The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has issued advice to the ICANN Board of Directors regarding New gTLD applications. Please see the entirety of the GAC Beijing Communiqué [PDF, 156 KB] for the full list of advice on individual strings, categories of strings, and strings that may warrant further GAC consideration.
This announcement serves as the official notification to applicants of publication of GAC Advice and begins the applicant response period per the Applicant Guidebook Module 3.1. Applicants have 21 calendar days from this publication date to submit a response to the ICANN Board. Applicant responses to the ICANN Board should be submitted no later than 23:59:59 UTC on 10-May-2013. ICANN will publish applicant responses and provide them to the Board.
Please submit responses using the GAC Advice-Applicant Response form [DOC, 93 KB] to the ICANN Customer Service Center via your CSC Portal.