ICANN 49 addressed, among other things, the following issues:

• the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) safeguard advice;
• the Qualified Launch Program (QLP) for registry operators;
• Specification 13 to the new gTLD Registry Agreement for dot brand registries;
• the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority’s (IANA’s) transition away from the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA);
• rights protection mechanism (RPM) circumvention; and
• intergovernmental organization (IGO) abbreviations.

For a summary of the outcomes on these issues, see Katten’s takeaways from ICANN 49.