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Joint Statement by ALAC and GAC: Enabling Inclusive, Informed and Meaningful Participation at ICANN

At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) Advice to the ICANN Board on New gTLD Contention Resolution

This Advice was submitted to the ICANN Board on 2 November 201721 June 2024.  For complete historical information on the development of this Advice, visit the At-Large workspace: Joint Statement by ALAC and GAC: Enabling Inclusive, Informed and Meaningful Participation at ICANN and ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board on New gTLD Contention Resolution and the At-Large website:  https://atlarge.icann.org/advice_statements/10443.policy-summary.



ALAC Contention Resolution.pdf




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Recommendation DescriptionPhase

Recommendation 1

The ALAC advises the ICANN Board to ban all forms of post-application private resolution of contention sets, including joint-ventures regardless of claims as good-faith joint ventures, with possible one exception - where there are community-based applications in direct contention with one another and two or more of them prevail in a Community Priority Evaluation (CPE), then ICANN may postpone the auction for a limited period of time to allow such parties to reach a settlement before proceeding to auction involving only them (as currently provided for in section 4.2.2 of the 2012 Application Guidebook).

Phase 2 | Understand

Recommendation 2

The ALAC advises the ICANN Board to adjust the ICANN Auction of Last Resort to an auction process methodology comparable to a Vickrey Auction (sealed-bid second-price auction) requiring each gTLD string application to be accompanied by an auction bid at the time the application is submitted, and prior to any indication of possible contention sets being formed.Phase 2 | Understand

Develop a simple and efficient document management system that allows non-experts to easily and quickly access and identify documents, starting with defining minimal requirements that ensure that every document has a title and a date or reference number, identifies the author and indicates intended recipients, makes reference to the process it belongs to and explains the acronyms used in the document.

Phase 4 | Implement

Recommendation 2

Produce easily understandable executive summaries, key points and synopses (using e.g. infographs, videos and other innovative ways of presenting information) for all relevant issues, processes and activities, so that also non-expert stakeholders will be able to (a) quickly determine if a particular issue is of concern to them and (b) if yes, to participate in the policy process easily and effectively, on equal footing with other stakeholders. This should be done at least, but not only, before putting issues up for public comment. Attention should be paid to using plain English (and if possible translations into other languages) in order to allow non-English native speakers to understand the issues.Phase 4 | Implement