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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Attached, please find the draft minutes of the GNSO Council meeting on the 1st December 2016</font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"> for your review.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">If there are no comments, these minutes will be published on the website as approved, according to the
<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/op-procedures-24jun15-en.pdf">GNSO Rules of Procedure
</a> section 3.5 "If no objections are received within 10 days, the minutes will be deemed to have been approved for posting" on 18 December 2016.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you very much.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">Nathalie</p>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Nathalie Peregrine</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Specialist, SOAC Support (GNSO)</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) </div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Email: <a href="nathalie.peregrine@icann.org ">nathalie.peregrine@icann.org </a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Skype: nathalie.peregrine.icann</div>
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