NTEPPTF

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NTEPPTF

• New TLD Evaluation Process Planning Task Force
• Bucharest 2002

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Board resolution

• The NTEPPTF was chartered at the June 4, 2001
  meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors in
  Stockholm, Sweden
• The Board directs the President to form and chair
  a New TLD Evaluation Process Planning Task Force,
  for the purpose of recommending to the Board and
  the broader Internet community ()
• A plan for monitoring the introduction of new
  TLDs and for evaluating their performance and
  their impact on the performance of the DNS
• This assessment should focus in technical,
  business, and legal perspectives and rely on data
  gathered as part of the contractual arrangements
  with the new TLDs as well as other data inputs
  that can be readily secured
• A schedule on which a plan should be executed

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Members

• The following individuals who have graciously
  agreed to serve
• Stuart Lynn (chair)
• Jaap Akkerhuis
• Sebastien Bachollet
• Marilyn S Cade
• David R. Conrad
• Michael Heltzer
• Geoff Huston
• Roberto Laorden
• Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
• YJ Park
• Adrian Pinder (U.K. Gov) liaison between NTEPPTF
  and GAC

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Report of the NTEPPTF

• Final report (Draft) of the New TLD Evaluation
  Process Planning Task Force
• Posted 15 June 2002
• For community feedback and comment prior to
  finalization (before July 15, 2002)
• Submission to the ICANN Board of Directors

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Responsability limitation

• The Task Force was not chartered with conducting
  the actual evaluation itself, but rather
  developing a plan for the Boards considerations
  as to how such an evaluation should be conducted
• The Final Report should be read with this limited
  charter in mind

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Overview of the report

• Questions to be addressed in four Areas
• Technical
• Business
• Legal
• Process
• Guidance to Evaluation Team by Comments on each
  Question
• On-going Monitoring Program

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Resources vs Timescale

• The lack of resources compared with the magnitude
  of the work to be done could extend the timescale
  of the evaluation beyond what the community can
  reasonably be expected to tolerate
• The Board, therefore, may need to balance the
  need to make decisions sooner against the risks
  of not waiting for completion of the evaluation

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Priorities

• The Task Force established priorities
• Questions to be addressed early
• as a prerequisite to embarking on a another round
  of proposals for new gTLDs
• Priorities
• Criticality factor indicates when the Question
  must be answered
• Stage of activity to which they apply
  (pre-contract, start-up, or steady-state stage)
• sponsored or unsponsored new gTLDs

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Schedule and recommendations

• The Task Force established a schedule for
  accomplishing the most important parts of the
  evaluation
• Recommendations to the ICANN Board on how to
  proceed from here

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Priorities
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End and follow-up

• After the board decision (in July 2002) the work
  of the Task Force will be complete
• However, members of the Task Force stand willing
  to assist in whatever way the Board considers to
  be appropriate if and when the Board proceeds
  with the evaluation itself