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WHEREAS the At-Large Community of ICANN is extremely deeply concerned about numerous identified problems with the procedures related to setting and upholding Public Interest to Interest Commitments (PICs) in the current round of gTLD applications;

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• ADVISES the Board of ICANN to immediately "freeze" (temporarily suspend implementation ofthat is, cease contracting of or delegating) the 28 TLD strings identified by the GAC as requiring enhanced safeguards ("Category 1, Safeguards 1-8"), pending further community review and subsequent changes to the Public Interest provisions of the TLD agreements;
   
• FORMS a sub-committee, comprised of At-Large and other ICANN community members, to examine the current PIC mechanism, as well as any other Public Interest safeguards that may be deployed for relevant TLDs, and to recommend enhancements that better protect consumers and end-users in an expedited manner;
   
• ASSIGNS a liaison to the newly-formed ICANN Public Responsibility Department Contract Compliance and Safeguards Group (subject to approval by  by the DepartmentGroup), in order to ensure that the At-Large Community is aware of the initiatives and progress of the Department on an ongoing basis.

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