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1. for example the EPP credentials there is a type on our side There s a possibility to repeat the test and it s not failed and you are out of the game 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN UNIDENTIFIED MALE CHRISTINE WILLETT ANTHONY CHRISTINE WILLET ANTHONY RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 32 of 51 Correct That s why we created that possibility to extend the session by a week so that those things could be remedies within the test window You ll get notification if we find them and questions will be asked and you ll have the opportunity to remedy the test Okay perfect Great Thank you had Anthony back in the queue Anyone else Reuben Thank you have a couple of questions First I m interested to hear about the book from Jeff Will these materials be made public Which materials The narrative questions that Jeff had to labor on For instance in the pre delegation testing self certification Are you talking about what is expected or are you talking about the responses provided by the applicant 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N ANTHONY RUSS WEINSTEIN ANTHONY RUSS WEINSTEIN ANTHONY Page 33 of 51 The responses Okay don t think we intended to make those public Okay Secondly this was something that had been spoken about by a number of pe2. Okay It s already documented and you will test all extensions between mentioning our applications Yes As far as know Sorry could add to that All the extensions needed for normal operations So if you require an extensions for a domain crate for example it must be specified in the material If you have optional extensions that you must not use may not You don t have to use it Of course we are not going to test it What is normal operation Is it sunrise normal operation or not No 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE Page 31 of 51 Last question I m not sure whether understand it The escrow provider is not tested You mentioned that is optional that you inaudible the data from the escrow provider Who decides whether you want to test it or not Is it my own decision inaudible here So you re talking about the release Yes the release That s exactly my question Okay yes It will be ICANN s decision when to test it So you flip a coin and say Here we will test it No it s a real question Sorry Yes For sure can tell you everything we see in inaudible we will do that escrow inaudible release Okay And the fourth question if there is a configuration mistake
3. re processing some requests within a week Others do take 4 6 8 weeks depending on the volume and the queue as well as the level of review that is required internally So that s the timing on the change requests And then PII let the team address the technical issue the technical question Francisco here So regarding the onsite audits should say that we don t expect this to be a common case We expect to do onsite audits only on exceptional cases where we something that is let s say not quite clear after several interactions with the provider and it doesn t look good let s say It s difficult to inaudible a specification of what it entails because it really depends on a case by case basis depending on what s the issue at hand So don t think we plan to police on this detail of specification on what the onsite audit will entail But of course we will follow what the Applicant Guidebook says regarding the onsite audit 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN SOPHIA RUSS WEINSTEIN SOPHIA CHRISTINE WILLETT JORDAN Page 24 of 51 One other thing might be able to add to that think if we determine that an onsite audit is necessary for that application we would prepare that applicant for what is of concern and why we think an audit is necessary Will there be also addressing a pilot a result where you communicate t
4. s the inaudible commands So you need to check that Some applicants have back ends that require manual confirmation on create domain create or contact create If you have that either you could white list the objects that will be created as part of the PDT or you could just respond promptly during the weeks of testing White gt o A Ai 3 B i BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N FREDERICK LJUNGGREN Page 10 of 51 listing is of course preferred if possible but there are scenarios with that may not be possible Next So for IDN as mentioned before the IDN tables as part of question 44 in the application are to be provided as machine perishable You could verify If you have the IDN tables in these two standard RVC formats you could verify them before submitting them They will not be automatically verified when you submit it There is a link here to a simple script that may be used to verify the tables Check that you are not have disallowed code points in your tables That will not fly and other things Basically sanity checks of IDN tables of course Next slide please Back to the self certification documentation among other things that should go into this is compliance with the SLA which is specification temp of the agreement Also it required to have made the load test of different parts of the system which includes both EPP and DNS So we recognize that these tests
5. RC 4290 or 3743 There are cases where those may not be applicable In such case you could use another text based format and provide some documentation how to parse that format and we would be happy to try to do that for you But if you can please use the standard format Other documentation such as the self certification the DNS practice statements and such as PDF only For nine servers we re checking everything according to DGB Before the test we recommend that you check connectivity thoroughly Make sure that all nine servers respond to both IPv4 and IPv6 UDP and TCP and various of course multiple tools available on the net for doing pre delegation for DNS in particular We recommend the DNS check by DNSSEC tool which has the pre delegation check which is check an undelegated domain You enter the IP address of at least one name server who do the check It is basically the tool It s not the only tool but it s one of the tools used by the PDT provider If you pass that you are in pretty good shape before gt o Ai 3 Oo BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 8 of 51 Also check the IANA technical requirements We ll check those as part of the PDT and it will be checked as well when you proceed to the actual delegation by IANA To get that just inaudible you can check it and they are downloadable think there is a link on the micro site but also from the IANA website We are
6. can find a lot of information on how to improve things Okay getting back to what Mats was talking about relative to the documentation that we re going to be that we can update we are actively updating it right now We re working to get it published on or before April 17 mid next week so that we can help the applicants all prepare We recognize things weren t as clear as we wanted them to be and we re trying to make that as best we can so that the testing goes smoothly think now we can open up for some question and answer time related to the material we presented saw a hand go up over here first Okay I m going to address I ll attempt to keep the queue see Amadeu Anthony Jeff Does it work Yes Thanks So you got the first question from a lawyer so be patient because just want to check something to see whether we have understood that 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLETT Page 14 of 51 Two basic questions One is about changes regarding the application One is about escrow Let s start with this one For the escrow you want to have not completely understood whether you want to just receive the deposit and check that we want to check that in the provider itself The other question guess is more for Christine We need to provide the agreement with this inaudible it has to satisfy the criteria in the inaudi
7. format of the deposit and the other is about testing the basically the escrow agent being able to release a deposit According the inaudible in the base agreement Anthony Thank you very much have two questions One is as a completely non technical person but think it may represent a question that other people might be confused about so l Il ask it Can you give me any kind of definition of what you mean by searchable WHOIS What does that include That is something that we have not actually discovered the definition for so clearly you can search by a domain name Do you mean partial matches do you mean sound x matches etc This is Francisco recognize that searchable WHOIS is not a term that you can easily define However if you go to a specification 4 of the base agreement specifically section 1 9 you have a definition of what are the fields that should be searchable inaudible there is no intention to offer a sound like partial march That s certainly not the intention But that describes the fields that should be searchable and what the results are expected to be gt Ai 3 gt BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N ANTHONY CHRISTINE WILLETT Page 18 of 51 My second question is for Christine think sensed that in Amadeu s silence which is of course completely unusual that if you were asking everyone to make lots and lots and lots and lots and tha
