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<div style="font-size: 14px;">Attached, please find a letter form Steve Crocker/ICANN Board to the Council, regarding the work on subsequent rounds of New gTLDs. (Per Wendy’s note, the letter has not yet been posted on the ICANN Correspondence page, but expected
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Note that the letter contains a specific request to the GNSO:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><font size="3">‘<span style="font-family: SourceSansPro;">For example, assuming all other review activities are completed, it would be helpful to understand whether the GNSO believes that the entirety of the current Subsequent Procedures PDP must be completed
prior to advancing a new application process under the current policy recommendations. The Board is cognizant that it may be difficult to provide a firm answer at this stage of the process as the reviews are still underway and the PDP is in its initial stages
of work, but if any consideration has been given in relation to whether a future application process could proceed while policy work continues and be iteratively applied to the process for allocating new gTLDs, or that a set of critical issues could be identified
to be addressed prior to a new application process, the Board would welcome that input.</span></font></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: SourceSansPro;"> </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">The Board would also welcome any elaboration on the expected time frame outlined in the PDP Work Plan, as well as any additional points the GNSO might wish to clarify for
the Board in its efforts to support the various areas of work underway in the multistakeholder community’.</i></p>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">I propose that we add this question/topic, and the letter itself, to our 1 SEP meeting agenda as a discussion item, and that we examine ideas on how to proceed on responding to this question. If this is amenable, I would also ask
Staff to draft a brief note to Steve, acknowledging the receipt of this letter and noting that it would be discussed during our next meeting.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">Thoughts on this approach?</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">Thank you,</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">J.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Wendy Profit <<a href="mailto:wendy.profit@icann.org">wendy.profit@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, August 5, 2016 at 14:19 <br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>James Bladel <<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>>, Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:gnso-secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso-secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a>>, Marika Konings <<a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org">marika.konings@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Steve Crocker <<a href="mailto:steve.crocker@board.icann.org">steve.crocker@board.icann.org</a>>, Icann-board ICANN <<a href="mailto:icann-board@icann.org">icann-board@icann.org</a>>, board-support <<a href="mailto:board-support@icann.org">board-support@icann.org</a>>,
Akram Atallah <<a href="mailto:akram.atallah@icann.org">akram.atallah@icann.org</a>>, Erika Randall <<a href="mailto:erika.randall@icann.org">erika.randall@icann.org</a>>, Daniel Halloran <<a href="mailto:daniel.halloran@icann.org">daniel.halloran@icann.org</a>>,
Eleeza Agopian <<a href="mailto:eleeza.agopian@icann.org">eleeza.agopian@icann.org</a>>, Jamie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:jamie.hedlund@icann.org">jamie.hedlund@icann.org</a>>, Karen Lentz <<a href="mailto:karen.lentz@icann.org">karen.lentz@icann.org</a>>, Cyrus
Namazi <<a href="mailto:cyrus.namazi@icann.org">cyrus.namazi@icann.org</a>>, Cristina Flores <<a href="mailto:cristina.flores@icann.org">cristina.flores@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Correspondence] Letter from Steve Crocker to James Bladel, Chair, GNSO Council<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear James Bladel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please find the attached letter from Steve Crocker, Chair, ICANN Board of Directors regarding subsequent New gTLD rounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The letter will be posted shortly to the ICANN Correspondence and New gTLD Correspondence pages:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/correspondence</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/correspondence">https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/correspondence</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Wendy Profit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">ICANN Board Operations Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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