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Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks to obtain community input on the Preliminary Issue Report on a Policy Development Process to Review the Transfer Policy.

Current Status: In accordance with the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) rules, ICANN org is publishing the Preliminary Issue Report for Public Comment to allow for community input on additional information, or the correction or updating of any information provided so far. ICANN org is seeking in particular input on the draft policy questions proposed in Section 3.2.2 of this Preliminary Issue Report, as well as the text provided in the draft Preliminary Charter in Annex A.

Excerpt: Description and Explanation
At its meeting on 24 June 2020, the GNSO Council voted to request the preparation of a Preliminary Issue Report on the issues identified in the Transfer Policy Initial Scoping Paper, to assist in determining whether a PDP or series of PDPs should be initiated regarding changes to the Transfer Policy.

This Preliminary Issue Report on a Policy Development Process to Review the Transfer Policy examines, et.al, the issues identified in the Transfer Policy Initial Scoping Paper and includes:

1. Gaining & Losing Registrar Form of Authorization ("FOA")
2. Auth Code Management
3. Change of Registrant
4. Transfer Emergency Action Contact ("TEAC")
5. Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy ("TDRP")
6. Reversing/NACKing Transfers

7. ICANN-Approved Transfers

   
   

8. EPDP Rec. 27

Section 3 of this Report explores the above-referenced issues individually and provides references to documents and processes that could inform future policy work.

Next Steps: Following review of the Public Comments received, ICANN org will update the Preliminary Issue Report and submit a summary of the comments received together with the Final Issue Report to the GNSO Council for its consideration and potential action.

To Comment:  Use the apralo-policy@icann.org mail list and/or this designated Googledoc 

Outcome: Discussion outputs could be forwarded to CPWG and/or transposed to an APRALO standalone submission to the public comment process.

It was proposed that representatives from each of the RALOs will discuss:

• Existing regional efforts already underway including available resources and lessons learned
• Additional resources (videos, flyers, etc.) that are necessary to enhance outreach on this topic
• Creative ways to get these resources in front of as many individual ends users around the world as possible
• Potential metrics to evaluate each of these efforts to allow for program assessment and refinement

Current Status: This is the follow on action, marking the first of many onward discussions, necessary to launch a large scale education campaign on DNS Abuse.

Next Steps: Each RALO to identify a representative to this discussion during ICANN69. That representative should come prepared with an understanding of what resources of which they are aware, which ones are being developed already by local organizations (ISOC, RALOs and other regional organizations) and what additional materials they believe are needed in their region. They should be prepared to brainstorm on how best to organize this effort at the regional level, once materials are identified; in other words:

• Should we identify a standard set of resources and then have the RALOs supplement them with regional flavor?
• Should this effort be parked as Capacity Building or Outreach?

The goal is to establish a group to work on this topic going forward, 

Particular Focus for APRALO: To identify one or more representatives to act as our regional liaisons to this campaign and to help collate relevant information currently available with our region as our input.

To Comment or Add to the At-Large Resource Collection, go to: