Community Priority Evaluation
Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) is a review process to resolve string contention. In the previous round of nTLDs, it was described in section 4.2 of the Applicant Guidebook. It occurs if a community application is in contention and elects to pursue the CPE process. The evaluation refers to an independent analysis conducted by a panel from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), who reviews and scores the community applicant against four criteria:[1]
- Community Establishment,
- Nexus between Proposed String and Community,
- Registration Policies, and
- Community Endorsement.
The CPE application must score at least 14 points to prevail.
Eligibility
If an application is eligible, it then is invited to CPE and has 21 days to accept the invitation and pay the fee. Then, the evaluation begins after two weeks of the invitation. To be eligible, an application must:
- be a self-designated Community Application
- have an application status of "Active"
- be in an unresolved contention set
- not have a pending change request
- not be in an active comment window for a recently approved changed request
- have completed all previous stages of the process.
All applications in the contention set must:
- have completed evaluation
- have no pending objections
- have addressed all applicable GAC Advice
- not be classified in the "High Risk" category of the Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework
Accelerated Invitation to CPE
Sometimes ICANN notifies applicants that they have the option to request an Accelerated Invitation to CPE if the outstanding eligibility criteria do not impact the community applicant's membership in a contention set and/or if the contention set as a whole have not met all eligibility requirements for the standard CPE Invitation process.