RUSS WEINSTEIN - ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires
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1. question of the original application Will that be public Their responses or what s being clarified Consistent with initial evaluation it will be it will not actually be published Page 6 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N ANDREW MERRIAM STEVE CHAN ANDREW MERRIAM STEVE CHAN ANDREW MERRIAM URS AROS IGANN 15 Will not be published It will not be published mean the original application was published so it seems that if significant change involved publishing it might be relevant So as was indicated in the slide the CQ process is not intended to allow significant change to the application It s supposed to be a clarification literally a clarification Thanks Hi this is Urs Aros phonetic for InterNetX an applicant for new gTLDs which are in contention sets with some community applications have a question concerning the notification and the comments How is the notification of the other applicants going to take place Is it going to be a letter Is it going to be electronic notification Page 7 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N STEVE CHAN URS AROS STEVE CHAN URS AROS STEVE CHAN IGANN 15 So the notification to the other applicant in the contention set they ll2. And with the first auction events being held in early March in the March time frame of 2014 And now I ll let Larry introduce Power Auctions So thanks Russ We re a specialty provider of auction design auction software and auction manager services We operate Closer We operate in a variety of sectors including telecommunication spectrum That is we auction licenses for cell phone service We do electricity We do natural gas We do diamonds We ve never done new gTLDs before but we are familiar with doing extremely novel subject matter So for half a century the U S government has auctioned offshore oil leases Recently Power Auctions designed an auction for offshore wind energy tracts and we conducted the first two auctions this year Our current notable auctions include the Australian digital dividend auction This was in April and May of this year It raised about 2 billion in revenues We re also going to be designing we ve designed and will be operating the Canadian 700 megahertz spectrum auction early next year That s of a similar scale Page 25 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 In all we ve done more than 150 high stakes auctions on our software platform since 2001 think we re unique among auction providers in that we ve conducted auctions for clients and wi
3. Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N CHRISTINE WILLETT RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 Russ has answered that All right So now we re going to get back to new gTLD auctions So I m going to talk through readiness status process and timeline and then I ll hand it over to Larry to talk through the explanation of an ascending clock auction in a little bit more visual fashion than was able to in the last Webinar and as well as a screen shot demonstration of the auction system that we ll be using And then I ll bring it back to the topics of discussion that presented at the last Webinar So as we said Power Auctions is the auction manager and they re helping us with auction design customized software solution to execute the auctions and overall auctions operations management On November 1st we published the preliminary auction rules You can find those on the microsite And on November 7th we held a Webinar focused on auctions So much of the content in my presentation will come from that but hoping for more discussion at the end We plan to publish the bidder agreement in mid December That s our target and we re tracking well to that And we believe Page 24 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N LARRY AUSUBEL IGANN 15 in early 2014 we can begin notifying applicants of intent to auction
4. who are you talking about being accountable think somebody to be accountable Somebody to be accountable because that s what the Internet community expects And to say to the Internet community Oh no problem ICANN was accountable when it handed over the thing over to an unaccountable party but from there on no never mind we have a problem As mentioned earlier we have three accountability mechanisms as per the bylaws We have the ombudsman we have the reconsideration requests we have the IRP So we will adhere to all of those accountability mechanisms and we are continuing CPE Community Priority Evaluations is proceeding as per the guidebook as per the criteria in the guidebook And we have outsourced it to a competent well reviewed expert panel as we have much of the evaluations With Page 21 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N WERNER STAUB CHRISTINE WILLETT REMOTE INTERVENTION CHRISTINE WILLETT IGANN 15 the exception of a single applicant support panel all the rest of the evaluation work has been outsourced to expert third parties So thank you for your feedback appreciate the comments just wanted to make the difference of accountability to ICANN to people who deal with ICANN directly as opposed to accountability of users of the Internet who expect to have some accountabili
5. 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N STEFAN LEGNER RUSS WEINSTEIN STEFAN LEGNER RUSS WEINSTEIN STEFAN LEGNER DAN HALLORAN IGANN 15 So they make a presentation to ICANN and ICANN will decide Yes they will present their results to ICANN and their rationale and provide ICANN with confidence that they performed the evaluation per the guidelines and the AGB and that they ve done their job and then ICANN will if we believe that the job was done with the proper due diligence and to the requirements then we will publish the results Okay So there will you will be or the evaluator will be the one having the final decision As stated earlier Okay This is Dan Halloran from ICANN legal just wanted to Russ you re doing a great job answering the questions but just want to remind everyone that Russ is trying to give out general information and respond to the questions Really mean you re asking about legally binding final answers Like go read the Page 11 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N Applicant Guidebook That s what s final and binding And we try to take care when we put out like written information and webinars or advisories that that s final and legal and binding Or even there we sometimes give caveats like w
6. CHRISTINE WILLETT RAY FASSETT IGANN 15 Yes it follows the very similar to the other evaluation panel processes It know we ve been talking a lot about objections and expert panelists in terms of objections It is dissimilar to that and it is much more similar and it is an evaluation panel just as our other evaluation panels have been In fact the EIU did also they were one of our panel firms doing the geographic names evaluation So they re familiar with the program This is not a new concept to them Thank you That s very helpful And then different though than the other evaluation process there will be a report published and the and the scoring will be and the rationale for the scoring will be made public for people to review The rationale of the scoring Yes So believe at the last Webinar on this the team mentioned that yes since it is a stand alone evaluation it we will have an individual CPE report published and it will have the scoring included and the explanation of that score Thank you Thank you very much Page 19 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N WERNER STAUB IGANN 15 Werner Staub work for CORE My question is about accountability Now accountability is one of the basic ICANN principles and for some strange reason which is always complained about i
