In an official announcement, ICANN has confirmed that Digital Archery aka Batching Process will begin June 8th, 2012 (tomorrow). The batching process will determine which new gTLD applications are going to be processed in the first batch, the second batch, etc. It will be done by assignment of a timestamp, and the formation of batches.

          According to ICANN, the batching system is targeted to open on June 8th 2012 at 00:01 UTC. The system will close at 23:59 UTC on June 28 2012, in other words it will be open for business for around three weeks. The target date for posting the order of the batches is July 11, 2012. The announcement will be eagerly awaited.

“Timestamp assignments will be done using the TLD Application System (TAS). All applicants must use their TAS credentials to log in, read and accept the batching rules, indicate their batching preference, and select their target date and time. Once these steps are completed applicants should log back into TAS to hit the target time and generate a secondary timestamp. Users will have access to a testing feature to gauge the secondary timestamp system’s response time.”

          Batching formation will take into account an applicant’s: batching preference, geographic region and secondary timestamp; and contention among identical and/or similar applications, which we already know there will be plenty of.

          ICANN says that they have tried to provide a stable and secure platform for the batching system to be effective. Users will connect to the Citrix XenApp high-availability cluster and will then log into the batching system to complete the process.

          Applicants will be required to agree to a set of Batching Rules, including an agreement that reads: “ICANN reserves the right to delay an application to the last batch or to reject an application entirely if ICANN reasonably determines that the applicant abused the batching system or intentionally interfered with the performance of the system or any other applicant’s use of the system.”

          ICANN has also posted several additional Digital Archery resources on it’s website to inform applicants about the batching process. The newly available material includes a FAQ, video demo of the system, user guide, batching details and rules, and a fact sheet of batching basics. Information on security, infrastructure, and operations is also available in these newly released materials.

Related posts:

• Digital Archery — What Is It?
• ICANN Releases new TLD Application System Security Issue Update
• ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress
• Pool Releases Digital Archery Game for new TLD Applicants
• ICANN Issues additional statement regarding new TLD Application System Bug

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