<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Dear Counsellors,</div><div><br></div><div>As a reminder for Thursday’s Council call, please find attached again the IRTP-D Self Assessment Report, the discussion of which which will form <b>Item 10</b> on the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/agenda-council-19mar15-en.htm">agenda</a>. The original email with suggested action items is also attached below.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks and best wishes,</div><div>Lars</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Lars HOFFMANN <<a href="mailto:lars.hoffmann@icann.org">lars.hoffmann@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:14<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Council GNSO <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> IRTP Self Assessment<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Counsellors,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As you will recall, on 26 March 2014 the Council</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, based upon a recommendation from the SCI,</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> approved a questionnaire for Working Groups to conduct Self-Assessments when their work has been substantially finished. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">After an initial test assessment was conducted with the Thick Whois WG, t</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">he first </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">formal survey</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">was recently</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">completed</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> by the members of the IRTP Part D PDP Working Group. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A detailed Survey Administrator’s Report containing data tables, charts, graphs, and analyses has been compiled by an independent consultant and is</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> attached for your review. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In relation to the Report, Counsellors may wish to:</span></p><ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">D</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">iscuss how best to utilize this material in terms of </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">future </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">revisions</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> to the PDP Manual and/or GNSO WG Guidelines;</span></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">D</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3">iscuss whether </font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">forwarded</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> to Westlake </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">as input to its on-going</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> GNSO</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Review. </span></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3">You may want to consider discussing these and any other possible options during your forthcoming Council call on 19 March</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3">.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you have any further questions/comments, please do not hesitate to get in touch either on-list or off.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Many thanks and best wishes,</span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Lars</span></p></div></div></div></span></body></html>