7. Christine is walking up I ll let her respond So the EIU will be assigning experts with history and background in the specific communities that are relevant So they will have expertise in the areas that they were that they are evaluating So there will be multiple panels Page 17 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RAY FASSETT CHRISTINE WILLETT RAY FASSETT CHRISTINE WILLETT RAY FASSETT IGANN 15 And whether it will be a single expert panelist or multiple panelists Yes it s not an individual It is multiple individuals participating in the evaluation in each evaluation All right So one last unfair question and you don t have to answer Does it require a If there s more than one panelist it could be say if there s three it could be a two to one decision and that will be published So the panel presents one single combined result to ICANN Just We ve had a financial panel a technical panel Each panel provides a single result to ICANN It s not that they have three votes We get a single result that is published to us Great That s very helpful Thanks So it s different than the objection process Page 18 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N CHRISTINE WILLETT RAY FASSETT
8. all the implications that we have here but there is one thing that is certain that is the way that this has been designed is Page 54 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN END OF TRANSCRIPT IGANN 15 such that firepower is the most important thing And it is about immediate firepower About those who can raise as much capital in an aggressive fashion basically in a war like fashion to conquer something Those are being favored by this process And don t think that is the right way of handling the DNS It should have been about all kinds of influence that you know should be taken into account including the ability for instance of community oriented applicants to say well in case we see there is a lot of you know firepower being built up around us that the community can actually raise its defenses Many communities would be able to do that you know if they actually had the process of seeing things coming But right now basically they re being told either come up with something a typical community applicant would not have They do not have a war chest Well TLD investors do have a war chest That s their business So essentially what we have here is a process that hands a large portion of the DNS to people whose business model is a war chest Thanks for the feedback Werner Okay With that we ll close t
9. be communicated via the customer portal They ll actually receive a case effectively at the same time that we actually invite the eligible community applicant Okay So it s going to be an electronic Electronic Okay Here we go The comment you said then you have a comment phase where you can comment on the application itself guess the comments have to be in electronical form as well The question is can anyone comment or does it have to have a relation to that application and must the comment include proofs or other material stuff to underline the issue or is it just enough to do a comment So first just a clarification It s not necessarily a it s not a window for a comment It s more of a deadline because even at this point you can actually still comment on applications It s more of a deadline to give the panel a cutoff date so that they know what to take in account for their evaluation Page 8 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N URS AROS STEVE CHAN URS AROS STEVE CHAN STEFAN LEGNER IGANN 15 In terms of who who is allowed to comment or correspondence you don t have to have a relation If you d like to comment you can comment If you want to submit a letter of opposition you can do that too via correspondence So it s whoever wants to comment Okay So far as got it the more substa
10. to 1600 But that s the only change Auctions will be conducted at a standard time And the deposits will be due the week before Auctions will be at least three weeks after the notification date So I m giving at least two weeks after notification of the actual date of the auction to provide a deposit and still over 60 days after the original intent to auction notification One area we re particularly looking for feedback is our current thinking is that a bidder will not be scheduled for more than five contention sets in a single auction set What we ve been talking about recently is giving the bidder the opportunity to waive that limit if they so choose But we won t force anyone to go beyond five So we re looking for the community to help us understand is that the right number of auctions in an event for any particular bidder versus being able to move through these somewhat expeditiously Any comments on this topic This is one of those situations where I m not very sure where this question comes so you can slap me down if it doesn t work right Prior to the auction when we have the information prior to the JAS report will we have some sort of idea as to how many strings Page 48 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN KEN STUBBS JON NEVETT IGANN 15 will be proposed to be blocked for this specific TLD befor
11. 1 begins and the preliminary thinking is that round 1 will be 30 minutes in length Bidders submit their bids any time during that round And then finally the round closes At that point there will be a recess where the preliminary thinking is the recess will be 10 minutes In the recess first of all the results of the round will be posted And then second of all the prices for the next round will be announced Now one important thing to note about this whole design is that there are no incentives created to bid either early or late in the round Because as you see in this picture your opponent will not find out anything about your bid until after the round is over So it doesn t matter whether you placed your bid in the first minute of round 1 or in the last minute of round 1 It won t become known to anybody and it won t take effect until after round 1 Okay Page 34 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 So then we go on and have round 2 The preliminary thinking is that round 2 and all subsequent rounds will last 10 minutes Again bidders can submit their bids any time during that round should add they can also revise their bids at any time during that round The protocol is that whatever bid is in the system when the round ends is the bid that s binding on you And then after the round closes the process r
12. 7 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN WERNER STAUB RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 That would be great Ken Thanks Werner Staub My question is why is the recess 10 minutes and not two weeks specifically You know if people have been waiting for eight years to blow an auction like that in a couple minutes we have what call a transparency problem And that is specifically the case because this auction is not supposed to be revenue maximizing Revenue maximizing is the objective if you auction oil fields if you auction mostly if you auction 3G spectrum and so on you probably want to maximize revenue This is not the case here So why don t you allow people to go back during a recess talk with their constituents to see what they re going to do and specifically you know publish the result of each round so the public can take the measure of what is going on So as you know the contention sets right now are public And now is your opportunity to work with your constituents on establishing what your bidding limit will be for the contention set Once we determine and notify the application that is going to be sent to auction you have up to 60 at least 60 days prior to the auction prior to the bidding deposit being due So we really are Page 46 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Commu
13. BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction Monday November 18 2013 17 15 to 18 45 ICANN Buenos Aires Argentina RUSS WEINSTEIN So it s about 5 15 I d like to get started now if everybody could take their seats Okay So we re going to get started now So if everyone could take their seats and end their side conversations that would be appreciated Okay welcome Thank you everybody This is the session for Community Priority Evaluation and new gTLD auctions So if you re not here for this ask you to step outside please gt gt Could we have your attention please Excuse us Thank you RUSS WEINSTEIN So I m Russ Weinstein senior manager on the gTLD program And like said Community Priority Evaluations and new gTLD auctions are the topic for today have Larry Ausubel from Power Auctions our auction provider here with me and Steve Chan our manager of new gTLD operations as well Next So the agenda for today is we ll give you an overview of where we are at so far with contention set resolution We ll provide a 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 as an aid to the original audio file but s
