This work space is designed to hose a proposed ALAC response to the GAC indicative scorecard on new gTLD outstanding issues listed in the GAC Cartagena Communiqué (available at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-scorecard-23feb11-en.pdf).

BACKGROUND

Earlier premilinary analysis of the Scorecard, based on the ALAC work within the Rec6 Working Group, resulted in a preliminary analysis whose results are available at ALAC - February 2011 - GAC-Board Meeting

At the GAC/ALAC meeting of March 13, 2011, the GAC specifically requested a written formal response from the ALAC to the above-stated Scorecard. I the subsequent days of the ICANN 40 meeting, the ICANN Board and other stakeholders have also requested similar ALAC feedback.

Originally, based on the request of the GAC an original proposal was to group the scorecard items into logical themes that can each be addressed as a whole, and even (should we want) prioritized according to ALAC needs:

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