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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hello All,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Below is the text from the ICANN website on the stat plan process:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.icann.org/strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.icann.org/strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Note the raw output from the sessions run by Patrick Sharry is available, along with the list of questions considered.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Regards,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Bruce</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTATION PROCESS 2005</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">In 2004, ICANN released its first strategic plan. July 2005 marks the beginning of the six-month strategic planning cycle to revise and roll forward the three-year plan. An outline of the process for the next six months can be found </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/outline-2005.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">here</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">At the Luxembourg meeting, ICANN conducted a number of consultation sessions seeking the views of the community on the July 2006 - June 2009 Strategic Plan. Sessions were run for SOs, ACs and other constituency groups, and general consultation sessions were conducted in English, French and Spanish. The raw output from these sessions is attached </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/output.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">here</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. An issues paper which summarises this output and the responses that have been received to the questions posted on the site will be released early September.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">In addition, a </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///meetings/luxembourg/captioning-pf1-13jul05.htm"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">report</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> by the President at the Luxembourg meeting allowed all members of the community to understand the current status of key initiatives.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Members of the ICANN community are invited to contribute to the consultation process by becoming involved through their constituency, supporting organization or advisory committee, or by responding individually to the questions that are being used in the consultation process. This includes both the original set of questions (</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/questions.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">English</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> | </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/questions-spanish.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Spanish</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> | </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/questions-french.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">French</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">) and additional questions (</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/additional-questions.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">English</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> | </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/additional-questions-spanish.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Spanish</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> | </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="file:///strategic-plan/consultation-process-LUX/additional-questions-french.html"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">French</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">If you are responding to these questions via the public comment forum on the web-site, it is not required that you respond to all the questions. Also, if you are responding to these questions via the public comment forum on the website, please refer to the question number (letter and number) at the start of your answer to each question. Please write your responses to <</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:stratplan-questions@icann.org"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">stratplan-questions@icann.org</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">>. The responses can be viewed at </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://forum.icann.org/lists/stratplan-questions"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://forum.icann.org/lists/stratplan-questions</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Please respond by Friday 2 September so that your input can be included in the issues paper that will be released in early September.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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