14. I d like to see your demand data It s kind of arbitrary This has been how we ve done it in other auctions and it works very well What we ve found is that following strict formulas leads to really strange things like the auction ends instantly where people are bidding for 30 rounds So you don t have a formula You just pulled the numbers out of your head That s what professors do Laughter Page 43 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N KEN STUBBS LARRY AUSUBEL KEN STUBBS IGANN 15 Yeah have a whole series of very small questions that can probably be answered very quickly First of all with respect to the results of each one of the rounds can assume this is a silent auction All you ll be doing is announcing that there are only three bidders left at the end of each round You won t announce who went out and at what number Is that correct Yes Secondly you mentioned the fact there are numerous redundancies available for entrance into the auction l m assuming most of these redundancies require log in sequence So I d hate to have a situation where my laptop went down and couldn t log in on a redundant deal So will it be possible now granted we have two people who are authorized to bid the gentleman over here and myself But if my system went down would either have be able to have mu
15. a final contention or dispute it would be resolved by way of auction And so by virtue of looking at the timeline pay particular reference to instances where the constituency that may be affected when say constituency or use that word in my framing my question I m not referring to a constituency within ICANN but a constituency within that or community outside of ICANN that could possibly be affected So herein lies my question A would the context of a notice be from the perspective of the publication on the ICANN Web site where and know that there are other processes involved where you re getting validations from supposed communities but in the event or in the foreseeable event where there were underserved communities that may not necessarily be on their radar but possibly affected but who do not have the capacity to engage in the auction what and know it s probably not within the remit of the CPE panel but certainly it would be within your remit in terms of scoring So I m very very interested And we don t have to discuss it now but if you can relay me to maybe a Web site or a link or where someplace can go where can ask further questions in relation to this Because this is something that the At Large community is very concerned about particularly in relation to those timelines Thank you ICANN Page 13 of 55 E ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W 0415 Buenos ALES BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Eva
16. and also objection determinations So also wanted to talk a little bit about the CQ process One of the main efforts that we re trying to do is have the panel validate letters of support So validating letters of support is something that the panel will do proactively They will reach out to the contacts as referenced in the letters of support or opposition Page 4 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 know there s been a little bit of confusion The contacts do not need to proactively reach out to the panel The panel will reach out to the contacts So in the event that the contact is not responsive one of the things that we want to address in the CQs is have the panel reach out to the applicant and have them coordinate and have the contact actually hopefully respond One other thing that s part of the scope for the CQs is that the applicant will have the opportunity to respond in the event that application comment letters of opposition or objection determinations materially affect the scoring So we we had correspondence going back and forth The correspondence is not method is not intended to be a way to communicate back and forth between perhaps someone providing comments to the application If the applicant has a or if the elements are affecting the scoring then the applicant will have the opportunity to respond
17. ay in all the way to that price But if anyone else has bid higher then you ll be eliminated Now implicit in the whole thing there s also a third type of bid But it s really just a special case of a continue bid So the third type of bid is a proxy bid And all we mean by proxy bid is you can enter any price you want as your continue bid So you could bid for example you could bid a round ahead or you could put your final price in all the way at the beginning of the auction And that will stay in the system as long as you leave it there You ll be free to modify it until it s up to the point where it s taken effect And the last thing to say is that all three of these types of bids may become winning bids A continue bid becomes a winning bid if you re the only if you re the last continue bid Page 33 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 Even if you re an exit bid you may still win because if every remaining bidder exits this round then the highest exit bid wins and pays the amount of the second highest exit bid And then of course a proxy bid could win but it might not win until a few rounds later Now in terms of the process the other thing to indicate is the timeline So before the start of the auction the end of round price for round 1 is announced Okay Then round 1 begins When round
18. bidder put 100 000 deposit in for the application which would establish a bidding limit of a million And the bidder typed in slightly more This like any good auction system does edit checks on all your bids The bid is rejected And then you can go back into the text box and fix it up So now we have a bid that s under the limit And now you can save that bid as well Okay And as you see now it shows it noticed it didn t change from red to green because that s an exit bid That could still win But if somebody else bids higher then you re going to get irrevocably eliminated from the auction But in any case the bidder can now go to the third do the same thing And as shown here they ve entered a 985 000 bid And don t go any further Just notice that on the fourth application here the bidder not only did a continue bid but the bidder put a proxy bid in mean perhaps this bidder considered 1 138 000 to be the limit And that one did change from red to green because it s at least the end of round price The bidder is not going to get eliminated Okay After completing this you would again get a bid confirmation Again we recommend you print it out And then after the round Page 39 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 is over you see a my results screen for round 2 Notice that the second
19. e bid confirmation screen and you say oh my God placed the wrong bid Well if the round is still open you can actually go back and change your bids Because the bids don t become irrevocable until after the round is over After the round is over we ll go to the next screen you see a my results screen And what that tells you is whether you re still bidding whether you ve won how many bidders are still in on the licenses on the applications that you re bid bidding on Let s keep going Round 2 we ll show a second way that you can bid Let s go to the bidding screen Now it might well be that the first string the bidder still wants to click on the end of round price because the bidder wants to continue But we still haven t said what the bidder should do if the bidder wants to exit First of all if you just look at the extreme right hand end of the screen what you see is what s displayed right now say for the second application is the number the highest number they ve put in to date mean the standing amount that they ve bid Now what they could do is click on edit bid And that will populate that same number into a text box And the bidder can then adjust the number in the text box Page 38 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 Now oops the bidder here there s a problem And that is this
