Team:   Carlos Raul Gutierrez, Kaili, Kan, Drew Bagley, Jonathan Zuck, Laureen Kapin,

Gaonglalewe Mosweu, Fabri Steibel,  Waudo SIganga, Jordyn Buchanan, Calvin Browne, Megan Richards

Observers: None.

Staff:  Jean-Baptiste Deroulez, Pamela Smith, Brian Aitchison, Eleeza Agopian, Antonietta Mangiacotti , Margie Milam, Alice Jansen

Apologies:  Carlton Samuels, Jamie Hedlund, Dejan Dukic, David Taylor

Agenda:  

AGENDA

1. Research updates
1. DNS Abuse Study
2. Economic Study
3. NTLD Stats
2. Stan’s “wish list”
3. Plenary call preps

- Welcome, roll-call, SoI (5 min)

-Build recommendations based on Competition & Consumer Choice High-level findings (45 min)

- Build recommendations based on Safeguards & Trust High-level findings (45 min)

-        Has the New gTLD Program Put Sufficient Mechanisms In Place to Mitigate risks to the Trustworthiness of the DNS? papers i.e.

• Have the Safeguards been Implemented in a Manner that Promotes Effective Enforcement?
  • Technical safeguards (Calvin)
  • Implemented GAC safeguards (Laureen)
  • Voluntary PICs 5drew, Laureen)
  • RPMs (David)
  • Have the New gTLD Operators complied with:
    • Technical safeguards (Fabro)
    • GAC implemented safeguards (Fabro)
    • RPMs (David)
  • What was the impact of the New Safeguards on DNS Abuse? (Drew)
  • Did the New Rights Protection Mechanisms mitigate certain risks involved with the Expansion of the New gTLD program? (David)

-        Has the New gTLD program put mechanisms in to improve trustworthiness in the DNS?

• Background of History of GAC Safeguards and new Registry Agreement (Laureen)
• Description of Technical Safeguards and Implementation (Calvin)
• Description of Safeguards Applicable to all gTLDs and Implementation (Laureen)
• Description of Safeguards Applicable to sensitive/highly regulated gTLDs and Implementation (Laureen)
• Description of Voluntary Public Interest Commitments (Drew/Laureen)
• Description of Rights Protection Mechanisms (David)

-        Effectiveness of Procedures to Enforce Safeguards

• Are the new procedures effective in enforcing safeguards? (Carlton)

-        Have these efforts had an impact on public perception of the DNS? papers?

• What is the level of consumer awareness of the new gTLDs? (Carlton, Gao)
• Have consumers expressed trust in the new gTLD program efforts? (Laureen)
• Has consumer trust in the DNS improved overall since the introduction of new gTLDs? (Jamie)

- Identify findings on Application and Evaluation paper (15 min)

-        Was the application and evaluation process effective at addressing the needs of underserved areas and markets? (Waudo)

- Draft report structure & next steps (5 min)

- A.O.B (5 min)

Documents:

Recordings:

• Adobe Connect

• mp3

Chat Transcript:  EN

Transcript:    EN

Notes:

Recommendations Template: Given Finding X, we see a deficiency/excess/limitation Y and therefore recommend Z to address it.

* ST-02. Technichal Safeguards_Calvin v4: 

•       Rec 1:  Calvin to review Compliance Reporting to restate the first recommendation to be more specific
•       Rec. 2:  Calvin to update 2nd recommendation to reference known costs of safeguards (by cost center - registrar, registrant, etc.)
•      New Rec:  ICANN to be whitelisted & not rate limited for WHOIS lookups

•  ACTION ITEM:   ICANN to get info from WHOIS ARS on rate limiting challenges

*ST-Voluntary PICs_Drew_v2:

•       Rec:  Registries to self report on voluntary pics
•  ACTION ITEM:   Drew and Carlos to come up with language on self reporting recommendation

* CCC FINDINGS:

gTLD Market:

•  ACTION ITEM:  ICANN legal to provide information on whether ICANN should be collecting price data directly

Parking:

     Effects of parking - DNS abuse study

    Assertions of increased parking with new gTLD's and negative effects of parking  

•  New Rec:   Recommendations to study parking