Motion – Adoption of the Expedited Policy Development Process on the Internationalized Domain Names Phase 1 Final Report and Recommendations
Submitted by: Manju Chen
Seconded by: Jennifer Chung
WHEREAS:
- On 20 May 2021, the GNSO Council initiated the Expedited Policy Development Process on Internationalized Domain Names (EPDP-IDNs) and approved its charter.
- On 11 August 2021, the EPDP-IDNs Team held its first meeting and started deliberations.
- 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.
- 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.
- The EPDP-IDNs Team has reached Full Consensus on all of its sixty-nine (69) final recommendations documented in the Phase 1 Final Report.
- On 08 November 2023, the EPDP-IDNs Team submitted its Phase 1 Final Report to the GNSO Council for its review and action.
RESOLVED:
- The GNSO Council approves, and recommends that the ICANN Board adopt, all sixty-nine (69) final recommendations as documented in the EPDP-IDNs Phase 1 Final Report.
- Should the final recommendations be adopted by the ICANN Board, the GNSO Council requests that ICANN org convene an IDN Implementation Review Team, to assist ICANN org in developing the implementation details for the Phase 1 final recommendations and ensure that the resultant implementation conforms to the intent of the approved recommendations. The Implementation Review Team shall operate in accordance with the Implementation Review Team Principles and Guidance approved by the GNSO Council in June 2015.
- The GNSO Council thanks the leadership, members, participants, and liaisons to the EPDP-IDNs Team for their commitment and hard work in completing the Phase One effort of this EPDP.
