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<h1><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">GNSO Policy & Implementation Working Group Publishes Initial Recommendations Report for Public Comment<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mainly as a result of discussions stemming from implementation related issues of the new generic Top-Level Doman (gTLD) program, there has been an increased focus
on which topics call for policy and which call for implementation work, including which processes should be used, at what time and how issues which are the subject of diverging opinions during the implementation process should be acted upon. Following several
discussions, including the publication of a staff discussion paper and a community session during the ICANN meeting in Beijing in April 2013, the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council decided in July 2013 to form a Working Group (WG) which was
tasked to provide the GNSO Council with a set of recommendations on a number of questions that specifically relate to policy and implementation in a GNSO context. The WG has now published its
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/policy-implementation/pi-wg-initial-recommendations-19jan15-en.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">Initial Recommendations Report</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
[PDF, 1.46 MB] for community input which can be provided either through input received via this public comment forum or via the following survey:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PI-InitialReport"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PI-InitialReport</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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