20. e one of the two mechanisms mentioned either correspondence or change request In the FAQs on the CPE microsite it also has explanation for that process Okay Thanks Thank you And just to jump back to one of the earlier questions about publishing the CQs and the CY responses we re going to look into that and see what mechanisms we have available It seems like something we should consider So thanks for pointing that out Last CPE question here Of Oh hi Ray Fassett A question is what is the email address for the correspondence Page 16 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aiges west teat _ D ICANN M BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN RAY FASSETT STEVE CHAN CHRISTINE WILLETT IGANN 15 It s the standard new gILD icann org customer service email address Great thanks And the second question is on the panelist is it going to be the same panelists that review all of the community evaluations or will there be different panelist members And is it one panelist or three panelists If you can provide a little background on that So in terms of panel panels there s only a single panel It s going to be the EIU In terms of panelists the expectation is that they will do parallel reviews there will be two evaluation panelists evaluating the application in parallel mean I haven t actually asked them
21. e re trying to give out general information here and please refer to the Applicant Guidebook So just don t want you to feel like it s open season to kind of cross examine Russ here and drill down If you have specific detailed questions like that encourage you to put it through the customer service portal and we can you know then Russ can go to his attorneys we can look carefully at the guidebook and give a carefully crafted answer Just want to put that caveat and help Russ out He s trying to give you information here but don t like pull out you know some word that he said and said oh look here on this date in Buenos Aires Russ said this and this is binding This is a general information session and just wanted to give you that general piece of information Thanks SALANIETA TAMANIKAIWAIMARO Hi I m Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro and I m on the ALAC IGANN 15 But the views that wanted to give or the question is actually my own question I m not speaking for the ALAC First of all we had commented we had submitted contributions when you were developing the CPE guidelines Very pleased with your presentation Thank you It brings a lot of clarity However do have a question particularly with respect to what you Page 12 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N mentioned in terms of the final if there were to be
22. e we bid onit You know Absolutely One of the eligibility criteria was that the application would either have to be eligible for the alternate path And that is published today Or if it wasn t eligible for the alternate path we would wait until the full JAS collision occurrence assessment was provided so that applicants could perform do their proper analysis evaluations Okay thank you Quick follow up to that Sorry This is Jon Follow up to that though the alternative path is just the first step right It might make sense to have the JAS report for all strings Because for example just looked at the list We have one with over 100 000 strings that are being blocked The JAS report mitigation measures could have a significant impact on valuation All we know is there s 100 000 strings that are blocked We don t know what the mitigation path will be So that might be helpful in determining that before the auction proceeds Page 49 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN gt gt RUSS WEINSTEIN REMOTE INTERVENTION RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 Thanks Jon We ll consider that think our current thinking was it was equal level of information Kind of like the stock market everybody has the publicly available information and can make their own valuation decisions but hear you and Yea
23. epeats The results will get posted Prices will get announced And we go as many more rounds as is necessary Okay The next two slides are really easy ones This one in particular The system requirements are not the least bit exotic What you need is a standard PC or Mac with reliable connectivity And the browsers that will certify will be the newest version of IE Chrome and Firefox We would strongly recommend that a bidder has redundant connectivity So for example they might have a tablet with cellular data access or they might have a laptop with a 3G card You could also use as your backup a smartphone I d suggest trying it during the mock auction if you re going to do that to make sure your vision is good enough and your manual dexterity is good enough But in principle it will work on a smartphone too And then finally the bidder can have a second authorized individual in a separate location as a matter of redundancy as Page 35 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 well And then the guidebook provides and we will be implementing having a backup bid facility where you can submit bids by fax The last thing to say about this is actually your best form of redundant connectivity is simply to make use of the proxy bidding facility Because for example if you always bid one round in advance
24. estion How will my bidding limit be affected by the tie breaking round And an answer is given here And hopefully is given almost that promptly during the real auction And that s that s your demo So think mean so maybe the only other thing ought to say is if people have sort of detailed questions about how things work will be around through Wednesday And I m happy to answer people s questions that don t come up today Great Thanks Larry So I m going to first before we get to the queue l m just going to reintroduce those topics for discussion And we can go through them one by one if there is conversation about each one Have a little conversation after each slide similar to the webinar And then we ll open up for general Q amp A at the end So next one Oops sorry Two transition slides in there Next one So this is similar to what you saw in the webinar So our current thinking on round duration is that they first round is 30 minutes And there s a 10 minute recess between rounds And round two Page 41 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N gt gt LARRY AUSUBEL IGANN 15 And all subsequent rounds are 10 minutes We ve gotten some feedback but didn t want to change the proposals between the webinar and today didn t want to give the audience a moving target So we have hea
25. h that might be true but there are different models So if you have maybe an open model versus a closed model the impact could be greater to one applicant than the other Sure Thanks Two questions from the remote participants The first one is from Kristina Rosette If a string that is in string contention is also one of the 25 strings that are ineligible for the alternative path to delegation does the string s ineligibility for the alternative path to delegation have any impact on the timing of an auction of last resort Yes think that was what I just answered Page 50 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N REMOTE INTERVENTION RUSS WEINSTEIN JON NEVETT IGANN 15 Okay The second question is from Bret Fausett From the Uniregistry the rules are described as preliminary rules What can we submit I m sorry where can we submit comments to these What is the process for turning the preliminary rules into final rules Thanks Bret So think the appropriate feedback mechanism is the customer service center so that all the comments are coming in to ICANN and to my team We can we ll probably publish we can look at if we re going to publish that My goal was to use discussion rather than the formal public comment process so sessions like this to hear the feedback and see if there s consensus or non consensu
26. he session Thanks for your participation Applause Page 55 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires
