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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>To: GNSO Councilors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Stakeholder Group and Constituency Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>The topic of Voting Remedies (i.e. abstentions, absences, and vacancies) is currently Item #5 on the GNSO Council agenda scheduled for 28 October 2010 and Ray Fassett, GCOT Chair, has been invited to participate. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>In preparation for this discussion, I wanted to inform you that we have made several improvements (outlined below) to both the Voting Remedies Visual Map and the online Abstention Notification Form based upon feedback received. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Visual Map (</span></u><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/visual-procedures-map-en.htm">http://gnso.icann.org/council/visual-procedures-map-en.htm</a>) <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Changed title to “Voting Remedies: Abstentions, Absences, and Vacancies”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Removed a redundant step in the Planned Absence structure (per Chuck’s suggestion). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Added larger Email Icons to indicate where sample message contents are provided and located them to the right side of each block for consistency with the Note icons. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>All of the pop-up text is now available to be copied/pasted to simplify creating an Email message using the sample message contents. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Repositioned sections to enable the addition of flow arrows to make it easier to follow the procedure. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Abstention Notification Form</span></u><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> (<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/abstention-notification-form-en.htm">http://gnso.icann.org/council/abstention-notification-form-en.htm</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Changed several field labels to include the word “Officer” to make clear who completes this form. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Reordered the fields based upon feedback (e.g. moved “Officer Email Address” to top section).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Added conditional logic to the form so that, once a particular voting remedy is selected, only the appropriate fields appear. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>The above changes are intended to make the procedures map and the online form easier to understand, follow, and execute. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>I thank those who provided constructive feedback in helping to make these tools more useful to the GNSO community. I also thank our responsive ICANN Web-Admin team for their flexibility and creativity in implementing the above design enhancements. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>For those SGs and Constituencies that have yet to take advantage of the offer, Staff remains available to provide a tutorial on the new Voting Remedies including the procedures map and online form. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Ken Bour<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>