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[Barrack Otieno]

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Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Apply Now: Experts in
Consumer Protections, Economics and Security Needed for New gTLD
Program Review
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[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/>
News Alert

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-11-02-en

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Apply Now: Experts in Consumer Protections, Economics and Security
Needed for New gTLD Program Review

2 November 2015

ICANN today announced that it extended the application deadline for
participation on the community-based team that will review the New
gTLD Program in regard to competition, consumer trust and consumer
choice (CCT). Experts in consumer protections, economics and security
are highly desired, and geographic diversity will be taken into
account when selecting review team member. Any travel required will be
funded by ICANN. The deadline for expressing interest is 13 November
2013 at 11:59 UTC.

Apply Now!<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/call-volunteers-cct-rt-2015-10-01-en>

Participants selected as CCT Review Team members will pioneer an
ongoing effort to track and examine data about the domain name
industry and system. Their analysis of how new gTLDs are affecting the
market place and the Internet's root zone will impact future rounds of
the New gTLD Program through potential changes to policy. Enhancing
competition, choice and trust in the domain name space are key goals
of the New gTLD Program, and the Internet community has a vested
interest in determining whether new gTLDs have delivered on these
promises. CCT Review Team members will represent the broader community
in determining these conclusions.

Team members will be chosen in December 2015 and work is scheduled to
begin in January 2016. Participants are expected to work closely with
one another and there will be opportunities to network with other
fellow community members. The CCT Review Team will set its own
schedule for data collection, analysis and reporting, with the goal of
producing its final report by 31 December 2016.

The review of the New gTLD Program in regard to competition, consumer
trust and consumer choice is mandated by ICANN's Affirmation of
Commitments. The review team is tasked with examining "the extent to
which the introduction or expansion of gTLDs has promoted competition,
consumer trust and consumer choice, as well as effectiveness of (a)
the application and evaluation process, and (b) safeguards put in
place to mitigate issues involved in the introduction or expansion."
The team will consider multiple inputs in its deliberation, including
metrics recommended by the Internet community. ICANN has been
collecting data for those metrics and recently created a
webpage<https://www.icann.org/resources/reviews/cct/metrics> where
this information is displayed. Other metrics were captured in global
surveys of Internet users and domain name registrants, and through an
economic study.





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