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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear Councilors,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Please see the attached amended
motion for the GNSO CSC Liaison Selection for consideration at the Council
meeting on 21 July. As noted in the motion, this process began on 1 June
2016, when ICANN sent a request to the ICANN Supporting Organizations (SOs),
Advisory Committees (ACs) and Registry Stakeholder Group (RySG) to initiate
their respective organization's processes and appoint candidates to serve as
members and liaisons on the CSC. As an ICANN Supporting Organization, the GNSO
may appoint a liaison to the CSC, in addition to the two gTLD registry operator
members to be selected by the RySG. Liaison candidates are to be confirmed by 22
July 2016, and the final slate of CSC members and liaisons as determined by the
ccNSO and GNSO Councils will be sent to ICANN not later than 10 August
2016.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">On 02 June 2016, the GNSO
Council confirmed a Selection Committee -- David Cake, Heather Forrest, Rubens
Kuhl, Susan Kawaguchi, and Wolf-Ulrich Knoben -- to evaluate the candidates GNSO
liaison. On 20 June 2016, the Selection Committee sent reminders to the
GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies requesting Expressions of Interest
from candidates to be submitted by 15 July 2016. Another reminder went out
on 11 July.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Selection Committee has
completed its evaluation of the single Expression of Interest that it received
for the GNSO liaison candidate. We hereby submit the summary of our evaluation
of the candidate: James Gannon. Based on our evaluation we recommend James
for the role of GNSO Liaison to the CSC. We have amended the motion
accordingly.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kind
regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Wolf-Ulrich
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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