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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02jun11-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02jun11-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=title><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN Final Status Report to the GNSO Council on AGP Limits Policy Implementation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=docdate><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2 June 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN today is posting its fifth and final </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-final-report-02jun11-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>status report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 316 KB] to the GNSO on the implementation of its recommendations for the Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy. As noted in prior status reports, the success of the Policy is evidenced by the 99.7% reduction in AGP deletes since the Policy went into effect in April 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN committed to analyzing and reporting on the effects of the Policy to the GNSO at six-month intervals for two years after its implementation. The first </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-10jun09-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>status report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 41 KB] was issued on 10 June 2009, the second </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-14dec09-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>status report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 61 KB] on 14 December 2009, the third </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-01jun10-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>status report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 224 KB] on 1 June 2010, and the fourth </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-limits-policy-report-18nov10-en.pdf"><span lang=EN-US>status report</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 312 KB] on 18 November 2010. The purpose of these reports has been “to allow the GNSO to determine when, if ever, these recommendations and any ensuing policy require additional clarification or attention based on the results of the reports prepared by ICANN Staff.” Presented in a prior report was that during GNSO calls in April and May 2010, following inquiry from ICANN Staff about whether or not additional Policy work should be considered, the GNSO decided that the success of the Policy and the low number of exemption requests demonstrated that modifications to the Policy were not warranted at that time. Further, since the time of those calls there have not been any additional GSNO discussions about the Policy and the number and frequency of reported exemption requests from registrars has dropped considerably.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The results of the AGP Limits Policy illustrate the success of ICANN’s consensus-driven, bottom-up policy development process. Community members identified the problem, initiated policy discussions, generated a solution, and now monitor the results. The ICANN practice of encouraging and considering broad community input on policy issues leads to effective results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>