New gTLDs: final guidebook expected before the end of 2009
During today's GNSO Council teleconference, ICANN Senior VP Kurt Pritz outlined the timetable he and the rest of the ICANN's new gTLD team are working on. In short, there is to be a 3rd version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG) in September and a final version before the end of the year.
There won't therefore be a 3rd DAG published before ICANN's next meeting in Sydney at the end of June, as had been previously expected. The reason is that work currently being done on the overarching issues identified by the Board in March at the Mexico meeting won't be completed in time to ready a new version of the DAG for Sydney. In particular, work on the trademark protection, root zone scaling and malicious conduct issues should be finishing around the Sydney meeting time.
However, ICANN is planning to publish a full analysis of the comments it received on the 2nd DAG in time for the Sydney meeting. A similar document was put out after the 1st DAG comment period in which ICANN gave detailed answers to the vast majority of points raised. For this second comment analysis, ICANN is planning to go a step further and include excerpts of the DAG with redline edits where appropriate.
ICANN is also planning a series of consultations, the first one in Sydney, then at least one in the USA and one in Europe, to discuss the next model of the guidebook. That's expected to be published in early September and followed by a comment period which would close after the Seoul meeting in October.
A final version of the Applicant Guidebook would then be okayed by the ICANN Board and published before the end of 2009.
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