8. it lost it 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 43 of 51 Maybe a misunderstanding If you submit all six sets of documents does pre delegation testing start right away or does it wait until the end of the week and that s when the testing begins Let s start there Sure You re going to sign up for a testing window and the testing will begin as soon as your testing window occurs We re giving a week or possibly more We re still looking into do we give more than a weekly time for the data input But the testing won t occur until you re testing window because we have capacity constraints with the service provider That makes perfect sense understand that don t understand why once you submit a document you can t change it if it s just going to sit there in the queue for a week Yeah You can upload it Can you re upload it You can upload it And before you submit it you can make modifications It s a tw part process You upload review it make sure it s what you want then you go ahead and submit 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N JORDAN JACOB SCHLYTER JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN CHRISTINE WILLET MAXIMUS Page 44 of 51 Okay Even that don t why can t change it It s just s
9. may be disruptive to a system that is already in use But it s still supposed to be production systems which these tests are going to be performed in Of course it will be best to take if it s a DNS test for instance in an inaudible cloud you would take one node out of service perform the test on that one provided that that node is representative of the whole cloud of course and make sure you have something there 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 11 of 51 Also we recognize that some of these systems are completely new and it s quite hard to have a large track record In those cases you have to do the best you can especially on the beginning Yeah next slide please About the DPS most applicants have sent in a DPS which now in this version which is sent again should be the version that is in place for production And this time it also has to conform to RFC 6841 which basically means it has to follow that outline and the information should go into the right places The most important and most notable part of this is that it clearly describes the sign scheming used for this the critical control is for key management Please also don t forget to outline the outline publication mechanism for the DS record and possibly the DS records Also part of the PDT is a data escrow deposit sample which should be sent signed and encrypted to the PDT provider That
10. process will look like exactly But you don t fail out of your application You ll have an opportunity to retest Thanks Okay if there are no other questions just want to come back briefly to the change request issue You have a question A follow up question to Maximus question Retesting is this in one yea or is this one week later What is the timeframe for this We have capacity that we re reserving with the testing provider and based on the scheduling that s already occurred we ll try and get you back in the line as soon as we can But we don t want to bump someone we certainly wouldn t bump anyone that is ready for testing and is it s their first time and because an application didn t complete testing successfully Probably we have to get back in line whatever that line is 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLET RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 46 of 51 We do have flexible capacity that we can increase and we plan to increase from the start We re going to try and ramp up capacity so that more tests can be in the system at a time That is not a change request Let me just address the idea is that as applications have signed the registry agreement once you sign the registry agreement you will be eligible to schedule a slot for pre delegation testing Russ correct me if I m wrong here But you will be given the opportunit
11. testing Process Review E N AMADEU ABRIL I ABRIL CHRISTINE WILLETT JORDAN CHRISTINE WILLETT FRANCISCO ARIAS Page 16 of 51 Sorry Christine but for instance in the case that we have a new thing on top of what we have we will not be submitting the change request with this on exaggeration And we will just submit in what we have Now the concrete model of the concrete brand of the server do we understand that correctly Did you consider that s also something that should go through the change request The model of the server is don t believe we need it in part of the application l Il let you gentlemen address respond to this in a minute Yes if the application no longer represents your operational plans the Guidebook says that you need to submit a change request So we would expect to receive that change request Jordan did you have a comment on this particular data escrow No On this later point about system configurations relative to the application Okay Let me put you in the queue l Il go to Anthony next Christine do you want me to answer the question about the escrow the inaudible test 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLETT FRANCISCO ARIAS CHRISTINE WILLETT ANTHONY FRANCISCO ARIAS Page 17 of 51 Yes please Amadeu this is Francisco Data escrow is in fact two tests One is about the
12. the element for DNS Just one file is required for other elements than more files required In the bottom of this page you can see examples and also XML schema For DNS it s an XML file that is required We choose a file and then we do an upload We ve got a next slide This is what happens if you choose wrong type of file So if you upload something else a PDF file instead of XML file or if you upload an XML file that does not match the XML schema you get an error These are basic scans that are performed to avoid basic mistakes Next slide This is a successful uploading of file So we can see that a file has been uploaded You can download the file and look at it You can delete the file If you find that this is the wrong file and that is of course good to do to verify that it s the right file When you have concluded this is the right file for DNS You will click on Submit data Next slide please ae y B 2 Al 3 gt o BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 38 of 51 There is a verification because when you click Submit file you cannot change your mind So this is the end Then you have Submit the DNS data Before you submit you can change file if you find that it s wrong But we have verified here So we click on Submit Next slide please The DNS XML file is submitted You can still view it but you cannot change it On the next slide we can
13. waiting for the slides Thank you For DNS we have a requirement in the AGB for PDT to test all Anycast nodes or locations They must be declared and they will be tested They will be tested for protocol compliance and zone propagation delay We will not test any performance related parameters such as latency or query rate or such things due to how the Anycast network works The AGB actually requires the individual IP addresses of the instances We have expanded this and offered an opportunity to use query by proxy We recently published a documentation how that works It s basically a setup where you could relay all your questions for your Anycast locations through your management network or what have you and do possibly rate limitation and then forward them to the Anycast nodes if you seem fit We have seen both setups in the pilot We have applicants who have chosen to use direct queries and proxy and both seems to work just fine recommend you should read that document if you have any or contact us if you have any concerns The listed locations of Anycast nodes will be cross referenced with the application So make sure that the application is up to date or have a change request made So we ll basically inaudible check that it doesn t inaudible difference so you can report You can t have 150 Anycast locations in your application and then report five for PDT That will not be any good Next slide please gt o A
