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1. On 20 May 2021, the GNSO Council initiated the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names (EPDP-IDNs) and approved its charter.
2. On 11 August 2021, the EPDP-IDNs Team held its first meeting and started deliberations.
3. On 17 November 2022, the GNSO Council approved the Project Change Request submitted by the EPDP-IDNs Team to bifurcate its work into two phases, with Phase 1 covering topics related to top-level gTLD definition and variant management and Phase 2 covering issues pertaining to second-level variant management.
4. The EPDP-IDNs Team has followed all the necessary steps and processes required by the ICANN Bylaws, the GNSO PDP Manual, and the GNSO Working Group Guidelines, including the publication of its Phase 1 Initial Report for Public Comment (from 24 April 2023 to 19 June 2023) and consideration of the public comments received thereto.
5. The EPDP-IDNs Team has reached Full Consensus on all of its sixty-nine (69) final recommendations documented in the Phase 1 Final Report.
6. On 08 November 2023, the EPDP-IDNs Team submitted its Phase 1 Final Report to the GNSO Council for its review and action.

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