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The Final Issue Report recommends that the GNSO Council should initiate a Policy Development Process (PDP) limited to the issues discussed in this report but delay the next steps in the PDP until the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services completes its recommendations, in May 2013 with a possible extension, in order to ensure that the resulting policy recommendations would be consistent with any new model or approaches to contact data that may result from the Expert Working Group’s deliberations;
As recommended by the WHOIS Policy Review Team the Final Issue Report also recommends that ICANN should commission a study on the commercial feasibility of translation or transliteration systems for internationalized contact data, which is expected to help inform the PDP Working Group in its deliberations;
ICANN’s General Counsel has confirmed that the topic is properly within the scope of the ICANN policy process and within the scope of the GNSO.
Link to motion
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+10+April+2013
4.1 Reading of the motion ().
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Item 6: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – Template to request an Issues Report (10 minutes)
One outcome from the Operations and Organisation meeting that GNSO Council Leadership held with ICANN staff in Amsterdam earlier this year, was to develop an online template to complete the request for an Issue Report.
The objective of this tool is to encourage requestors to gather as much information as possible and engage in early discussions with others prior to submitting a request for an Issue Report. The intended outcome is that by encouraging completion of all the information requested in the template, it will be possible to identify what information may still be needed and encourage collaboration between different interested parties at an early stage.
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6.1 – Discussion
6.2 – Next steps
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Item 7: UPDATE & DISCUSSION – Outcomes from sessions in Beijing (15 minutes)
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7.1 – Discussion
7.2 – Next steps
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Item 8: Any Other Business (5 minutes)
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