14. yourself that you will pass PDT smoothly Next slide please The PDT provider requires a set of data from you It s basically two parts One part is technical parameters for performing technical partly automated tests for DNS EPP and WHOIS The other set of data is the self certification documentation which you need to prepare For this there are templates available and you ll also find it at the micro site There are also examples there which you can use for making sure that the information is complete The parameters you are inaudible are first the technical parameters and we ve chosen to communicate that using XML and this is mainly because the parameters are usually created by someone maybe not Gal e 2 matt 2 Al 3 gt o BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 7 of 51 submitting the parameters themselves It could be DNS IP addresses It could be EPP commands with EPP extensions It could be WHOIS server parameters and such So those are provider as XML and the schemas are available on the micro site as well We urge you to verify all data and verify compliance with the schemas before you submit it The provider will check the schemas but verify it again anyway to be able to submit smoothly We have the IDN tables Part of the application IDN tables were submitted usually as PDF For the PDT we would like you to submit the IDN tables in machine readable format preferably the
15. BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review Wednesday April 10 2013 11 00 to 12 30 ICANN Beijing People s Republic of China UNIDENTIFIED MALE RUSS WEINSTEIN FREDERICK LJUNGGREN We re now beginning recording and streaming for the new gTLD pre delegation testing process review meeting Good morning If everyone could find seats and we can get started ina minute or so here Please come forward to the table if you plan on speaking asking questions Try and make it as intimate a session as we can Okay so we ll go ahead and get started The session is about pre delegation testing and a new acronym we ve coined PDT I m Russ Weinstein I m the ICANN panel coordination manager responsible for pre delegation testing I m on Christine Willett s new gTLD operations team and brought a team here with me to help present pre delegation testing And everyone introduce themselves Maybe we can start with Frederick Sure I m Frederick Ljunggren from Kirei We assist ICANN in developing the requirements for the PDT all based on the Applicant Guidebook of course Note The following is the output resulting from transcribing an audio file into a word text document Although the transcription is largely accurate in some cases may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages and grammatical corrections It is posted a
16. CANN always has a fear of providing information It was the same way the clarifying questions So if you guys can respond to that we d love some feedback Not publicly though You don t have to tell everyone else Sure Jeff Thanks for your questions can take the question related to PDT pilot feedback We re getting that on the Adobe chat as well We do intend to communicate back to the participants some feedback regarding their participation It won t be a complete all inclusive report that you would get as if you were in PDT production but we do intend to provide some feedback in the coming week or so We just got data reports from the provider and need to sort through them and understand them a little more so we can get information back to you gt o A Ai 3 B i BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLETT SOPHIA Page 22 of 51 guys But it s a good fair comment and we recognize it and definitely want to provide feedback so you can have successful testing And also want to acknowledge your point on the substantive substantial amount of information We ll discuss that as well So in the queue there is someone at the microphone Then I ve got Jordan I ve got Reuben s We ve got people on the Adobe And then I m so sorry Thank you Go right ahead This is Sophia inaudible There are two questions d like to ask you First is also about the chan
17. IJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N FRANCISCO ARIAS CHRISTINE WILLET JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 41 of 51 This is Francisco The only specification that is out there and the requirement were raised regarding WHOIS searchability inaudible specification for in section 1 9 recognize that not all the answers to the questions that are being asked here What is there is you go to section 1 9 6 it inaudible to implement appropriate measures to avoid abuse of this feature For example permitting access only to legitimate authorized users So if the question about Can you require login to use a searchable WHOIS Yes That will be a very good idea to do Also the second point is to ensure the feature is in compliance with any applicable privacy laws or polices think the answer here is we respect the individual rights to develop the policies to make sense in the right context to protect from abuse the searchable WHOIS Thank you Was that it for the queue Wendy Okay Jordan have a number of questions stemming from the demo or the screen shots that you guys just showed One sort of overriding thought is it would be really really really cool and incredibly helpful for a lot of people suspect if instead of having a unique login credential presume when say contact you mean per primary contact in TAS No An applicant s primary contact can declare a delegate specific
18. Tango Registry Systems and have three questions First for this elected pre delegation test operator SE the requirement was that the software which you will develop is open source which found a brilliant idea So that is open and transparent in the ICANN way Where can we download the software that we can do the inaudible test and then go to you and say test us Is there a link where we can download the open source software The requirement inaudible any software used and developed specifically for the PDT could be made open source and the intention being to make it available but there is no requirement to make it open source before PDT thought it s a must it s not a may If it s software developed specifically for we can go back to the specifications wrote them so think Okay In other words it s not available for us not at this time We re looking into it 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE KNIPP UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE Page 30 of 51 This would help you too because you have less work with inaudible so it s in both favors Next question is if an applicant has special EPP extensions which are needed for the operation will you test this too Yeah That is part of the EPP test and you specify in the data the extensions
19. Thank you We re going to have Reuben s then we ll have Sophia and then we will pause and go through the rest of the system demonstration Following up on inaudible comment just want to remark that inaudible not only EPP extensions that needs to be considered during EPP testing There are also some semantics that some applicants might have used This is our case We have specific semantics applied for contact ID So wonder if the test isn t too automated to escape such an interpretation of data and trying to put anything that is synthetically valued in a field that there is testing for semantic value Just a remark Thank you And Sophia 2 A Ai 3 J BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N SOPHIA CHRISTINE WILLET SOPHIA UNIDENTIFIED MALE CHRISTINE WILLET Page 35 of 51 My last question is if we change our data escrow providers which is different from what we stated in applications would that be a change of request Would that also lead to a reevaluation As mentioned since we don t have any approved data escrow providers currently anything would require a change The intention would not require reevaluation We want to make sure the point is that by the time we contract operationally that the registry operator is using an approved data escrow provider That s correct Also because in the pilot test that requires a submission of the data escrow contr
