1. Text #ICANN49 Privacy & Proxy Accreditation Services Issues (PPSAI) Working Group Update

2. Text #ICANN49 Process Initial Activities Moving Forward

3. Text #ICANN49 ICANN Board approved new Registrar Accreditation Agreement in June 2013 RAA negotiations covered high-priority topics identified by community Sole issue outstanding after negotiations: use & accreditation of privacy & proxy services ICANN has committed to creating a privacy/proxy accreditation program 2013 RAA has temporary privacy/proxy specification – operates till 1/1/2017 or start of ICANN accreditation program Background

4. Text #ICANN49 Working Group (WG) Charter WG chartered by GNSO Council in Oct 2013 Tasked to develop recommendations on several categories of issues related to accreditation of P/P services, e.g.: - Maintenance - Registration - Relay & Reveal - Termination

5. Text #ICANN49 Organized GNSO questi0ns into groups Calls and email list systematically examining questions Requested input on Charter questions from all SO/AC/SG/Cs o Input received from BC, IPC & NCSG. May be more Sampled terms of P/P services affiliated with Registrars that have signed the 2013 RAA Heard presentations from staff and WG members about specialized expertise Initial Activities

6. Text #ICANN49 Moving Forward Continue to work systematically through all Charter questions – with preliminary conclusions recorded through templates to be reviewed prior to finalizing Initial Report Discuss/incorporate SO/AC/SG/C input received Review results of EWG P/P survey Reach out to the ccTLD community for its expertise on relevant matters Meet with SO/AC/SG/C groups as they request Target date for Initial Report – early 2015

7. Text #ICANN49 Further Information Information on RAA negotiations: https://community.icann.org/display/RAA/Negot iations+Between+ICANN+and+Registrars+to+A mend+the+Registrar+Accreditation+Agreement+ Concluded https://community.icann.org/display/RAA/Negot iations+Between+ICANN+and+Registrars+to+A mend+the+Registrar+Accreditation+Agreement+ Concluded New 2013 RAA: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/ra a/approved-with-specs-27jun13-en.htm#raa http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/ra a/approved-with-specs-27jun13-en.htm#raa WG Charter: http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/raa- pp-charter-22oct13-en.pdfhttp://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/raa- pp-charter-22oct13-en.pdf WG Workspace: https://community.icann.org/x/9iCfAg https://community.icann.org/x/9iCfAg

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