<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks much for these, Steve. As always, you are succinct and still provide excellent detail. I have a great appreciation for your reporting.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Angie</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Steve DelBianco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org" target="_blank">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Attached is a draft comment from the BC regarding ICANN's call for comments on New gTLD Registry Agreement (<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/closed-generic-05feb13-en.htm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/base-agreement-05feb13-en.htm" target="_blank">link</a>).
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<div>As discussed on our member call this week, this draft does <u>not</u> propose any changes to previous BC positions. Instead, the attached comment applies prior BC positions to 4 aspects of the proposed new registry agreement:</div>
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<div>We are taking comments on this draft until midnight 19-Mar and plan to submit on 20-Mar. In my view, there is no requirement for formal voting since the BC is not taking any
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<div>However, if 10% of BC membership proposes written changes to the prior positions expressed here, we'll hold a call to consider changing the BC position. Any vote to change would require a majority vote of BC members. (see Charter section 7.3)</div>
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<div>Steve DelBianco</div>
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