20. act and also in a real test there will be a real contract required But right now the data escrow agreement believe is not finalized yet How are we going to provide that Every data escrow we need to provide a template of the agreement We re going to validate that template So if you do the template of the data escrow agent that has been approved by ICANN for sure that agreement is going to be valid during PDT If you change the agreement significantly then it s possible that the agreement doesn t comply with what ICANN needs We will segue and continue with the system walkthrough 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N MATS DUFBERG Page 36 of 51 Thank you This part is targeted at those who will use the PDT system But of course others can get a picture of what the requirements are for data submission Next slide please We have set up a specific web based system for the applicants or backend providers to provide data and communicating with the PDT service provider Each contact has a login or gets a login when it s time for the PDT test Here is a screenshot of the login page You provide the e mail and password You will get information beforehand how to get your password Next slide please When you have logged in you will need the first page which looked like this I m sorry if they re no very sharp In the bottom you can see that the actual applications for this con
21. ally for pre delegation testing 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN JORDAN RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 42 of 51 You can have one login that gets delegated everything that uses the same backend Is that correct Sure If you wanted to Okay Great That s what was going to ask for I m so glad it exists guess related to that this may relate to the conversation earlier but to the extent it s possible to have a library of documents that you guys store online that you can reuse across multiple testing instances would be super helpful so you don t have to constantly re upload the same exact stuff over and over and over again My last question two quick questions One is I m a little baffled by the fact that you simultaneously once you submit data you can t edit it but at the same time if you submit all the data it doesn t seem like anything happens It just sits there for a week Is there a reason why both of those things are true or am misunderstanding that the data submission goes for a week and it goes faster if you submitted everything The library question think that s something we hope can look into We didn t envision the need for it but certainly it s something we can look into The upload is fairly quick but recognize it s a lot of clicks still With regards to the second point sorry Could you repeat
22. are of We need to come up with a provision on what we will do to support additional data escrow providers between now and later this month as hopefully we ll have some applicants going through pre delegation testing So acknowledge that We are working to have more data escrow providers approved through the application process But until we do have some approved providers we need to make some other statement of what data escrow providers will be accepted through the pre delegation testing That s item number one In terms of changes to the application and the infrastructure the Guidebook calls and specifies that changes to any part of the application which is no longer accurate should be made through a change request So it s very important that the change request if the infrastructure has changed that a change request be submitted and that it would be incorporated into the application If as you said you already have applications which have successfully passed initial evaluation as mentioned on Monday change requests in that situation would be considered and looked at at the time of contracting and the application would be amended that content and that content change would be assessed during the contracting phase That would be important that we get that changed so that the changes to the infrastructure can be passed along to the pre delegation testing vendor 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation
23. ble certification program that ICANN has started But this is somehow out of our control Is ICANN an escrow provider how will we know before the test And we have number 6 and 9 in the draw which means first week for us How will we know Is ICANN really have a past with some of these providers so we are sure that this is inaudible What happens to the applicant if the problem arises with escrow provider and ICANN are still stuck there The other question regarding the changes Our applications are more than one year old because we completed that before April 12 For instance we described some hardware for the WHOIS Some of these hardware might be obsolete by now How to replace guess that this is not a real problem There s a different model for the hardware But what about for instance DNS We have it For instance new server on several locations Do you want to test the ones that were in duplication or what we have now that may have evolved a little bit Thank you Amadeu will attempt to answer both questions and then l Il let the technical team add to that In terms of data escrow providers acknowledge we do not have any approved data escrow providers gt o A Ai 3 B i BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 15 of 51 based on the criteria we published in the applications we published about a month ago We do have we are in recede of at least one application I m aw
24. e There should be some way instead of asking re asking the same questions that are already answered in the Guidebook or that are already answered unless there is a change you really shouldn t have to re answer the same question and do a cut and paste into every single self certification So don t know if there s any way that you can go back and somehow you either provide those answers directly to the provider and not have 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 21 of 51 us fill it out again It really does cause it s a lot of work as for the ones that have gone through it Then my last comment is on the pilot itself I m glad that you all thought it was a success and m glad that it helped you As a participant it didn t help us one bit at all Yeah we got access to some of the documents but we ve got zero feedback from anybody on what happened and think that since you did select all of the providers or at least they re representative of all of the providers in your test that we would really like the feedback on how we did what we did what we did wrong what we did right because think normally a beta or a pilot program usually works in two directions There s usually an incentive for both parties to participate I m not blaming the provider at all on this think this is view this more of an ICANN issue because I
25. e tool the messaging tool in the pre delegation testing system Primarily we re seeing two types of questions There will be questions about the input data issues with it being complete or fully accurate and those are slated to be issued by the end of the first week And then there may be connectivity or minor protocol type of questions that are occurring while the automated tests are trying to be performed and those need to be resolved within the testing window So to help you guys prepare you need to have somewhat stand by support It doesn t A on a eo Ik IENE BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N FREDERICK LJUNGGREN JACOB SCHLYTER Page 6 of 51 need to be 24 hour by any means but be able to respond to these questions as quickly as possible to facilitate successful testing I ll then pass it over to Jacob and Frederick think Frederick was going to kick it off Thank you Russ First slide please Thanks So production ready what that actually means is that we re going to prepare the pre delegation testing on the actual production system So the PDT is actually quite comprehensive set of tests All the tests are published at the PDT micro site so that you can download them you can check out exactly what each test is about the expected outcome of it So we would really recommend you to take a close look at that and prepare for those tests Check check again test
26. e we see that the participants in the pilot have not fully understood the instructions We can improve the templates with more explanations We can have more examples of filled in data with increased variation We can have more how tos of how to test the system so you can test your system yourself We also see more need of communication between the applicants or the backend providers and the PDT service provider And therefore we will provide more service hours support hours when we are available to answer e mails and messages and communication with you Next Slide There are also some observations of what we see that you can do You can ensure that the PDT system or the PDT service provider gets all the required credentials for logging into the EPP system Also ensure that your systems and firewalls are open for all the PDT test nodes As you saw on the previous slide there are five test nodes that gt o Ai 3 Oo BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN CHRISTINE WILLETT AMADEU ABRIL ABRIL Page 13 of 51 we use We use all five so meaning that not just one of the five to a certain system but all five So we go from all five of them Check that your EPP system really is a fully EPP compliant system When you fill the document s template in keep all the headers in the template That makes things better and easier And then finally that we have created an FAQ where you
