[council] PEDNR and IRTP-B Reports

[Tim Ruiz]

Sorry to be past the deadline for these. I was on holiday until today,
and in fact did not make the calls for either PEDNR or IRTP-B that were
scheduled for today. The updates below exclude events on today's calls:


PEDNR

Following the ICANN meeting in Seoul, ICANN Staff continued to gather
information for the registrar survey which is intended to help inform
the deliberations of the Working Group. The survey reviews current
registrar practices regarding domain name expiration, renewal, and
post-expiration recovery. The final results have now been posted at
https://st.icann.org/post-expiration-dn-recovery-wg/ and were on the
agenda to be discussed by the group on today's call.

Following the finalization of the registrar survey, the Working Group
will need to review the results in further detail to determine how these
may potentially influence its response to the charter questions.


IRTP-B

The IRTP Part B Working Group held an open Working Group meeting in
Seoul at which it reviewed the Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy. Their
goal was to determine whether they could devise possible modifications
in response to Question A in their charter, “whether a process for
urgent return/resolution of a domain name should be developed.”

The Working Group also solicited public comment on the issues the group
addresses. The comment period closed in October, and the group has
reviewed the comments received (see
http://forum.icann.org/lists/irtp-b/).

The Working Group will now turn its attention to the Constituency /
Stakeholder Group Statements it has received.


Tim