Attendees:  Carlos Raul Gutierrez, Drew Bagley, Stanley Besen, Laureen Kapin, Megan Richards, Gaongalelwe Mosweu, Jamie Hedlund, Waudo Siganga, Dejan Djukic, David Taylor

Observers: Crescent Ezekwu

Apologies: Jonathan Zuck, Jordyn Buchanan

Staff:  Brenda Brewer, Eleeza Agopian, Pamela Smith, Alice Jansen, Dennis Chang, Margie Milam, Brian Aitchison, Karen Mulberry, Karen Lentz

Agenda:

 1. Welcome, roll-call, SOI

2. Presentation from Dennis Chang on outreach to Underserved Regions

• Additional information from Carlton

3. Studies and surveys – Progress update

• Research funds and June 30 deadline

4. Competition & Consumer Choice Subteam - Progress update – https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58727390 

• Market definitions
• Topic area
• Language
• Geography 

5. Safeguards & Trust – Progress update – https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58727388

6. Application & Evaluation Process 

• Brainstorming 
• Work plan (see attached)

7. Report of coordination call with New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG & next steps - https://community.icann.org/display/CCT/Coordination+with+New+gTLD+Subsequent+Procedures+PDP+WG 

8. Preparing for Washington DC meeting – draft agenda 

9. A.O.B

Recording: 

• Adobe Connect
• MP3

Chat Transcript:  EN

Transcript:

Discussion documents:

• Applicant Support Program
• Application and Evaluation data - Brainstorming slides
• AE - Proposed Workplan v2
• Washington DC Meeting - Draft agenda

Notes: 

Presentation from Dennis Chang on outreach to Underserved Regions
Carlton Samuels to share thoughts on plenary call #11.

Studies & Surveys
- Flag any external data needs asap (FY16 deadline - June 30)
- Nielsen subteam will discuss most recent version of questionnaire on 19 May
- Data on 66 metrics already being collected. See https://www.icann.org/resources/reviews/cct/metrics

Competition, Consumer Choice
- Defer market definitions to plenary call #11
- Comments needed on list of topics https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J_3MOtzB-9Ow2-TeFsf19OoBQl1kP6e73kJKvDYW3Bk/edit

Safeguards & Trust
- DNS abuse report comment period ends on 20 May

Application & Evaluation Process
- Review sections of applicant guidebook and be prepared to discuss these sections.
- Look into:

• surveying the demands for new gTLDs in developing countries
• identifying what individual or entities we can survey to examine barriers to entry

- Consider studies we can formulate to guide our discussions on this topic
- Alice to update slide-deck

Report of New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG progress and leadership coordination call
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DC agenda
- Staff to prepare email with information on where data can be found on the wiki

AOB
Doodle poll on September meeting will be sent shortly