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On IPR protetion, the report notes that "the lack of any screening or verification in the .info Sunrise period led to serious abuses," and notes that if defensive registration measures were adopted in an unrestricted TLD it "would not be consistent with attracting new users and uses to the DNS."
Finally the report advances, among other policy options, the heretical idea that future TLD rollouts might "rel[y] on UDRP alone, as simpler and appropriate given that trademark registrations may constitute only 2 - 3% of all registrations."
The report's conclusions about competition are noteworthy: "Examining market share, extent of actual choice and price elasticity
suggests that impact [of new TLDs] has been minimal. Other evidence, however, indicates
that TLD expansion has attracted about 20% new registrants and led to new
uses among 40 – 60% of registrants. The most significant contribution has
been the development of facilities-based competition. As a result, new
providers of registry services have been able to compete effectively with
the incumbent registry, VeriSign, on that basis. Innovation has played a
supporting role, and may become increasingly important as the three largest
registries work to distinguish themselves from one another."
The report also concludes (surprise!) that the registry contracts imposed on new TLDs "reflect a level of detail that may not be necessary for future TLDs" and calls them "cumbersome."
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ICANN Evaluation Report on New gTLDs Published