[ALAC] New gTLD Program Committee - 25 June 2013

[Alan Greenberg]

The NGPC has been busy - 
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-25jun13-en.htm. 


Lots of interesting stuff including reference to an automated Whois 
verification tool that will be run by ICANN! Actually taking 
responsibility for this instead of just presuming it is someone 
else's job. Although this was clearly underway when the ALAC 
submitted its comments on the GAC Safeguards, this is completely in 
line with our concern about imposing new and onerous responsibilities 
on the new registries, and ICANN doing whatever possible itself to 
reduce such new requirements on registries.

Also note the proposed use of Mandatory Public Interest Commitments 
for all new TLDs. Interesting concept. Now, we just need to see how 
these PICs will actually be enforced.

Alan