1. RrSG Working Groups Status Update James M. Bladel, GoDaddy.com Reston, VA Mar 2010

2. Active Working Groups Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP), Part B Post-Expiry Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Registration Abuse Policies (RAP) (Pre-PDP) PPSC-PDP Working Group

3. Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP-B) Charter Topics include: o Urgent Return / Undo o AC/Registrant conflict o Change of Registrant vs. IRTP o Lock Status Practices Analysis of Initial Comments and SG Statements, and presentation by Compliance Breakout Group to examine Urgent Return ideas Next Steps: Draft Interim Report, Measure Consensus,Make Recommendations.

4. Post-Expiry Domain Recovery (PEDNR) Charter Topics: o Registrants and adequate opportunity for post-expiry recovery. o Registrar Provisions for post-expiry recovery o Adequate notice of expiration o Whois Indications that a name is in ARGP o Transfers during RGP SG Statements received and discussed by the WG. Measurement of consensus / positions via Survey. Results published after Nairobi Next steps: ??

5. Registration Abuse Policies (RAP) (Pre-PDP) Charter: o Catalog and Define various abuse types o Propose recommendations, including calls for PDPs, Best Practices, Compliance Actions, etc. Initial Report published and open for comment thru Mar 28. Many topics have unanimous or near-unanimous support. o Two areas (Cybersquatting, Uniformity of Contracts) show at least two positions. Next Steps: Analyze Comments & SG positions, draft final report.

6. PPSC - PDP Working Group Part of the GNSO Improvements Effort Objective: Review and Revise the PDP process as defined in the By-Laws. Work divided in to Stages I -V. Team is currently finalizing Stage V. Interim Report to be published after Nairobi. Recommendations will be finalized and submitted to the PPSC