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<div>Thank you, David.</div>
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<div>If other Councilors could weigh in with their thoughts/edits by Tuesday of this week (24 MAY), that would be great. We’ll then get this posted to the Board.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org">owner-council@gnso.icann.org</a>> on behalf of David Cake <<a href="mailto:davecake@gmail.com">davecake@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 23:36 <br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Mary Wong <<a href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org">mary.wong@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>GNSO Council List <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [council] Draft Letter to the Board on Red Cross Names & Identifier<br>
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No objection to that letter.
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<div class="">On 20 May 2016, at 12:22 PM, Mary Wong <<a href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org" class="">mary.wong@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Following further consultations between the Council chairs and staff on this matter, the chairs would like to provide the attached letter for your final review before it is sent to the ICANN Board.
Essentially, this is the version suggested by the RySG (per Donna’s earlier note, below) but with a single revision at the end of the second paragraph, to clarify that the GNSO’s IGO and Red Cross recommendations originated in a single PDP.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Please indicate any objections or concerns you may have with this proposed final version of the letter to the Board by COB in your time zone on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Monday
23 May</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if at all possible, following which we will transmit the final letter to the Board shortly thereafter on behalf of Donna, Heather, James and the Council.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[council] Draft Letter to the Board on Red Cross Names & Identifier<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Following on from the discussion on the Council call yesterday about next steps in resolving the issue of permanent protection of certain Red Cross identifiers, the RySG
has requested that the letter to the Board be amended to request an update/resolution of the outstanding issues related to the permanent protection of certain Red Cross identifiers and IGO acronyms. These issues have not previously been decoupled and we are
concerned that if the Council suggests this as a path forward at this point it may be at the expense of resolving the remaining issues associated with IGO acronyms.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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