27. egation testing Pilot For those of you who don t know we recently conducted and concluded a PDT Pilot and we consider it a success We learned a great deal and so we wanted to share what transpired in the pilot and what we learned from it and what we re doing to make the production even more beneficial and successful to the applicants At that point we ll take some time for a Q amp A After a lot of contents presented we ll do some Q amp A and then if there s time we ll get back into a little bit of tutorial on pre delegation testing in terms of we ll give you some preview of what the system looks like that you ll be interacting with and Mats will take you through that And l Il wrap up with some resources and information that are available to you now and what will be coming forth in the coming days wanted to give everyone perspective on where we re at when we talk about pre delegation testing When you enter pre delegation testing that means you ve passed evaluation the initial evaluation or extended evaluation You ve signed a registry agreement with ICANN and now you re ready for pre delegation testing Assuming your system is production ready your infrastructure is all production ready and my friends here at Kirei will tell you more about what production ready systems mean in their section 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 4 of 51 What is pre dele
28. f 51 to require reevaluation Clearly ICANN staffare not doing any evaluation work All of that is outsourced realize and recognize that these change requests are challenging for us in terms of how we process them But my caution here is if what I m hearing is that your application is currently submitted and published no longer represents what you intend to operate then there s a problem and I m not quite sure how we close that gap We can continue to have a sidebar on change requests How about if we come back to change requests at the end and let s go through the technical material and content But I m happy to entertain the conversation about change requests separately Jeff you are next Well my first comment was on change request sorry Yeah think Christine think you will need to go back and consider the ramifications of what you re asking for Nobody here is talking about substantially changing their application You change an IP address here or there You add servers in different locations That s not change request materials You don t want that We re not going to do it And frankly we re not going to wait 8 10 weeks for you guys to evaluate that or even process it It takes a long time to get our change request through as you know You don t do that after the fact that Once your registry is up and running there is you do not have to go through any process to actually change a server
29. gation testing It s a verification step It s to ensure the registry system is ready for production delegation into the root zone It s partially a manual review of documentation as well as system testing to ensure the systems are working as expected and there s the five key elements DNS WHOIS EPP data escrow and if applicable IDN All we want to convey here on this slide is that the applicant systems when we tested from all of the nodes and we published where the IP address is from each of those nodes are published in the FAQ document that s available on the PTD micro site in the resources section so you need to prepare your system to accept traffic from those nodes want to talk about the process a little bit here like mentioned We haven t talked too much about the process up until this point So first there will be preparation activities Once you ve completed a registry agreement with ICANN you ll get notification that you re now ready to enter into pre delegation testing and you can set up a test appointment with ICANN and you can identify pre delegation point of contact both with ICANN through our CRM tool We recognize that most of the primary contacts may not be the right person to lead your application through pre delegation testing So we wanted to create a delegate so to speak someone who s comfortable and familiar with the registry systems and registry services and the technical infrastructure of your
30. ge of request want to know what exactly do you mean on material changes If there s any specification that there are some change that would change the evaluation Do we need to doa reevaluation based on those changes Can you list it What specific requirement for those items And also I d like to know the timelines for the change of request and if we submit a change of request now when will we get a response on what to do next And also second question would be for the onsite audit how to prepare for the onsite audit and what are the testing items for that Because according to the self certification document according to AGB and other onsite items will be listed in the certification documents But there s any additional audit we don t And if you can expand that will be good 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLET FRANCISCO ARIAS Page 23 of 51 So in terms of change requests would refer to the Guidebook about the language regarding any the types of changes necessary to the application that would require a change request agree think we need to provide a little more clarity on IP addresses etc But am not prepared what need to say clearly is that if your application no longer represents your operational plans then would expect you to submit a change request to process that Depending on the types of change requests we
31. i 3 Oo BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 9 of 51 For WHOIS we look at reachability You should verify that Whois nic tld responds to WHOIS to HTTP port 80 and optionally port 403 both IPv4 and IPv6 One should note that the host name Whois nic tld is required by the specifications Also that nic tld must be delegated from inaudible You cannot have any record for Whois nic tld in the zone itself It s not allowed by the AGB Also check the new gTLD agreement specification 4 for data formats Use standard keywords where applicable Check formats of dates and phone numbers Don t forget the legal disclaimer Also if you have claimed and asserted that you will provide a searchable WHOIS in your application you ve got extra scoring for that during IE and we will check that you actually provided and that it works as required It s good to provide some sort of link to the searchable WHOIS from the main WHOIS site so we are able to the PDT provider are able to find it We ve seen examples of that in pilot Yes next slide For EPP of course verify that the PDT service provider are allowed to connect to the EPP server This may sound very basic but we ve seen cases where this is not the case In the XML schemas where you describe how one should create hosts and domains make sure you have to have all the required extensions declared The schema is used to communicate exactly what
32. ial change because some of the examples that we provide were voluntarily trivial like you got a new IP address somewhere which doesn t affect anything materially So if you prefer having obsolete technology because my computer broke and Apple doesn t make it anymore have a better model with more inaudible couldn t because then I ll be violating my application as you describe it have to file a change request 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLET RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 51 of 51 When other people are changing from exclusive use TLDs to open and nothing happens or changing even the string because they said there was a typo And nothing happens ICANN staff has changed it everything in the Guidebook several number of times like when inaudible happens when the objections have to be filed for good reasons sincerely ask you to have a dose of realism on what s material It s not lying to you It s saying evolution exists and sometimes there are some times we improve things The example gave you we added something But you got the same Do you want the truth or do you want the material thing that we described that is not as good one year ago And we passed We can lie to you if you prefer Apparently you prefer that Clearly don t think that that is the case Based on the Guidebook it s very clear that any changes ICANN should be not
