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- The analysis from the New gTLD Program and Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (CCT) Reviews are used to determine how effective the new gTLD program was in the current round – whether it was successful, and what challenges there were. On behalf of the CCT Review Team, AM Global issued a report on interviews conducted for the New gTLD applications. The various CCT Review surveys and reports can be found at: https://icann-community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56135383atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CCT/pages/102137872/Competition+Consumer+Trust+and+Consumer+Choice+Review+CCT
- Need for greater outreach on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) program. APAC community could work together to bring awareness on providing applicant support to IDNs and not limit the applicant support criteria to the previous round.
- On outreach to under-served economies on new gTLDs, a community member highlighted that with market competition, general Internet users would gravitate to domain names that are freely available. The community should consider what the cost and value would be in having registry operators from under-served economies.
- On general capacity building and newcomer programmes, a community member suggested better classifying such programmes for beginners to build leadership and language capacity in an accessible location. For instance, there could be dedicated webpages to programmes such as NextGen@ICANN and ICANN Fellowship.
- The meeting noted that the discussions on PDP and the various work tracks are recorded and readily available. This would be useful for the PDP members, who are relatively new, as well as other interested community members. To prepare for participation in the WG, please refer to the final issue report outlining the discussion topics.
- To sign up for the WG, please email the GNSO Secretariat at gnso-secs@icann.org.
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