. The WG
has now published its <A
href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/policy-implementation/pi-wg-initial-recommendations-19jan15-en.pdf">Initial
Recommendations Report</A> [PDF, 1.46 MB] for community input which can be
provided either through input received via this public comment forum or
via the following survey: <A
href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PI-InitialReport">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PI-InitialReport</A></TD></TR>
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<TD class=light><STRONG>Public Comment Box Link:</STRONG></TD>
<TD colSpan=3><A
href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en</A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>
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