The At the Dakar meeting the At-Large New gTLDs WG was renewed. The current mandate includes Working Group (ANGWG) restarted at ICANN42 in Dakar. The WG performed the following work items:

Objection Process: At-Large is charged with developing a method to accept, filter and submit community-based objections to TLD proposals (similar to what the GAC will the GAC will have)
Applicant Support Issuessupport issues: With the the JAS report complete complete, that group will be winding down but it will be necessary for At-Large to monitor its acceptance and implementation (to the extent that it is accepted and implemented)
Outreach evaluation & recommendation: Review and remediation of poor results in applications for new gTLDs and applications for support from developing economies
At-Large New gTLD Rollout Issues Workspace: As the gTLD process unfolds, At-Large will want to observe its the rollout and may develop further advice on it going forward.

During ICANN42, Avria Doria was appointed by the ALAC as Chair of the ANGWG, and Evan Leibovitch as At that time, the ALAC appointed Avri Doria as chair of the group starting at the end of the Dakar meeting, with Evan Leibovitch serving as the ALAC liaison to the WG.

The WG will use the recently developed set of Working Guideline produced in the NGSO with major representation from At-large as the guideline for the group operations. These guidelines can be found at: <http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-07apr11-en.pdf guidelines> and <http://gnso.icann.org/council/summary-gnso-wg-guidelines-06apr11-en.pdf summary> . These are, however, only guidelines and the GTLD WG will, over time, adapt them to its own needs. Original Descriptionoperates based upon the GNSO Working Guidelines, produced with substantial At-Large representation. Please refer to the guidelines here and here. Please note these are guidelines, and the ANGWG will update them to their specific needs over time.

On 1 November 2007 at the Annual General Meeting (AGM), the ICANN Board approved the GNSO New GTLDs gTLDs Policy agreed by the GNSO. This means that it is now up to the staff of ICANN ICANN Staff now as the responsibility to propose, for public comment and review, the practical implementation of the process by which new GTLDs will be added to the root zone.

As a result of this, the At-Large Advisory Committee created a new working group (ALAC) created the ANGWG to follow developments. All interested participants in the At-Large community are encouraged to join!

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Contact

Staff Support Lead: Evin Erdoğdu

Mailing list: gtld-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org

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Members

The members of At-Large New gTLD WG, organized by regional affiliation, are:

Region	Member	Office

/ Community Affiliation

NARALO/EURALO

Avri Doria

Co-Chair of the new gTLDs WG

NARALO

Evan Leibovitch

ALAC Liaison to the new gTLD WG; ALAC representative


AFRALO	Philip Fomba Johnson	Member
AFRALO	Etienne Tshishimbi	Member
AFRALO	Mwendwa Kivuva	Member
AFRALO	Tijani Ben

Jemma
ALAC representative/Vice-Chair of AFRALO

Jemaa	Member
AFRALO

Yaovi Atohoun

Fanny Salyou

Member

ALAC representative

AFRALO

and APRALO

Rafik Dammak

JAS WG Co-Chair, GNSO Council member

EURALO

Annette Muehlberg

NARALO

Alan Greenberg

ALAC Liaison to the GNSO

LACRALO

Dev Anand Teelucksingh

Secretary of LACRALO

EURALO

Rudi Vasnick

APRALO

Vivek Vivekandan

Member
APRALO	Inam Ali	Member
APRALO	Maureen Hilyard	Member
APRALO	Vivek Vivekandan	Member
APRALO	Hong Xue	Member
APRALO	Fouad Bajwa	Member
APRALO	Cheryl Langdon-Orr	Member
EURALO	Annette Muehlberg	Member
EURALO	Rudi Vansnick	Member

APRALO

Hong Xue

ccNSO Council member


EURALO	Olivier Crepin-Leblond

Chair of the ALAC

	Member
EURALO	Matthieu Camus	Member
LACRALO	Dev Anand Teelucksingh	Member

APRALO

Cheryl Langdon-Orr

ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO


LACRALO	Cintra Sooknanan

Co-Chair of the New gTLDs WG

	Member
LACRALO	Lilian Ivette De Luque Bruges	Member
	Jonathan Zuck	Chair
NARALO	Evan Leibovitch	Member
NARALO	Andrew Mack	Member
NARALO	David Solomonoff	Member
NARALO	Thomas Lowenhaupt	Member