33. ified of any changes will take an action to provide clarity on how different types of changes will be handled through the evaluation process l Il turn it back to Russ as we conclude Okay I think that is the conclusion of the pre delegation testing session appreciate your attendance If you have any more questions l Il be around for a few minutes as well as through the rest of the week Certainly questions please send them through the ICANN CSC the new gTLD Customer Service Center and we ll get them answered as quickly as we possibly can Thank you very much 2 A AR gt J r
34. itting there in the system for several days after uploaded it Why can t change it This is Jacob could add to this Once you submit data it s actually transferred from the data entry system into another system It s for security reasons It will not set outside the testing the inside parameter of the testing system once you ve submitted it So it s basically transferred away And you re marked at you re done with it Right But there s no way to if you realize three days later that Oops I ve uploaded the wrong data is there a way to submit a new file would contact use the messaging tool Let us know what happened think the backend they d be able to reopen it for you Try and discourage that behavior if we can We have another question Maximus inaudible What is the procedure following the failure of the test What happens then 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN MAXIMUS CHRISTINE WILLET UNIDENTIFIED MALE RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 45 of 51 Sure Good question We haven t addressed this one yet If you fail PDT you do not fail out of the application process You ll be contacted to reschedule your test depending on the severity of the failure If it was something that looks minor we might be able to get it reopened right away We re still looking into what is going to trigger a fail and what that
35. key is available on the micro site and also in the PDT system Those files are used for verifying the data escrow formats basically And please check the AGB for the requirements there There is also an optional test which will be performed of the data escrow agent service which is a complete release The release will be checked against the test which has been made possibly just a few days before basically making sure that everything is in there and it seemed to work So what you need to do is to ensure that your data escrow agent is ready and you re actually also depositing data to that one There will be no separate key exchange for that They will be using the inaudible for the encryption of that gt o Ai 3 Oo BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N MATS DUFBERG Page 12 of 51 Thank you very much for coming here want to share some experience of the pilot test that we performed Next slide please First of all we want to thank all the applicants and backend providers that participated in the pilot Your participation was very valuable for us The most important outcome of the pilot was the confirmation that the system and routines that we have constructed for the PDT tests actually work But of course there are some things that we can see that we can improve Next slide please We see that we can have better instructions or even better instructions We can improve clarity and details wher
36. l So we don t anticipate that we need anymore information We read quite amount of inaudible and don t see the need for don t think the information think you were saying if you could clarify more don t know yet We ll see when we go through the process We haven t seen anything missing in the pilots and inaudible suspect our applications don t look very much like the applications you ve seen in the pilot We can take a look afterwards 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N JORDAN FRANCISCO ARIAS CHRISTINE WILLETT REUBEN FRANCISCO ARIAS REUBEN FRANCISCO ARIAS Page 26 of 51 Sure A second question then is with regards to I m just trying to understand the load testing on the DNS Are you saying if say we have some sort of Anycast constellation let s say don t know 500 servers or something like that that when we say that we re load testing it we test one of them and then we multiply it by 500 and we say that s the capacity of the constellation Yes Thank you Jordan Reuben had in the queue Then we re going to go to the Adobe Connect room inaudible dot br have a few questions The first probably better targets to Francisco What about Trademark Clearing House testing for the delegation haven t seen it so where is it or there is none So that s easy There is n
37. ng it And then we have the queue Wendy 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N WENDY UNIDENTIFIED MALE WENDY UNIDENTIFIED MALE WENDY CHRISTINE WILLET Page 28 of 51 have two questions from the queue The first one is from Andrew Sullivan I still don t completely understand why more support hours are needed to support testees That sounds like the test is not well enough to find which seems consistent with what others are saying Can someone say more about this Sometimes simple questions come in from applicants that we could by just a short answer help the applicant And by having extended hours we could cover the hours of other people We work in different time zones so instead of waiting one day the next business day for the answer that answer could come the same business day That s a reason why we need extended support hours The next question is from initials XJF Is the performance test for the EPP and WHOIS system involved in PDT Pre delegation testing Sorry Well it s part of the self certification documentation but the PDT provider will not perform those tests Thank you Thank you And the next question 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N KNIPP FRANCISCO ARIAS UNIDENTIFIED MALE KNIPP UNIDENTIFIED MALE Page 29 of 51 inaudible from
38. ng the evaluation process information previously submitted by an applicant becomes untrue or inaccurate the applicant must promptly notify ICANN via submission of the appropriate forms This includes applicant s specific information such as changes in financial position and changes of ownership or control of the applicant ICANN reserves the right to require a reevaluation of the application in the event of a material change This could involve additional fees or evaluation in a subsequent application round Failure to notify ICANN of any change in circumstances that would render any information provided in the application false or misleading may result in denial of the application Given this background want to acknowledge and state that we need to provide the applicant group community more information on how change requests will be processed as we have more applications moving through initial evaluation contracting entity gt o Ai 3 Oo BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N ANTHONY CHRISTINE WILLET ANTHONY CHRISTINE WILLET ANTHONY CHRISTINE WILLET ANTHONY Page 49 of 51 Thank you for reading that When does the evaluation period end Because the way heard what you said is once that ends you don t have to submit any change requests or inform ICANN of changes It says If at any time during the evaluation process Right When does that process end What
39. o the pilot applicant Correct Yeah don t think we saw anything in the pilot that would trigger an onsite audit Is that what your question was Yeah Yeah That s my question Okay All right thanks Thank you Sophia Next have Jordan A sort of concern and a question think I m worried about the way we re dealing with application information relative to the testing or this evaluation process in an opposite way that almost everyone else is don t think our application materials provide the level of specificity that folks here seem to be talking about And know that in some cases they pass initial evaluation so they re good enough But certainly things like server platforms specific IP 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N FRANCISCO ARIAS UNIDENTIFIED MALE UNIDENTIFIED MALE FRANCISCO ARIAS Page 25 of 51 addresses and so on aren t specified in the application on purpose precisely so we don t have to submit change requests all the time Is there any comment on what you guys will do when the application isn t as specific as what you seem to be looking for when comparing application materials to implementation The information needed for PDT is the parameters that we accept as part of the input We don t actually need more technical parameters to do PDT The documentation review is to check the application and the submitted materia