27. his is Yannis from DotKids Foundation would like to ask about what if we have like additional support letter of a community is it still that the case that we can further support it in the customer service portal How would it be done Like and also what is the time frame for like for the support mean for adding the support letter Thanks Thanks for the question So there s two mechanisms available to you at this point One is to submit the additional letters as correspondence that will that will result in the letters being published on the correspondence page of course It will also allow you to avoid having your invitation if you end up being eligible delayed by the 30 day comment period So another method that you can add additional letter of support is via change request So the recommended method for you though is to submit via correspondence Sorry So does it mean that the community members can actually use the application comment for the as their like support letter there as well So the application comment mechanism doesn t actually allow attachments So if it s actually a letter that is signed and has a Page 15 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 we Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N YANNIS LI STEVE CHAN RUSS WEINSTEIN RAY FASSETT IGANN 15 contact in there that you want to attach as a letter you d have to either us
28. hould not be treated as an authoritative record BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 discussion on Community Priority Evaluation or CPE and then we ll open for discussion Q amp A portion on CPE for about ten minutes or so and then we ll move on to new gTLD auctions I ll go through I ll go through the status update readiness some process and timeline information and then I ll turn it over to Larry who will give you some simulation of the system and more explanation about ascending clock auctions and then we ll open it back up for discussion topics that we talked about in the webinar a couple 11 days ago or so and then open it for general Q amp A after that Next So current contention resolution status you ll see the figures on the left represent the initial figures after the string similarity panel performed its evaluation So we had 234 contention sets with 758 applications placed into contention Currently we re about 201 we re at 201 contention sets with 657 applications in contention And these figures do not account for the string confusion objection determinations yet We ve made Economist Intelligence Unit or EIU as we call them as the CPE panel and they re actively engaged on CPE And as mentioned earlier we have Power Auctions LLC as the auction provider And just always a friendly reminder that auctions are expected to be the method of last resort to resolve string c
29. hown here as an example is a bidder who has applications in four separate contention sets in the auction Go to the next screen We also what they ll also see immediately is an auction schedule So this is just showing a sample schedule where the first round is 30 minutes All subsequent recesses and rounds are 10 minutes And then let s go to the bidding screen So the auction has started What you see in front of you is the bidding screen that will access all the strings and all the contention sets that you have active right now What we re going to demonstrate first is the easiest way of bidding Okay So suppose you want to continue on all of these strings Then what you can simply do is move the cursor to the highlighted number which is the end of round price And you click on it If you can When you click on it the continue bid is registered And you re seeing that it moved from red to green because you are now guaranteed not to be eliminated for that string this round So this bidder might also want to continue on the second string on the third string and on the fourth string Page 37 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 After doing this the bidder can then go to the bid confirmation screen that s shown here And we strongly recommend you print it out But just to repeat the protocol what if you look at th
30. ion Next So putting this process into a timeline you ll see notifications go out on we ll call it day zero or day one The bidder forms are due back to ICANN within 30 days That s the first triangle This is also the deadline to request postponement of an auction and have more information on that at the end The auction will be scheduled approximately a schedule notification will go out approximately two to three weeks later and the applicant will be transitioned over to the Power Auctions team Seven days before the auction event the bidding deposit is due One day before the auction event the mock auction occurs The auction event will occur on a Wednesday Page 29 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N LARRY AUSUBEL IGANN 15 And nonbidding Nonwinning deposits will be refunded The transaction will be initiated within seven days after the auction And winner s payments are due within 20 days after the auction One more bit about bidding deposits and bidding limits think mentioned seven days prior to the auction Deposits cannot be modified after the deposit deadline They ll be held in an escrow account in a major U S commercial bank We re still working to finalize that agreement before we can name the entity but we believe we ll have that very soon And deposits must be sent to the escrow
31. ltiple log ins with my system for a backup so don t run into otherwise the 10 minutes becomes a do we really want 10 or maybe just a little bit longer Page 44 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N LARRY AUSUBEL KEN STUBBS LARRY AUSUBEL KEN STUBBS IGANN 15 Let me just give you a direct answer The protocol that we use is that if you do a new log in using the same user name and password it forces out the old one which means that in particular in that situation you re on And the two authorized individuals get different user names and passwords so they don t log each other out Yeah Secondly a comment I ve done some research on your company and you come with very very high credentials So I m assuming during the auction process correspondence between the individual bidders and a request for the chat sessions between you guys are very very responsive on your parts We don t have to wait any significant time if we post a question in to your staff to get a response if it s the case Am correct We re experienced at giving a high level of bidder support during high stakes auctions Fine Thanks a lot have some additional questions that relate to the preparation for the auction So I m assuming you want me to save that until we get done talking about the process Page 45 of 55 i ICANN 48 1
32. luation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN REMOTE INTERVENTION CHRISTINE WILLETT IGANN 15 Thank you for that question think might be mixing a couple of things together Only new gTLD applicants are who are in the contention set will participate in an auction for the for that contention set So the the affected communities will not be participating in the auction should it go to an auction Perhaps you maybe can point you to Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook and also to the CPE and auctions pages within the new gTLD microsite That might be a value to you Hi this is a question from the remote participant I m not sure if it s already been answered but the question is what is the mechanism if any for reviewing or challenging a specific EIU recommendation Thanks Wendy This is Christine Willett I ll take that question So as with any determination as part of ICANN not just applicants but others in the community have multiple mechanisms to pursue They have the ombudsman for issues of fairness they have reconsideration requests and they have the IRP So all of those mechanisms are in place for panel and new gTLD evaluation work as with any other aspect of ICANN Thank you Page 14 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N YANNIS LI STEVE CHAN YANNIS LI STEVE CHAN IGANN 15 T
