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<span style="font-family: Calibri; ">As we noted on our 14-Jul member call, ICANN's Board will soon consider the GNSO PDP recommendations for IRTP-B (inter-Registrar Transfer Policy - Part B). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">There is now an open public
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Last week, I suggested that our BC members who were most active on the IRTP working group could offer a comment for the BC to submit to the Board. Mikey O'Connor, Berry Cobb, and Chris Chaplow came up with this brief
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The BC endorses the recommendations made by the IRTP-B Working Group and encourages Board members to vote in favor of the motion as drafted.</p>
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If Board members have issues which prevent them from supporting the motion, the BC urges the Board refer the issue back to the GNSO Council which can ask the IRTP-B working group to review the Board's feedback and perhaps modify recommendations where appropriate.</p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">These comments are due 8-Aug, giving us 9 days for review, edits, and approval. This is less than than our customary 14 day review period, but I believe 9 days is adequate to review a two-sentence
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">All BC members are invited to suggest edits on the BC list. </span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Steve DelBianco</span></div>
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