40. one However having said that No problem inaudible However as has been mentioned before in other sessions and there is tomorrow sessions specifically on Trademarking House ERD 2 Al 3 gt o BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N REUBEN JACOB SCHLYTER REUBEN JACOB SCHLYTER CHRISTINE WILLETT Page 27 of 51 they inaudible can interact with the clearing house and prepare their systems before they collide don t have the details available right now but if you go to the session tomorrow you will see this Okay Second question is to Dr inaudible Is it possible to provide pre delegation testing excluding the load test but can the functionality tests be self performed by the applicant Not using a book telling how to test but seeing an actual test interface especially for the EPP interface because you have DNS check but it would be nice to test the interface for compliance ourselves before scheduling the PDT test Is it possible In one of my slides referred to how tos describing how to test your EPP system Yourself It s part of that It s more than how to It s actual test tool Right now cannot promise that we can make that available because there are so many inter dependencies But we will try to provide tools to make it possible to test EPP system yourself inaudible We will look into the problem Thank you for mentioni
41. ople and don t know if there was a determination pardon me if there has been and I ve missed it but where you have a number of applications using exactly the same backend are you still planning to test those individually or test them once or test them a couple of times Can you explain that please Just like initial evaluation every application will go through the full process so every application will be tested individually You can use the same point of contact and that point of contact can have existing credentials in the system that allow them to manage multiple applications at a time Does that help Slightly If there are substantial questions to be answered in a narrative fashion as Jeff suggested is this going to be done through a TAS like interface such that we need to have numbers of people waiting for the system to update a long time or do we send you a PDF How is this managed 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN ANTHONY CHRISTINE WILLETT REUBEN CHRISTINE WILLET Page 34 of 51 The self certification So think if there s questions on the self certification we could reopen that data entry area where the data could be resubmitted In just a few minutes actually we ll take you through some screenshots demo So it s a good segue for us so you can get a little bit of look and feel of what the system looks like
42. out or do any of that stuff So would strongly advise that if someone passes the application or the evaluation and Gal e 2 matt 2 Al 3 gt o BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 20 of 51 signs and goes to contract unless it substantially changes what they do there should be no change request filed My other comment before that was on the self certification Just for everyone s knowledge you kind of went through fairly quickly But don t think people here realize that it s like a book It s not like a simple piece of paper that you check off yes yes yes Sign your name This is actually quite substantial There are a lot of narrative questions I ll give you an example Please describe think it was up there Please describe how you mitigate denial of service to tax distributed denial of service to tax and provided a narrative description of all of your controls No mistake about it it s a book It s a lot a lot of description And frankly one of the concerns we were a pilot participant Sorry my name is Jeff Newman with Newstar We were a pilot participant We did not do everything in the pilot because frankly the amount of time offered was nearly and you guys realize this it was not merely enough time once the specifications and things came out to actually go through all of it But the self certification is really a nightmar
43. registry so they can lead you through pre delegation testing successfully You ll then once you have a test appointment established you ll be able to submit the input data required into the system in the pre gt o Ai 3 Oo BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 5 of 51 delegation system That needs to be completed before the testing appointment The testing appointment is expected to be two weeks a two week span But we created a process where you can extend that by a week to allow for any areas to be remedied We really want to make sure that small things could be corrected in that three week window to allow for more applicants to succeed at pre delegation testing We didn t want to be failing applicants for minor problems with the system or with the connectivity and things so we created a process where if remedy needs to occur there s a time slot in there for remedy to occur Then ICANN will deliver the results to the primary contact of the applicant We expect that to take roughly two to three weeks We re working to get it as tight as we can But roughly two to three weeks after the conclusion of your testing window Like mentioned there might be situations where there s information that needs remedy before all the testing can be completed So we ve created a process follow up questions These questions will come to the pre delegation testing contact through th
44. s an aid to the original audio file but should not be treated as an authoritative record BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N JACOB SCHLYTER FRANCISCO ARIAS MATS DUFBERG DANNY AERTS CHRISTINE WILLETT RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 2 of 51 I m Jacob Schlyter of Kirei working together with Frederick assisting ICANN Francisco Arias ICANN technical staff inaudible for this pre delegation testing I m Mats Dufberg of dot SE Dot SE is the PDT service provider And my name is Danny Aerts from SE And I m Christine Willett from ICANN Great The goal of this session is to give applicants more information about pre delegation testing to help them prepare for pre delegation testing Thank you everyone for coming We hope this session is beneficial to everyone So l Il walk you through the agenda we have here I m going to give an intro an overview of pre delegation testing introduce the process We know we haven t revealed that much about the process of pre delegation testing before so this is a little bit of unveiling of that 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 3 of 51 And then Jacob and Frederick will take us through some of the technical aspects of how to prepare for a successful pre delegation testing experience Mats from the service provider he will provide some lessons learned from the pre del
45. see the elements again And now you can see that DNS has changed from red to green DNS data is submitted and what you are expected now to do is to submit data for the other five elements which will not show here But it s the same procedure as with the DNS file Next slide When the submission period has ended you get one week to submit data when that period ends the PDT service provider will pick up the application and put it into review Then the status will change to Review You can see that we have picked up the data and begun to review the data When we start actual testing you can see that the status changes to Testing In this way you can follow what s happening with your application We have talked a lot about the data that is needed to be uploaded submitted and we cannot perform the PDT test without these files Next slide We have also talked about communication Within the same tool you can send messages and questions to us and we can reply to you We can also send questions to you You can read and write through this tool 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N RUSS WEINSTEIN Page 39 of 51 When there is a new message for you you will get a notification through the contact e mail There will be an updated user manual for this PDT system for you to look at with the screen shots Thank you Mats for taking us through that Hopefully that
46. st to clarify and I m getting into lawyer territory which is not mine But it says that it s up to delegation so you have 12 months from effective date of signing until you have requested delegation or something like that and there is also provision to request an additional 12 months extension to ICANN Thank you Mike How many tests will you do per week Right now we have capacity for 20 tests per week and we have the ability to ramp that up and increase that as required and as we have more applications to the process We have that ability Are you going to revisit the thousand per year delegation limit 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLET Page 48 of 51 IANA in partnership with NTIA and VeriSign will definitely be considering that issue Just briefly change requests section 1 2 7 of Guidebook Notice of Changes to Information recognize that we need more clarity ICANN needs to provide more clarity about the types of changes and how we will process those changes and how those changes will be processed prior to conclusion of initial evaluation at contracting and beyond think it was Jeff Newman who made the point once here in operational registry these changes wouldn t ICANN wouldn t be notified of a lot of these changes But it is called in the Guidebook So section 1 2 7 says that ll just read it verbatim If at any time duri