33. nity Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N WERNER STAUB LARRY AUSUBEL RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 focused on using this time now to help applicants prepare for the auction and the as we ve stated the bidding deposit determines your maximum bidding limits So that s kind of our rationale And given that we have 200 contention sets to get through need some way to move through them in an expeditious manner I m a little worried about that To be suddenly told that we re in a hurry we want to rush people through auctions when we ve been waiting for other things all the time and not looking into the externalities of the process here is something we may have a problem of failure by ICANN to you know do what it s supposed to be doing It s supposed to handle a process in the public interests would just add that s what the guidebook provided for so those are the terms under which people applied Jon do you have a comment on this topic Okay We ll move to the next topic So the scheduling of auction events know this has been a question we get quite often So our current thinking is the auction will be scheduled once a month or every four weeks or so Page 47 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N KEN STUBBS IGANN 15 initially did adjust the time after a discussion with Power Auctions from 1800
34. ntial the more substantial we comment in case we would do so the more the panel is going to go into the material is that right So the so the clarification Russ was just whispering to me The panel it s their job to determine what is relevant and what needs to be taken into account and what might materially affect the score Perfect Thanks a lot Thank you Good evening my name is Stefan Legner also from InterNetX My question is who is the final authority defining that a Page 9 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N STEVE CHAN STEFAN LEGNER RUSS WEINSTEIN STEFAN LEGNER RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 community evaluation is really valid and it really targets a community or whether or not We select the Economist Intelligence Unit as the CPE panel It s ultimately their responsibility to evaluate the the applicant against the CPE criteria that s in the Applicant Guidebook and also their supplemental evaluation guidelines So it s ultimately their responsibility to come up with a determination So they will have the legally binding final decision whether it s a community application or not So the panel provides a recommendation to ICANN similar to initial evaluation or any of the evaluation panels and then ICANN will So they publish that Page 10 of 55 ICANN 48 17
35. o here what you have are five bidders They all continued to the end of round price for round one and it will be announced after round one to all those bidders that there are still five in Then we go on to round 2 A price range is announced to round 2 And bidders will submit bids for round 2 again indicating whether they re in through the end of round price or whether they ve reached their max Okay So here s an example of bidding that might occur during round 2 What we see are that bidder A reached its max at about the mid point between the start of round price and end of round price for round 2 while the other four bidders stayed in So at the end of round 2 we still have Page 31 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 four bidders in the election And that again is announced to all the bidders Then we go on to round 3 A price range is announced for round 3 The round starts Bids come in So what we have here is that two bidders hit their limit in this example So what you see in front of you is that bidder B dropped out very near the starting price for round 3 Meanwhile bidder C dropped out near the end of round price for round 3 And what we have at the end of round 3 is two bidders And after round 3 is over that fact is announced to bidders And we move on to round 4 The auction manager announces the p
36. o the previous session and we published some announcements recently on those topics Next So processwise the auction process starts with ICANN performing these eligibility assessments of contention sets Then once we determine eligibility there s a notification of intent to auction that goes to each member of the contention set and that goes via the customer portal We consider these qualified applicants The qualified applicant will have the ability to name its designated bidder and provide materials related to performing due diligence on that bidder from the standpoint of receiving fund transactions A designated bidder is an entity we ve defined it in the auction rules but it s the entity that owns the bank account that will supply the funds and will be the source account So it can be an entity other than the entity that is the applicant Page 27 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 The bidder and the applicant will be required to execute the bidder agreement and these items are due within 30 days of after notification of intent to auction and they ll be returned back to ICANN via the customer portal ICANN will then review the materials and begin setting up with Power Auctions their auction accounts escrow accounts And after a period of about two weeks we ll be able to set an auction date with what pa
37. ome window of opportunity to review and negotiate those contracts as well as some kind of public comment period however you you deem to do that as well Thank you Okay Yeah our current line of thinking on the agreement was it was more like a user agreement kind of like a software type user agreement You ve already entered into the agreement implicit in the guidebook of how contention will be resolved So by you re essentially saying that you ll abide by the rules of the auction But understood heard it and we ll take it under consideration Thanks Page 52 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN GERARDO CESAR RUSS WEINSTEIN GERARDO CESAR RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 Thanks Jon Hi I m Gerardo Cesar phonetic from PremierNet was listening to your comments about the five strings per applicant per session and it just doesn t seem like the right process to move forward because that would just like hey mean the big applicants would be like mandating the pace of the whole process of the auction sets So just wanted to leave that comment because it Sorry What part of it So you re saying that it s five strings per applicant per auction right So if an applicant has 100 strings then they would be like setting the pace for the whole process And it just doesn t seem like the pro
38. ontention You re always encouraged to resolve string contention amongst yourselves With that I ll turn it over to Steve Page 2 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N STEVE CHAN IGANN 15 Thank you Russ So as Russ has mentioned CPE is underway It started on the 24th of October There the evaluations are expected to take two to three months and perhaps an extra two weeks to actually get results published on the CPE microsite In terms of the evaluation pipeline we have 2 that are actually in evaluation 2 that are invited and 28 that remain to they still need to become eligible to be invited For the two that are in evaluation if there are CQs necessary we expect them to be sent early to mid December And we could see first results as early as early January 2014 So as those 28 applications community applications in contention become eligible they ll be invited on a weekly basis And we will be updating the CPE microsite regularly with invitations and elections and you can visit that URL for continued status updates We often get questions about eligibility so just want to remind everybody what the eligibility requirements are for invitation The community application itself must be self designated per section 1 2 3 of the AGB They must be an active string contention set They must not have a pending change reque
39. per way to evenly take into account the interest of all of the applicants Okay Do you have an alternative recommendation Page 53 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N GERARDO CESAR RUSS WEINSTEIN WERNER STAUB IGANN 15 I ll think about it and I ll Okay We have another slide here Postponement process I ve been asked about this quite a bit So the current thinking on the postponement process is one up to one postponement of up to 90 days may be granted per contention set The request must be received submitted by all applicants via their primary contacts through the customer portal All members of the contention set submit their own request And that request is due at the same time the bidder declaration of designated bidder or the 30 day window for the after notification The rationale for this is it prevents a single entity from stalling the auction process The basis of request for extension should be good faith attempts to resolve a contention set without an auction So in order to have a good faith attempt all parties need to be involved And that s our line of thinking on this one don t see any questions for this particular topic so we ll just move on to general Q amp A So if there are any other items please come to the mic Thanks Werner Staub again have made you know thought enough about
