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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reminder – please provide any comments / edits you may have by Friday 9 December COB. As discussed on the Council call, the objective is to send the response to the CCWG-Accountability Chairs early next week.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Marika<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black"><owner-council@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 12:51 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[council] For your review - draft Council responses to CCWG Accountability survey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In preparation for item 9 – <i>
GNSO Council Response to Questions from the CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs concerning Work Strems</i> (see further details below), please find attached a draft GNSO Council response for your review. Note that this draft only focuses on the GNSO Council aspects
as it is the expectation that GNSO Stakeholder Groups and/or Constituencies will provide their respective responses to the survey.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Marika</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Item 9. COUNCIL DISCUSSION – GNSO Council Response to Questions from the CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs concerning Work Stream 2 (10 minutes)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 4 November 2016, the co-chairs of the Cross Community Working Group on ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) wrote to all SO/AC leaders seeking input by early December on the r</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">esources
and documents used by each SO/AC to maintain accountability to its respective designated community, taking into account the particular or specific working modalities of each SO/AC (and any subgroups) (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gnso.icann.org_mailing-2Dlists_archives_council_msg19440.html-29&d=DgMFAw&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=FOLHRkyP1CJilEE0xYQhJllo1ue6MlXmKJPFl3FO5U8&s=mR_wcp_sCCm1zlfn_Br4l10pr58ZXz409FXmaDqq9NM&e=">https://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg19440.html)[gnso.icann.org]</a>.
The GNSO Council leadership is working on a possible response from the Council, and has requested feedback from each Stakeholder Group and Constituency on the topic. Here the Council will discuss whether or not to send a response to the CCWG-Accountability
co-chairs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9.1 – Status summary (GNSO Council leadership)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9.2 – Council discussion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">9.3 – Next steps</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Marika Konings</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Senior Policy Director & Team Leader for the GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Email: <a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org">
marika.konings@icann.org</a> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Find out more about the GNSO by taking our <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__learn.icann.org_courses_gnso&d=DgMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=JUvsp0pqnW9xOqR38YYmnXEb0KD5k5FiQ8shx129XC0&s=rP4BrSv7CU5Vd1xKAOoQqCJ2X_JCKhl5K2ECaKG6ot0&e=">interactive
courses[learn.icann.org]</a> and visiting the <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_sites_gnso.icann.org_files_gnso_presentations_policy-2Defforts.htm-23newcomers&d=DgMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=JUvsp0pqnW9xOqR38YYmnXEb0KD5k5FiQ8shx129XC0&s=CXYi0k_WafO7X6sRnKi7gwU1nNb6mYhKkqa-kRaPbE8&e=">GNSO
Newcomer pages[gnso.icann.org]</a>. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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