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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Councilors -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Attached and copied below, please find a placeholder motion to approve the report & recommendations of the Bylaws Implementation Drafting Team. As discussed during our last call, we have extended the expected
delivery of this report before our next call on 13 OCT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you,<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">J.<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MOTION TO APPROVE THE REPORT FROM THE GNSO BYLAWS IMPLEMENTATION DRAFTING TEAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">WHEREAS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 30 June 2016 the GNSO Council <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions#20160630-2">approved</a> the creation of a Drafting Team (DT) that was to work with ICANN staff to “fully identify all the new or additional
rights and responsibilities that the GNSO has under the revised Bylaws, including but not limited to participation of the GNSO within the Empowered Community, and to develop new or modified structures and procedures (as necessary) to fully implement these
new or additional rights and responsibilities”;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">In creating the DT, the GNSO Council requested that the DT provide the GNSO Council with an implementation plan “which will have the consensus of the Drafting Team, including any recommendations for needed further changes to ICANN
Bylaws and/or GNSO Operating Procedures to enable effective GNSO participation in ICANN activities under the revised ICANN Bylaws, not later than 30 September 2016”;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The DT submitted its report to the GNSO Council on
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">[DATE] (also insert link to report when available)</span>;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The GNSO Council has reviewed the DT’s report;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">RESOLVED:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The GNSO Council approves the consensus recommendations in DT’s report as submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The GNSO Council directs ICANN staff to draft proposed language for any necessary modifications or additions to the GNSO Operating Procedures and, if applicable, those parts of the ICANN Bylaws pertaining to the GNSO, for the
Council’s consideration by no later than [the end of February 2017]. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The GNSO Council directs ICANN staff to post all recommended modifications to or proposed new procedures or structures for public comment prior to the Council’s consideration of the proposals. As resolved previously, the GNSO
Council intends to intends to adopt new, or proposed modifications to existing procedures and structures to implement the revised Bylaws for the GNSO by a GNSO supermajority vote.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">In drafting the proposed language, ICANN staff may wish to consult the DT as needed. The GNSO Council therefore requests that members of the DT make themselves available for consultation by ICANN staff for this purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">The GNSO Council thanks the DT for its hard work on the report, especially in view of the nature of the limited time frame available to the DT.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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