<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Andrew,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">There was a discussion paper posted for public comment before Dublin, with comments ended November 8. <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-auction-proceeds-2015-09-08-en">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-auction-proceeds-2015-09-08-en</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Subsequent to that, SO/AC chairs were invited on January 6 to propose members of the charter Drafting Team that James Bladel mentioned. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Like you, I can't find evidence of this (other than having seen a copy of the email referred to above), but I expect that will change once the DT actually gets underway.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Andrew Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com" target="_blank">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:28:48PM -0500, Avri Doria wrote:<br>
> At the very least, I believe they are holding these funds in a separate<br>
> account, or something like that, until the Board decides what it want s<br>
> to do. Hard to know for sure.<br>
<br>
</span>There was a session about this in BA:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Pre-CWG+Workshop+on+new+gTLD+Auction+Proceeds" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Pre-CWG+Workshop+on+new+gTLD+Auction+Proceeds</a><br>
<br>
I am unable to find evidence that the relevant CWG has in fact been<br>
started, but I can never find anything on the ICANN website, so that's<br>
no guide as to whether it's happened.<br>
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Andrew Sullivan<br>
<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a><br>
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