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Preliminary Report | Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee 29 May 2012

Note: On 10 April 2012, the Board established the New gTLD Program Committee, comprised of all voting members of the Board that are not conflicted with respect to the New gTLD Program. The Committee was granted all of the powers of the Board (subject to the limitations set forth by law, the Articles of incorporation, Bylaws or ICANN's Conflicts of Interest Policy) to exercise Board-level authority for any and all issues that may arise relating to the New gTLD Program. The full scope of the Committee's authority is set forth in its charter at http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/new-gTLD.

Formal Minutes are still to be approved by the New gTLD Program Committee. This has not been approved by the New gTLD Program Committee and does not constitute minutes but does provide a preliminary attempt setting forth the unapproved reporting of the resolutions from that meeting. Details on voting and abstentions will be provided in the Minutes, when approved at a future meeting.

NOTE ON ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED WITHIN PRELIMINARY REPORT – ON RATIONALES -- Where available, a draft Rationale for each of the Board's actions is presented under the associated Resolution. A draft Rationale is not final until approved with the minutes of the Board meeting.

A telephonic Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors was held on 29 May 2012 at 18:00 UTC.

Committee Chairman Cherine Chalaby promptly called the meeting to order.

In addition to the Chair the following Directors participated in all or part of the meeting: Chris Disspain, Bill Graham, R. Ramaraj, George Sadowsky, and Mike Silber.

Thomas Narten, IETF Liaison and non-voting liaison to the committee, was also in attendance.

Rod Beckstrom, Erika Mann, Gonzalo Navarro, Ray Plzak, Kuo-Wei Wu, and Thomas Roessler, TLG Liaison and non-voting liaison to the committee, sent apologies.

Heather Dryden, GAC Liaison, attended as an observer.

This is a preliminary report the Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee, which took place on 29 May 2012.

 

  1. Batching Process

 

  1. Batching Process

    The New gTLD Program Committee had a discussion with staff focusing on the digital archery system, focusing on the issue of batch creation and the considerations of geographical diversity in the proposed system, as well as how string contention sets would be considered within the batching sets. The Program Committee reaffirmed that geographic diversity would be addressed in a "round robin" format among the geographic regions, and that all strings in a contention set would move to the earliest batch among the applications within the set. Staff also discussed a forthcoming communications piece on the batching system.

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