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2019-10-06 - CCT Review and Subsequent Rounds of New gTLDs
GAC Advice
2019-10-06 - CCT Review and Subsequent Rounds of New gTLDs
ICANN66 Montreal Communique
Consensus met
2019-10-06 - CCT Review and Subsequent Rounds of New gTLDs
a. The GAC advises the Board:
i. not to proceed with a new round of gTLDs until after the complete implementation of the recommendations in the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review that were identified as "prerequisites" or as "high priority".
Rationale
The Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review is the first completed Bylaw-mandated review after the IANA Stewardship Transition and serves as a vital accountability mechanism.
The review identified a number of issues that should be addressed, in areas such as the necessity and availability of data, including on costs and benefits, the effectiveness of safeguards, the promotion of consumer trust, the mitigation of DNS abuse and improved geographic representation of applicants. The review produced 35 consensus recommendations. It said that 14 of the recommendations must be implemented prior to the launch of subsequent procedures for new gTLDs ("prerequisites") and a further 10 recommendations ("high priority") should be implemented by 8th March 2020 (eighteen months after the issuance of the report).
It is particularly important that a new round of gTLDs should not be launched until after the successful implementation of those recommendations that were identified by the Review Team as necessary prior to any subsequent rounds of new gTLDs. It has been suggested that although some of the recommendations are for the Board to implement, other recommendations are for other parts of the community to implement. It would be helpful for the Board to monitor progress on all of the recommendations and support other parts of the community to implement the recommendations that are addressed to them.