Enhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model – Next Steps
The At-Large community is pleased to follow up on its prior ALAC statements regarding ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model (see: 13 June 2019, 14 October 2019, February 2020) with this ALAC statement on Enhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model - Next Steps. The ALAC made recommendations on priority issues, moving out of silos, restoring recruitment and demographics, reviewing previous responses, identifying gaps, pandemic related issues and evaluation of success with respect to the latest Public Comment on the topic.

Final Report of the Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) on new gTLD Auction Proceeds
The ALAC appointed five Members to the CCWG and these Members, alongside several participants from At-Large, were very active contributors to the work of the CCWG. The ALAC believes that all of its concerns have been addressed and therefore was pleased to accept and ratify the Final Report of the new gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross Community Working Group.

Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3) Final Report
The ALAC strongly supports the limited and focused number of recommendations proposed by the ATRT3 report, reflecting the pending implementation of proposals from previous review teams. In moving forward, the ALAC advises the ICANN Board to: (1) Swiftly implement ATRT3 recommendation to evolve both specific and organizational reviews as per Section 8 of the final report; (2) Fully endorse the recommendation to enhance current methods of Prioritization and Rationalization of Activities, Policies, and Recommendations (as per Section 10 of the report); (3) Share the ATRT3 Review Team’s approach to the review process and methodology behind it, aiming to ensure that all elements contributing to achieving strategic objectives and their subcomponents are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-based (SMART) and that all reporting on these refers to well specified metrics, to be reviewed on a regular or timely basis (as per Section 9 of the report).

ALAC Statement on EPDP (July 2020)
A vast amount of work has been done, but the ALAC believes that if and when the SSAD is deployed, the probability of its meeting the goals needed by the communities whose efforts we support will be low. Therefore, in order for the ALAC to support the EPDP Final Report, the ALAC noted the following GNSO Council outcomes would be required:

GNSO Council would agree that any Evolution Standing Committee recommendation on additional SSAD decision use-cases (that are in full accordance with the EPDP Policy Recommendation 9.3) will be treated as Implementation and not require further policy deliberations.
Legal vs Natural, Accuracy, WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System and Anonymized contact email will be fully addressed with full participation in all aspects of discussions by the ICANN Advisory Committees that wish to participate. If these issues are deemed to be policy, they must be addressed by a group empowered to make policy recommendations, led by a qualified, non-conflicted chair. The GAC, ALAC and SSAC must be involved in setting the mandate or charter of such groups. The target for completion of all work should be no later than April 2021.
The GNSO Council would agree that ratifying the Evolution Standing Committee recommendations will only require a GNSO Majority as currently called for in the GNSO Policy Manual.
The GNSO Council would acknowledge that deliberations during implementation setting of prices for the SSAD must involve the future potential users of the SSAD and not only look at cost recovery but the actual ability and willingness of SSAD users to pay the prices being set.

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Upcoming Public Comment Proceedings

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Issue Report on the ccNSO Policy Development Process for Selection of the IDN ccTLD Strings

This proceeding seeks feedback from the community on issues that were identified and need to be addressed with respect to selection of the IDN ccTLD strings. ccPDP will build on previous ccNSO effort on IDN ccTLD string selection and take into account the evolution of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process & IDN TLD variant management.

ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) Placement and Methodology Study

ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) Placement and Methodology Study is seeking public comments.

New gTLD Subsequent Procedures – Draft Final Recommendations

The GNSO's New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG is working towards its set of draft final recommendations. The WG expects to publish the entire draft Final Report for public comment, though it will likely seek to solicit targeted feedback on certain sections.

Issue Final Paper on the Proposed Policy Recommendations for the Retirement of ccTLDs

As part of the ccNSO PDP3 effort, this final paper includes proposed policy recommendations for the retirement of ccTLDs.Reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the Second Level

To facilitate and improve consistency of testing and stability of registry operations of new gTLDs, ICANN is developing reference Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) tables in machine readable format, called Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the second level for scripts for which detailed analyses have been completed based on the Guidelines for Developing Reference Label Generation Rules (LGRs) for the Second Level Version 2. These reference IDN tables will be published for community feedback.

Hyperlocal Deployment Plan

Hyperlocal Deployment Plan is seeking public comments.

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Proposal for Myanmar Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)

The Myanmar script community has formed the Myanmar script Generation Panel (GP), which in turn has developed the Proposal for the Myanmar Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules. As per the LGR Procedure, this proposal is being posted for public comments to allow those who have not participated in the Myanmar script GP to make their views known to the GP. Based on the feedback, the Myanmar script GP will finalize the proposal for submission for integration into the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone.

Proposal for Latin Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)

The Latin script community has formed the Latin script Generation Panel (GP), which in turn has developed the Proposal for the Latin Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules. As per the LGR Procedure, this proposal is being posted for public comments to allow those who have not participated in the Latin script GP to make their views known to the GP. Based on the feedback, the Latin script GP will finalize the proposal for submission for integration into the Label Generation Rules for the Root Zone.

Proposed Renewal of .AERO Registry Agreement

ICANN Organization is seeking input on the proposed .aero renewal agreement.

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Draft PTI and IANA FY22 Operating Plan and Budget

ICANN Organization is seeking community input and feedback on two documents, the Draft PTI FY22 Operating Plan and Budget, and the Draft IANA FY22 Operating Plan and Budget.

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Second Security,Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Final Report

The final report of the Security, Stability and Resiliency Review (SSR2) is expected to be issued in October 2020. The final report is submitted for public comment to inform the ICANN Board actions on the SSR2 final recommendations.

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Draft ICANNFY22 Operating Plan and Budget

ICANN Organization is seeking community input and feedback on the Draft ICANN FY22 Operating Plan and Budget.

Domain Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) 2.0

Domain Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) 2.0 is seeking public comments.

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Current Statements (ALAC Advice, Comment or Correspondence)

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GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Draft Final Report

30 Sep 2020

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Justine Chew & Small Team:

Alan Greenberg

Christopher Wilkinson

Holly Raiche

Marita Moll

Reference Label Generation Rulesets (LGRs) for the Second Level

15 Oct 2020

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Drafting team member(s):

Bill Jouris

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Reminder: "Webinar in Support of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process Working Group’s Draft Final Report" to take place Monday, 14 September at 20:00 UTC. If you are interested in joining, please email gnso-secs@icann.org.

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