<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear all,<div><br><div>I am OK with revised draft.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br><div>
<div>Anil Jain</div><div>anil@nixi.in</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 14-Sep-2023, at 7:01 PM, ariel.liang@icann.org wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear all,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor windowtext; border-image: none; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;">The leadership team has developed revised language for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Final Recommendation 3.5</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Implementation Guidance 3.6</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for your consideration. Please share your thought on this email thread before next week’s meeting.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;">Ariel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><i><u><span style="">Final Recommendation 3.5:</span></u></i></b><b><i><span style=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><i><span style="">In addition to explaining the mission and purpose of its applied-for primary gTLD string, a future applicant will be required to explain why it has applied for one or more allocatable variant label(s) of that applied-for primary gTLD string. The same requirement applies to existing registry operators who wish to apply for allocatable variant label(s) of their existing gTLDs. The explanation provided must address the following factors for each and every applied-for variant label: </span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="">3.5.1 The meaning of the applied-for variant label and how it is the same as the applied-for primary gTLD string or existing gTLD; </span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="">3.5.2 The language communities who will benefit from the introduction of the applied-for variant label; </span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="">3.5.3 The benefits that introducing the variant label in conjunction with the applied-for primary gTLD string or existing gTLD will provide to registrants, Internet users and the online community at-large; and <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>3.5.4 How the applicant intends to mitigate potential user-confusion that could be caused by not only the introduction of the applied-for gTLD variant label at the top-level but also in combination with the activation of domain names at the second-level.<o:p></o:p></i></p><div style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor windowtext; border-image: none; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><i><u><span style="">Implementation Guidance 3.6</span></u></i></b><b><i><span style="">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><i><span style="">A panel of evaluators with relevant expertise should review the explanation submitted by an applicant for each of the applied-for variant label(s) using criteria based on a general standard of reasonableness. In other words, the submitted responses should be reasonably legitimate and address or remedy concerns arising from the factors set out in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Final Recommendation 3.5</u>. Additional criteria may be included provided any additional criteria is pre-identified during implementation. Evaluators may ask clarifying questions of the applicant on the submitted explanation, but the evaluators are not obliged to take the clarifying information into account. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="">Consistent with Recommendation 27.2 from the SubPro PDP Final Report, each of the applied-for variant labels evaluated against the identified criteria will be scored on a pass/fail scale (0-1 point<s>s</s><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>only). Applicants will be presumed to have carefully considered whether the applied-for variant labels are necessary to achieve the stated mission and purpose of the primary gTLD and as such, receiving a score of zero (0) should be rare. However, in the event that an applied-for variant label receives a score of zero (0 point), that variant label will be ineligible to proceed further in the application process. A variant label that receives a score of 1 point can proceed to the next stage of the application process. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="">The same applies to existing registry operators such that only their applied-for variant labels that each receive a score of 1 point can proceed to the next stage of the application process.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Gnso-epdp-idn-team mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:Gnso-epdp-idn-team@icann.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Gnso-epdp-idn-team@icann.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-epdp-idn-team" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-epdp-idn-team</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>