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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Councilors,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the IGO-INGO WG, I am pleased to present the attached motion and IGO-INGO WG’s PDP Final Report on the Protection of IGO and INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs for consideration of and deliberation by the Council at the forthcoming
 GNSO Council meeting in Buenos Aires.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In preparation of the Council meeting, Thomas Rickert will be providing a detailed presentation of the WG’s recommendations to the GNSO at its Saturday morning, 16 Nov session.  It is expected that the GNSO Council will deliberate this
 issue at its Wednesday 20 Nov session.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please take note of the following in reference to the Final Report:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]>The Executive Summary for this report is unlike other GNSO reports due to the length and complex recommendations.  Therefore the WG’s recommendations have been promoted to top of the report’s main body for quicker access.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]>Given the amount of information gathered to deliberate this issue, supplement PDF attachments have been provided to reduce the size of the Final Report and to provide easier reference to community input and the WG’s Consensus
 Call response.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]>In particular, Minority Position statements are provided in Supplement A.  However, this supplement is yet to be finalized.  In order to meet the 10 Nov 2013 GNSO Council Motions & Documents Deadline, the minority positions were
 migrated to the supplement and WG stakeholders have until 15 Nov 2013 @ 23:59 to submit revisions or new positions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><![endif]>This email notice contains all the required documents and a separate email will be sent to the GNSO Council with HTML links to the posted documents on the IGO-INGO webpage.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE:  The motion is really long, so it is included in the first attachment entitled “IGO-INGO Motion 10-Nov-2013.pdf.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to congratulate the group on their extremely hard work and diligence through this very complex and at times contentious issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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