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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Members of the ICANN Board,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Further to our comments on the EPDP Initial Report, I write to raise for your attention an aspect of our previously-submitted comments that may have been overlooked by the EPDP
 team in producing its Final Report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our comments submitted December 21, 2018 (www.wipo.int/amc/en/docs/icann21122018.pdf) stated that:  “We submit that in lieu of or in addition to a representative of the RPM WG,
 a UDRP provider should be included as a representative in any update to the EPDP team to properly assess the potential impact of the EPDP work on UDRP case administration.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Further to the EPDP Final Report’s suggestion (see Part 4: Updates to Other Consensus Policies) that a representative
<i>from the RPM WG</i> provide an update to the EPDP team, we again respectfully suggest that a representative
<b><i>from a UDRP Provider</i></b> such as WIPO should be part of and/or coordinate any such update. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We raise this given that it is unlikely that a WG member who does not have direct UDRP Provider experience would be in a position to fully understand the implications of the
 EPDP’s work on the actual day-to-day administration of UDRP proceedings.  We feel that such actual UDRP Provider representation would assist ICANN and the EPDP’s efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for your consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brian
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003399">Brian Beckham</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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