Early GAC Engagement in GNSO and ccNSO PDPs - April 2015

The GAC-GNSO Consultation Group on GAC Early Engagement in Policy Development Processes is a joint effort by the GAC and the gNSO to explore ways of engaging the GAC early on in GNSO policy development activities.

Update on	Phase	Available in (pdf)	Background information
GNSO - IGO-INGO Curative Rights - April 2015	Step 4 - Working Group	العربية - April 2015 English - April 2015 Español - April 2015 français - April 2015 Português - April 2015 Pусский - April 2015 中文   - April 2015	Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) and International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) face particular challenges in using existing second-level curative rights mechanisms (i.e. UDRP and URS). For IGOs, these include questions of sovereign immunity. For both IGOs and INGOs, the current mechanisms are also premised on the ownership of trademark rights in the mark in question (in this case, the IGO/INGO’s name and acronym).
GNSO - Privacy and Proxy Services Accreditation Issues - April 2015	Step 4 - Working group	العربية - April 2015 English - April 2015 Español - April 2015 français - April 2015 Português - April 2015 Pусский - April 2015 中文 - April 2015	ICANN has in place an accreditation program for registrars and has committed to create an accreditation program for providers of Privacy and Proxy (P&P) services to gTLD domain names registrants. Privacy services publish a domain registrant’s name but keep contact details private; proxy services do not make publicly available any actual registrant information. Previous ICANN community work (including the WHOIS Review Team and the GNSO’s WHOIS Studies) has shown a lack of standard practices and rules in this area while identifying a number of needs to be addressed, ranging from law enforcement and IP owners to legitimate users of P&P services.
GNSO - Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information - April 2015	Step 4 - Working group	العربية - April 2015 English - April 2015 Español - April 2015 français - April 2015 Português - April 2015 Pусский - April 2015 中文 - April 2015	Contact information is usually submitted in local script(s) and language(s), which can make it difficult to contact a registrant, e.g. for law enforcement or intellectual property rights holders. On the other hand, translation and transliteration of gTLD contact information raises issues of cost, accuracy and effectiveness.
GNSO - Inter-Registrar Transfer PDP (IRTP) Part D - March 2015	Step 7 - Implementation	العربية - March 2015 English - March 2015 Español - March 2015 français - March 2015 Portuguese - March 2015 Pусский - March 2015 中文 - March 2015	The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Development Process (IRTP) provides a procedure for domain name holders to transfer their names from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another. Part D aims to help prevent fraudulent domain name transfers through recommendations on registrar  Transfer Dispute Resolution Procedures (TDRP) and reporting requirements, information resources on disputed transfers and potential remedies, and monitoring.
GNSO - IGO INGO - April 2015	Step 6 - Board Vote	العربية - April 2015 English - April 2015 Español - April 2015 français - April 2015 Português - April 2015 Pусский - April 2015 中文 - April 2015	The GAC has advised the Board to ensure the protection of IGO names and acronyms at the top and second levels in successive communiques, stating that implementation of such protection is in the public interest given that IGOs, as created by governments under international law, are objectively different right holders. While the GNSO PDP recommendations included certain reservations at the top and second levels, they did not recommend reserving IGO acronyms either at the top or second levels; instead the GNSO recommended that protection for IGO acronyms be achieved by way of claims notices via the Trademark Clearinghouse. It should be noted that the GNSO PDP concerns all gTLDs while the GAC advice concerns only new gTLDs.
GNSO - Thick WHOIS - April 2015	Step 7 - Implementation	العربية - April 2015 English - April 2015 Español - April 2015 français - April 2015 Português - April 2015 Pусский - April 2015 中文 - April 2015	The Thick Whois PDP recommendation being implemented will require that all gTLD registries publish and maintain registrant’s contact information, in addition to technical domain name information (“thin whois”).
GNSO - Inter-Registrar Transfer (IRTP) PDP Part C - April 2015	Step 7 - Implementation	العربية - April 2015 English - April 2015 Español - April 2015 français - April 2015 Português - April 2015 Pусский - April 2015 中文 - April 2015	http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/irtp-c
ccNSO - Framework of Interpretation - January 2015		العربية - Jan 2015 Español - Jan 2015 français - Jan 2015 Português - Jan 2015 Pусский - Jan 2015 中文 - Jan 2015	http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/foiwg.htm
Monthly Policy Update		https://www.icann.org/policy#updates	http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/update

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