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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Councillors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The GNSO Council passed the following
<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions"><span style="color:windowtext">resolution</span></a> at its meeting on 12 May 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Consent agenda<br>
Council confirmation of Kathy Kleiman, Philip Corwin and J. Scott Evans as co-chairs for the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/RARPMRIAGPWG/Review+of+all+Rights+Protection+Mechanisms+%28RPMs%29+in+all+gTLDs+PDP+Working+Group+Home"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Review
 of all Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in all gTLDs Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group</span></a>.
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/motion-recorder-confirmation-rpm-review-12may16-en.pdf"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">Voting results</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The transcript of the Council meeting is published to:<br>
<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-12may16-en.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext">http://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-council-12may16-en.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On page :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#may"><span style="color:windowtext">http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#may</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The next GNSO Council Public Meeting will take place in Helsinki on Thursday, 30 July 2016 at 07:45 UTC (10:45 EEST Local Time).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR">Thank you.<br>
Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR">Glen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">Glen de Saint Géry<br>
GNSO Secretariat<br>
</span><b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"><br>
</span><b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://gnso.icann.org</span></a></span></b><span lang="FR-BE" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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