At-Large Session Reports from ICANN78.

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Saturday, 21 October 2023

09:00-10:00 CEST

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10:30-12:00 CEST

In the first session, the EPDP Team took stock of the state of Consensus of the Phase 1 report. It was announced that the final report will be handed over to the GNSO Council in early Nov 2023.

For the rest of the two sessions, the team continued to examine the Phase 2 Charter Questions, revisiting the question of the definition of the source domain and variant domain set (which had to include variants at the top- and second-level labels). The meeting also discussed the question of defining the "entity" for the "same-entity" principle to apply, and also the question of transaction fees for registration and activation of variant domain names.

While there are no At-Large-specific action items, the entire policy on IDN Variants has a strong end-user component.

Saturday, 21 October 2023 

10:30-12:00 CEST

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Sunday, 

10:30-12:00 CEST

Hall Y 5-8 (ALAC)

Update on EPDP on IDNs:

The EPDP on IDNs develops policy for managing IDN Variants at the top (Phase 1) and second (Phase 2) levels.

The four major principles derived by the EPDP on IDNs Phase 1 work are (a) RZ-LGR as the sole source of variants; (b) The integrity of the variant set; (c) The Same Entity Principle; and (d) The principle of Conservatism. The EPDP Team’s work since ICANN77 included Processing the public comments from the Phase 1 Report, and working on the Charter Questions for Phase 2

While processing the public comments from the Phase 1 report, ALAC and RySG arrived at a consensus although they had started out with different positions on Rec 8.1, where ALAC urged caution in opening up too many variant labels, while RySG did not want any ceiling. Two specific points that were discussed in this context were: (a) Justifying the need for the number of variants gTLDs applied for; and (b) How the applicant plans to mitigate the potential risk of confusability to end-users, given the number of variants.

It was announced that as of early morning on 22 Oct 2023, the Phase 1 report achieved “full consensus” designation, indicating the successful closure of Phase 1. Since Phase 1 deals with the top-level, it is important to note that resolution of one of the dependencies of the new round of gTLDs has been achieved

The Phase 2 discussions were around how the principles were re-oriented for the second level. Specifically:

• At the second level, RZ-LGR is not used. Instead, a registry-level mechanism called IDN tables is used. In order to achieve uniformity, a further step called harmonization would be required
• There are discussions about whether harmonization should be registry-level or across registries for a given script(s)
• Also, the same-entity principle is applicable and the second level, but may work differently, as there are no mechanisms currently in place that makes the identification of an “entity” feasible within or across registries
• The definition of the variant set may need to be expanded to include the second-level variants of all the top-level variants of the gTLDs
• Grandfathering would be required for some cases of existing/delegated gTLDs
• Examining how legal/contractual would change at the second-level when variants are to be accommodated

In order to fast-track the work on Phase 2, a face-to-face meeting
of the EPDP participants (subject to an attendance cut-off) is
being planned in Kuala Lumpur in the first week of December

At-Large Operations, Finance and Budget (OFB-WG) - Overview and Year Ahead

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At-Large Consolidated Policy WG (CPWG) - Overview and Year Ahead

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Joint Session: ALAC & SSAC

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Sunday, 22 October 2023

09:00-10:00 & 10:30-12:00

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Joint Meeting: Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and GNSO Council 

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IDN EPDP (3 of 3)

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