[ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- NGPC Progress on GAC Advice

[At-Large Staff]

ICANN News Alert
 
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http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-10may13-en.htm
 

 
NGPC Progress on GAC Advice
 

10 May 2013
 

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) wishes to share with the
ICANN community its progress in consideration of the GAC advice and what
steps are still to be taken. The NGPC met on 8 May to consider a Plan for
responding to the Governmental Advisory Committee's advice on New gTLDs,
transmitted to the Board through its 11 April Beijing Communiqué. The Plan
is in two parts: Part 1 shown below consists of actions for soliciting input
from Applicants and from the Community.
   
   Item Resp. Start Date Compl. Date Status
 1 Publish GAC Communiqué and notify applicants of 21-day GAC Advice
Response Period Staff   18 April Complete
 2 Applicants 21-day response period to GAC Advice Applicants 19 April 10
May In progress  
 3 Publish GAC Communiqué to solicit input on how the New gTLD Board
Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad
categories of New gTLD strings Staff   23 April Complete
 4 Public comment period on how Board should address GAC Advice re:
Safeguards Public 23 April Comment:
 May 14
 Reply:
 4 June In Progress
 5 Collect and summarize applicant responses to GAC Advice Staff 11 May 31
May Not Started  
 6 Summarize and analyze public comments on how Board should address GAC
Advice re: Safeguards Staff 5 June 12 June Not Started
 7 Review and consider Applicant responses to GAC Advice and Public Comments
on how Board should respond to GAC Advice re: Safeguards New gTLD Program
Committee 13 June 20 June Not Started
 

Part 2 consists of actions for responding to each advice given by the GAC.
In so doing, the NGPC is developing a GAC scorecard similar to the one used
during the GAC and the Board meetings in Brussels on 28 February and 1 March
2011.
 

Each GAC scorecard item will be noted with a "1A", "1B", or "2":
 
* "1A" indicates that the NGPC's proposed position is consistent with GAC
advice as described in the Scorecard.
* "1B" indicates that the NGPC's proposed position is consistent with GAC
advice as described in the Scorecard in principle, with some revisions to be
made. 
* "2" indicates that the NGPC's current position is not consistent with GAC
advice as described in the Scorecard, and further discussion with the GAC is
required following relevant procedures in the ICANN Bylaws.
 

Part 2 of the Plan is not yet finalized and, with respect to some of the
advice, cannot be finalized until after the review of the Public Comments
due to be completed on 20 June.
 

The NGPC will next meet in Amsterdam on 18 May and will provide a further
update following that meeting.