...
Such topics could need to be called out for wider community comment in the Final Report. Nevertheless, the WG was making sufficient progress to rationalize the additional time spent. Cheryl also shared that At-Large would hold a public SubPro capacity-building webinar on 3 Aug 2020.
Review of Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) PDP: Heather Forrest (RPM PDP WG)
...
At ICANN68, the WG held an open session reviewing public comments received on its Phase 1 Initial Report. The WG was currently split into sub-groups A and B – the former reviewing public comments on everything except URS while the latter focused on those just for URS. The sub-groups were using a very useful review tool developed by ICANN Policy Support staff (found further down the page in the aforementioned “reviewing” link). They were looking for any new perspectives the WG had not considered before as part of their recommendations process to put forth to the GNSO Council. The WG aimed to submit the Phase 1 Final Report to the Council by mid-October 2020. Earlier this year, RPM PDP extended its timeline by nearly six months.
...