40. provider by wire and denominated in U S dollars The bidding deposit will determine your maximum bidding limit and Larry will explain a little bit more about how that s going to work but each deposit each application will have its own deposit and bidding limit The bidding limit for an auction is set at ten times the amount of your deposit And a 2 million deposit will provide unlimited bidding limit for that application So now I ll turn it over to Larry to talk you through what an ascending clock auction is all about So I m also an economics professor as will probably become obvious from this slide But pay attention now because basically Page 30 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 the whole procedure of the ascending clock auction is going to be shown in this slide So so this just an example of a contention set with five bidders And at each round of the auction the auction manager will announce a price range which will be a start of round price and an end of round price So the start of round price in this first round as is shown here is 1 The end of round price will be announced And then the round starts Okay So what s shown here during the round each bidder will indicate whether they re in all the way to the end of round price or whether they ve reached their bidding limit S
41. rd some feedback We ll continue to listen to feedback here and for the next few weeks think And then we ll finalize these decisions So think I ve explained this before So I ll turn it back to the queue Do you have a topic on this topic Or a question on this topic Sure What is the formula for the upper limit of the rounds Roughly speaking it will be set according to the perceived demand for that contention set and is aimed so that the auction takes a reasonable number of rounds mean bidders value getting the feedback as to how many other bidders are still in the auction So you want it to go multiple rounds if possible But at the same time it s really desirable to get the whole thing done in one day And so according to indicators like how many applicants are in the contention set and maybe other external information about the overall level of demand we ll set the end of round price And then in all likelihood it will continue at the same rate in subsequent rounds Page 42 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N gt gt RUSS WEINSTEIN gt gt LARRY AUSUBEL gt gt LARRY AUSUBEL IGANN 15 Is it possible to publish an open formula What are you looking for Is it possible to publish a formula as to how you are going to come up with this or are you just intrinsically taking demands If so
42. rice range The round starts And the bids come in And so what you see here is that bidder D dropped out a little bit above the midway point between the start of round price and the end of round price Meanwhile the bidder E stayed in until the end of round price So at the end of round 4 we only have one bidder remaining They re the winner Now the remaining thing to say is that the principle of this selection is that it s a second price selection So the price that will actually be paid by the winner is not how high they were willing to go but the price at which the next to last remaining bidder dropped out So you can see on this slide that bidder E wins the auction and pays the price at which bidder D dropped out Okay Page 32 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 This one got slightly messed up on the screen in front of you but broadly speaking there are only two types of bids Bidding is really easy in the ascending clock auction Because the only bids really are first continue bids That means you want to bid all the way to the end of round price of the round And that guarantees you ll move on to the next round without getting eliminated And then the second type is an exit bid And that means that you ve reached your maximum during the current round And then you indicate the maximum And that means you ll st
43. rticipants are participating in each auction event So this auction we will notify the applicants of their auction date and provide credential credential information to transition from the ICANN system to the Power Auction systems Next Leading up to the auction as said we ll transition you from the ICANN systems to Power Auctions systems where they ll provide wire instructions for submitting the deposit You ll provide information as to where the funds will be directed back in the event that you do not win the auction and you ll be able to designate two authorized individuals from the bidder to participate in the auction itself Once the deposit deadline occurs which is seven days prior to the auction this begins what we re calling a blackout period During this blackout period discussions among contending applicants Page 28 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 must cease and their designated bidders must cease And withdrawals will not be processed during this blackout period A mock auction will be conducted by Power Auctions the day before the auction event and this is for the designated bidders authorized individuals of the particular auction event that we re holding And this will give them a chance to kind of practice in the system and see what it s like to participate in an ascending clock auct
44. s in the community But we re open The idea was to try and finalize the rules within the next couple of weeks since they didn t differ very differently from the guidebook interpretations Can you put the timeline slide back up if we re talking timeline issues Thank you So just wanted to this is Jon Nevett again from saying name want to make sure that we have a sufficient opportunity to your point about providing comments and don t care if it s a formal 42 day public comment period or shorter Page 51 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN JON NEVETT IGANN 15 period but there s got to be a mechanism for those applicants who are participating in the auction to provide input For example you mentioned that you might change the time frame of the rounds You ve got some input from someone assume they want it longer Not necessarily shorter but once you ve come up with a final proposal think you need to put that out for some kind of comment period and the more important issue and it s think on the prior slide you said there was a contract that will come to applicants to sign If history is any guide on ICANN contracts you know we need an opportunity to be able to review them and negotiate those those contracts as well So we you know for timeline purposes you might want to build in s
45. st and they also must not be in a 30 day application comment window for an approved change request In addition all members of the set must also have completed evaluation have Page 3 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 no pending objections have no unresolved GAC advice and not be classified as high risk per the Name Collision Occurrence Management Plan So next just wanted to talk about process specifically the invitation and notification process As mentioned earlier we will be inviting eligible applications on a weekly basis From the date of invitation they ll receive 21 days to both elect and also pay the 22 000 USD deposit At the same time that we do the invitation we ll also notify every other member of the contention set that they have been invited and one other thing that we ll do also do at the same time is update the CPE microsite to reflect the invitation date And why that s important is the is that application comments and correspondence the due date for receiving those and to be taken into account by the panel it needs to be received 14 days after the invitation date Next sorry I ll get a little closer In terms of evaluation scope all elements of the public portion of the application will be reviewed They ll also be looking at application comments letters of support and opposition
