Hi everyone, while we are still working on ongoing public comments, we got 2 new and important ones that we should cover: - Preliminary Issue Report on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-subsequent-prelim-2015-08-31-en - New gTLD Auction Proceeds Discussion Paper https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-auction-proceeds-2015-09-08-en For the former, we had some discussion in our last confcall last week . while the latter it was a topics for discussion in Buenos Aires meeting. please read the reports and review them. I created 2 google docs for the NCSG comments draft to kick-off the discussion and get your inputs and thoughts. - for new gTLD https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEgQxOP0NYc6JtVx_GWDqwn9bihI8U09KTBbhbOBz3Q/edit - for auctions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Im-BTA6D32M_Rtn-IxrvjVAi5IjAZM5V-WQJC_wlIc/edit Best Regards, Rafik Dammak NCSG chair