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<DIV>Let me join this chorus.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">I’m looking
forward to work with you during the next year and wish you all the
best.<BR><BR>Wolf-Ulrich<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crg@isoc-cr.org
href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org">Carlos Raul Gutierrez</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 24, 2015 4:44 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=marika.konings@icann.org
href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org">Marika Konings</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=council@gnso.icann.org
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">mailto:council@gnso.icann.org</A> ; <A
title=jbladel@godaddy.com href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com">James M. Bladel</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [council] FW: [Soac-infoalert] FINAL UPDATE. December
2015 Policy Update</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P dir=ltr>Thank you and happy holiday dear (and GREAT) Staff!!</P>
<P dir=ltr>Carlos Raúl</P>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Dec 24, 2015 7:49 AM, "Marika Konings" <<A
href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org">marika.konings@icann.org</A>>
wrote:<BR type="attribution">
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<DIV></DIV>
<DIV>For your information, the GNSO Team will be exploring alternative ways to
ensure timely updates on GNSO developments. If you have any ideas or
suggestions how we can facilitate the dissemination of information to a broad
audience, please let us know. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best regards and happy holidays to all!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Marika</DIV>
<DIV><BR>On Dec 24, 2015, at 07:15, James M. Bladel <<A
href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com" target=_blank>jbladel@godaddy.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Colleagues:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Wanted to be sure everyone saw David’s announcement regarding future
Monthly Policy Updates.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks—</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>J.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </SPAN><<A
href="mailto:soac-infoalert-bounces@icann.org"
target=_blank>soac-infoalert-bounces@icann.org</A>> on behalf of David
Olive <<A href="mailto:david.olive@icann.org"
target=_blank>david.olive@icann.org</A>><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Date: </SPAN>Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 13:04
<BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </SPAN>"<A
href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org"
target=_blank>soac-infoalert@icann.org</A>" <<A
href="mailto:soac-infoalert@icann.org"
target=_blank>soac-infoalert@icann.org</A>><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </SPAN>[Soac-infoalert] FINAL UPDATE.
December 2015 Policy Update<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>For more than nine years, the Policy
Development Support team has provided monthly
updates on the work of the <ABBR
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</ABBR>
community related to policy development. The
goal of this effort has been and continues to be
to keep all of our stakeholders (from seasoned
veterans to newcomers) informed on a regular
basis about the policy development related
activities of our community. We have evolved
this publication in that time and continue to
adapt.
<P
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have observed over time that fewer and fewer
community members are reading the updates via
traditional email channels, and we believe that
more will benefit from broader promotion and
dissemination of our updates via social media
platforms and dynamic multilingual translations.
As a consequence, this issue marks the final
monthly issue of Policy Update in its present
format.</P>
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collaboration with the <ABBR
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</ABBR>
Communications team, we will now be publishing
monthly updates about policy development
activities across <ABBR
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</ABBR>'s
four regional newsletters. This new content
publication approach will align quality updates
about policy developments with new content from
<ABBR
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</ABBR>'s
engagement activity teams.</P>
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January, we will provide information to you via
email for how to update your subscription
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timely messages on the <ABBR
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you for your steadfast readership of the monthly
publication over the years. Policy Update would
not have succeeded without your feedback and
support. We hope this broader and more
comprehensive communications strategy will
improve the delivery of information to you. As
we continue to evolve and fine-tune our
information delivery methods, I continue to
welcome any and all your ideas and feedback.</P>
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Olive</STRONG><BR>Senior Vice President, Policy
Development Support<BR>General Manager, Istanbul
Hub Office</P></DIV>
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Across ICANN</H2></DIV>
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target=_blank>Issues Currently Open for Public
Comment</A></DIV>
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Organizations (SOs)</H2></DIV>
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<A
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target=_blank>FIRE Africa and the Seed
Alliance</A><BR><BR><A
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href="http://icann.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=cd1710218a&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank>Regional Internet Registries
Number Resource Policy Discussions</A></DIV>
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<H3
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<A
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href="http://icann.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=d5eb7a6976&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank>New <ABBR
title="Generic Names Supporting Organization">GNSO</ABBR>
Council Leadership Team</A><BR><BR><A
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href="http://icann.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=3e6d4cfdf8&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank>Paving the Way for a Next
Generation <ABBR
title="generic Top Level Domain">gTLD</ABBR>
Registration Directory Service</A><BR><BR><A
style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #005581"
href="http://icann.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=396d5ce97b&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank>Privacy and Proxy Services
Accreditation Issues Working Group Publishes
Final Report with all<ABBR
title=Consensus>Consensus</ABBR>
Recommendations</A></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
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<H2
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Committees (ACs)</H2></DIV>
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<H3
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<A
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href="http://icann.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=30f2aef3ad&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank><ABBR
title="At-Large Advisory Committee">ALAC</ABBR>
Policy Advice Development Activity</A><BR><BR><A
style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #005581"
href="http://icann.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=c19f2a5e57&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank>RALO Update</A></DIV>
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<H3
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<A
style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #005581"
href="http://icann.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=9751390c9b&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank><ABBR
title="Governmental Advisory Committee">GAC</ABBR>
Prepares for ICANN55</A></DIV>
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<H3
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href="http://icann.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=818d573897ed5ea25ee71ebc1&id=bc1e2ded01&e=26892d65c1"
target=_blank><ABBR
title="Root Server System Advisory Committee">RSSAC</ABBR>
Publishes Advisory on Service Expectations of
<ABBR title="Root Servers">Root
Servers</ABBR></A></DIV>
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