46. string we placed an exit bid ended up losing while the third string where you also put an exit bid in ended up winning because your opponents exited sooner Okay And then if we had more time we would have shown a round 3 and a round 4 But those have been preloaded So at the end of the auction you would see a my results screen that s final As you can see in this example the bidder won in their third and fourth applications whereas the bidder lost on their first two And this screen also shows sort of the cash flows with respect to their deposits and their final payments The last thing that just want to show briefly is the messaging system So this is how communication can occur most expeditiously with the auction manager So there are two types of messages in the system There s undirected messages to everybody in the auction And then there are directed 2 way conversations So what s shown on this screen is an example of a one way undirected message We simply call those messages That s the standard welcome message that you might see at the beginning of the auction Page 40 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN IGANN 15 Now suppose you need support Then you might initiate a two way conversation with the auction manager It goes only to the auction manager And so you could type in your qu
47. t was not part of the community validation criteria in the guidebook but let s say it is possible to argue that it is implicitly part of it You cannot say accountability will not be important in ICANN context And you can say that accountability is of course part of criteria like community delineation It is part of organization It is part of detriment Basically at some point someone needs to be accountable But my question is however whether the discussion that is going to be published by the panel is going to discuss the matter think that is important because specifically in the one in the related thing that have been involved in which is the dot sport objection which has prevailed actually accountability was discussed by the panelists So think that is important that it be discussed Now is there any expectation that we could have that accountability specifically on the for the affected parties will be discussed in the context of the community priority And when say affected parties don t mean the applicants or the gTLD Page 20 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N CHRISTINE WILLETT WERNER STAUB CHRISTINE WILLETT IGANN 15 operators but the parties who are affected by the use of the TLD in the end End users Web users So if you re not talking about the applicant being accountable
48. th bidders on six continents We filled that out recently this year when we started doing diamond auctions in Botswana Our auctions are implemented as a Web application We meet government and other standards for stability and security Our auctions are replicated to a geographically separate server and so our reliability is extremely high Maybe the take away should leave you with more than anything is we ve done this before And so if you have any concerns about the auctions getting started or going on interminably that should not be your concern And we ll be giving you further explanation of details Thanks Larry So now I ll talk through process and timeline of the auction program Next one So eligibility Eligibility criteria for an auction is very similar to CPE Each active application in a contention set must have passed Page 26 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 evaluation resolved any applicable GAC advice have no pending objections and no pending change requests And then each applied for gTLD in the contention set must not be classified as high risk per the name collision occurrence management plan and must be eligible for the alternate path to delegation or have received their SLD collision occurrence assessment from ICANN If you don t know what I m talking about maybe you can listen t
49. then if your Internet connection goes down the bid is already in And as say when you get to the next round assuming you haven t lost your Internet connection you can edit that bid anyway As far as bidder training we take this very seriously for all our auctions There will be a mock auction prior to each live auction Participation is optional but we strongly recommend it for new bidders The mock auction isn t really a system test It s a training exercise It will generally be one day prior to each live auction At the very beginning of the process we might have additional mock auctions in order to accommodate there will be greater training needs because everyone will be a new bidder There will also be a user manual published There will be a message system within the auction software that will be part of the demo that get to next And there will be telephone support during mock auctions and live auctions Okay Page 36 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N IGANN 15 So what we re going to get to now is the system demo So we re going to begin with bidding in round 1 So the first thing that we see is a log in screen It s very standard with HTTPS and all that After you log in after you log in the first screen that you ll see is the screen which gives the information about the strings that you re bidding on So what s s
50. to them And also the applicant may be given a chance to clarify application responses and that s clarify not expand or change their answers In regards to timing of CQs they re expected to be roughly one month into the evaluation process and consistent with initial evaluation applicants will receive 28 days to respond to the CQs This is a timeline that s also on our CPE microsite It just gives you a rough overview of the evaluation process It s consistent with what was just talking about the 21 days to elect and pay the 14 Page 5 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN ANDREW MERRIAM STEVE CHAN IGANN 15 day deadline for application comment and correspondence approximately a month for evaluation and if clarification clarifying questions are issued and required then the applicant gets one month to respond and there s an additional month for finalization and publication of results So all in all all told it s about two to three months for evaluation and publication of results So that s actually my slides I m going to turn it over to question and answer So if there s any question and answer related to CPE we d like to take it at this time and there s a mic up here for the queue Andrew Merriam Top Level Design Good afternoon Real quickly on the issue of clarifying applications
51. ty about people controlling resources that affect them And somehow ICANN should be careful about whom it hands those resources to Users expect accountability not specifically the one that we have in the guidebook Thank you Question from our remote participant Eric Brunner Williams Will the qualifications and membership of a particular panel making a particular determination be made public along with the recommendation So the panel performing the CPE process has already been named the Economist Intelligence Unit They went through an RFI Page 22 of 55 i ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES Community Priority Evaluation CPE and Auction E N RUSS WEINSTEIN gt gt RUSS WEINSTEIN gt gt CHRISTINE WILLETT gt gt IGANN 15 process for selection and we have been all ready to share that information publicly Sorry I m going to cut you off We need to move on to the auctions portion Pardon me We need to move on to the auctions portion One last question ten seconds because we didn t really get the answer before Who is really drawing the decision Is it the panel giving a suggestion to the board and the board says yes or is the panel doing the final decision So the panel makes a recommendation and provides a report to ICANN So yeah we already Thanks Page 23 of 55 ICANN 48 17 21 Nov 2013 W Buenos Alges BUENOS AIRES
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