47. t is what you re asking of changes to their application you re going to be flooded That s one thing The second thing is that if indeed you have passed initial evaluation and then you have the changes and that will be dealt with in contracting are you actually setting up a secondary review of the application A secondary evaluation of the application Does this mean that you might then fail the application prior to contracting Could you address that please Thank you Thank you for the question Anthony think this is a complex issue The applications have been published for some time and we re aware that plans operational plans may have changed in the last nine months and going ahead The Guidebook is quite clear that changes to the plans when the application no longer represents the operational plans that change requests are expected to be submitted believe we ve already received over 600 change requests which are beyond what we expected and am not looking forward to a flood of additional change requests The Guidebook is also clear in that a change request could be determined to require reevaluation or evaluation in a future round If we re talking about server configuration that does not substantially or materially change the operation of the registry then wouldn t expect it 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N JEFF NEWMAN Page 19 o
48. the top of your questions before you re engaged in the pre delegation testing process please route all questions through ICANN Use the CSC tool As of next week it will be Sales Force platform based But please encourage you to contact ICANN not contact a service provider The service provider is meant to only be handling questions during active testing They re not a general PDT help desk situation So direct your questions to us We ll get them answered as soon as we possibly can and get you guys thorough answers We recognize there probably are a lot of questions still out there As mentioned earlier in the presentation we published a query by proxy approach document that s an alternative to the DNS testing So if you have any concerns about the DNS testing the way it was originally articulated please review that and maybe that s an option for you With that think we can open it back up for question and answer if there s more We got a couple in the queue Then we have Jordan This question is from Andy Regarding searchable WHOIS what can we do to limit the number of results in the searchable WHOIS Is there an established threshold Example the first 30 results What if someone searches for all domains beginning with A and then B etc can we require that a user create an account then login for searchable WHOIS If so are there policies that specify when we can deny an account 2 A AR gt J r BE
49. tract and you can see that this contract has two applications One in the bottom it says Done That means an application which has already gone through the entire PDT process But when you the first time meet this there will be application in the top ready for submission If you can erase the green arrow Who controls that There Here is one application ready for submission Of course they could be multiple Then in the bottom is list applications as a link below the Done If you click that we come to the next slide please Here again the applications are listed with more details and in the top ongoing applications there is one which has the status ready for submission 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N Page 37 of 51 Also if we can click on the view link we get to the next slide Here we see one application which is ready for submission which means ready for data submission which is the first step in the PDT process On the right side we see the six elements of data that is required for submission So there are six data sets data escrow data DNS data documentation EPP data IDN data and WHOIS data You have to go through all the six elements and submit data will show DNS as an example To the right of incomplete there is a view link we click that link and come to the next one Here we can upload files or file files depending on
50. was helpful to everybody wanted to just highlight some resources we have available now and that like mentioned earlier we ll be updating in the coming week and a half or so here a week guess now April 17 is our target date for all these things But they re on the pre delegation testing page within the micro site If you haven t been there encourage you to check it out There s news about pre delegation testing that s going on up there and then we are posting all of the resources that you would need to help prepare yourself for pre delegation testing We have the test specifications published there They re all in draft format right now They were used for the pilot As mentioned we were working to get those updated and finalized instructions for data preparation It s a zip file that also contains not only a narrative but also templates and examples And those are being improved and updated Recently believe it was mid last week or so we published an FAQ document first version of it to try and stem some of the questions that are coming in Please read it think it s pretty informative We certainly recognize there are more questions to be answered in that document and so we re going to be working to publish more versions as necessary and as we see them come in 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLET WENDY Page 40 of 51 On
51. would your position be Anthony After initial evaluation think that could be a reading of this Again I m not a lawyer You guys know I m not a lawyer So l Il let the others in ICANN interpret this But yes if you successfully complete initial evaluation and you re not seeking now if you re seeking community priority evaluation you re still in evaluation So think that there are other phases of activity and beyond initial evaluation think there needs to be more interpretation of that actually have a way for us to solve all this 2 A AR gt J r BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N CHRISTINE WILLET ANTHONY UNIDENTIFIED MALE CHRISTINE WILLET AMADEU Page 50 of 51 I m all ears Well apparently Google has submitted applications that passed but not very specific about all this information that we would need to change so if Google were interested you could just let us have your application We could copy it and then it will all be very vague and there will be no problem Anyone that would like to use our registry platform is welcome to talk to me about that Amadeu we ve got one last question here and then we ve got two minutes So we ll take Amadeu s question It s not a question It s a request Christine You said that you need to provide more clarity on the change request process No You need to provide more clarity on what is a mater
52. y to schedule either the next available pre delegation test slot or the next available slot after a date which you specify So if you know you re not you may sign a contract on May 1 but you know you re not going to be ready for pre delegation testing until June uy 1 you can elect to say I m opting in for the next pre delegation slot available after June 1 Again this will be based on priority order applications through the contracting process through every phase of the program are processed in priority order So those slots will then be assigned at a weekly basis based on priority number Again if you fail pre delegation testing you will then be given an opportunity to reschedule the next round of pre delegation testing based on what s available again the first available or after a certain date again based on your priority order Yeah Christine You got that right There is one thing applicants should be aware of in the registry agreement believe there s a clause about ae y B 2 Al 3 gt o BEIJING New gTLD pre delegation testing Process Review E N FRANCISCO ARIAS CHRISTINE WILLET MIKE CHRISTINE WILLET MIKE Page 47 of 51 when pre delegation testing must occur think it s time limited think it s currently 12 months from the time you sign a contract to when you enter into pre delegation testing So just keep that in mind when you re looking to schedule Ju
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