ccNSO Letter to ICANN Board re: EPSRP Final Report

Date
29 January 2017

Below please find the EPSRP final report and ccNSO letter to the ICANN Board.

Background:

The Working Group was formed in Q3-Q4 2015 following the ICANN Board decision in June 2015. The mandate of the Working Group as defined in the ICANN Board resolution was "to provide further guidance on and refinement of the methodology of second string similarity review process, including the interpretation of its split recommendations, to be applied to the relevant current and subsequent cases in the IDN ccTLD Fast Track process as well as to inform the proposed policy for the selection of the IDN ccTLD strings".