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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">GNSO Councilors:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">I recently learned that, when Staff was incorporating the relevant sections of the CSG Work Team recommendations (2.1 and 2.2) into the GNSO Operating Procedures (v2.0), an important explanatory note was inadvertently omitted. Appropriately, Staff did not transfer certain non-procedural content, for example, “Background” and “Executive Summary.” Unfortunately, there were two sentences that should have been included; however, they were originally located under “Background” and, thus, were not noticed. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">What I am recommending is that the following paragraph be added immediately below the GOP Chapter 7 heading and before 7.1-Participation Rules. It will be inserted in a shaded box as follows: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#C00000" FACE="Book Antiqua">[</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#C00000" FACE="Book Antiqua">Important Note</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#C00000" FACE="Book Antiqua">: The recommendations in Chapter 7 apply to both Constituencies and Stakeholder Groups, referred to collectively as “Groups.” In addition, with respect to this Chapter’s contents, the word “should” shall be interpreted to mean: an obligation or duty to take a certain course of action, unless otherwise specified.] </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">Would anyone object if this addition is made to the version that the Council approved on 5 August 2010? If there are no objections, I will ask Staff to update the version on the GNSO web site (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://gnso.icann.org/council/docs.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Book Antiqua">http://gnso.icann.org/council/docs.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">); otherwise, we will have to draft a motion and put the matter to a vote at our 26 August meeting. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">Thank you,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua">Chuck Gomes</FONT></SPAN></P>
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