<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have responded to Chris that I would reply with a formal response shortly, but noted that in general I thought there was agreement in the council for such a meeting. I did ask him whether this was to be an open or closed meeting, noting that all of our meetings were generally open but as this was his invitation, I wanted to check. I will pass on his response once I get it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I suggest a 48 hour call on this decision: i.e would anyone who objects to my sending a response formally accepting this invitation with a suggestion of a meeting time of 1230 please respond to the list. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>a.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Chris Disspain" <<a href="mailto:ceo@auda.org.au">ceo@auda.org.au</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">22 January 2008 09:00:21 GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"'Avri Doria'" <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"ccNSO Council" <<a href="mailto:ccnso-council@icann.org">ccnso-council@icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Joint Council meeting - Delhi</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi Avri,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Further to the ccNSO letter to the ICANN Board of yesterday, I write to formally invite the full GNSO council to a meeting with the full<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">ccNSO Council</st1:personname><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to discuss the GNSO resolution of 3 January and our response, the ccPDP and the fast track.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">I hope that GNSO Council is willing to have this meeting, which, we have suggested in our letter should be independently moderated. If so, I suspect that it is timing that will be challenging. As you know it is intended that the IDNC Working Group will ‘host’ an open session on Monday afternoon in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to discuss where the WG is up to and to get as much input as possible. I think that we can run that workshop from, latest, 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm. On that basis, would the GNSO Council be prepared to meet with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">ccNSO Council</st1:personname><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>commencing at some time between Noon and 1.00 pm?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Chris Disspain</span></font><span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">CEO - auDA</span></font><span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Australia</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">'s Domain Name Administrator</span></font><span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><a href="mailto:ceo@auda.org.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">ceo@auda.org.au</a></span></font><span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><a href="http://www.auda.org.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.auda.org.au</a></span></font><span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 1pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 1pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; ">Important Notice -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><font size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana; ">This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. 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