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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>GNSO Council,<span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Please find the MP3 recording of the GNSO Council teleconference, held on Thursday, </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>18 May<span style='color:black'> 2017 at: <a href="https://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-18may17-en.mp3">https://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-18may17-en.mp3</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>as well as the Adobe chat at:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-chat-council-18may17-en.pdf"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/transcript-chat-council-18may17-en.pdf</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>And the Adobe recording: </span><a href="https://participate.icann.org/p8ubbtz6a9l/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=1d0b66cd3929354d21560731d101913a0a7092f23edd328723cd77441b3653ca"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white'>https://participate.icann.org/p8ubbtz6a9l/</span></b></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>all on page: </span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#may"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#may</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>In addition, the slide presentations are linked below and attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;font-weight:normal'>Item 5: UPDATE – CCWG-Accountability-WS2 status of work and expected timeline for delivery of Final Report – Presenter: </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Thomas Rickert<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ccwg-acct-ws2-dashboard-18may17-en.pdf"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3B73AF;background:white'>Slide deck</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Item <span style='color:#333333;background:white'>10.1 - Update from the GNSO Standing Selection Committee (SSC) on the its work to select the GNSO representative for the Empowered Committee – Presenter: Susan Kawaguchi<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/meetings/presentation-ssc-gnso-representative-empowered-community-admin-18may17-en.pdf"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3B73AF;background:white'>Slide deck</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Thank you.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Happy listening and reading!</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'>With kind regards,</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'>Terri </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'> ---</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'>Terri Agnew</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Secretariat Services Coordinator, GNSO <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'>Email:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'> </span><a href="mailto:terri.agnew@icann.org"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>terri.agnew@icann.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'>Skype ID:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626'> terri.agnew.icann</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Find out more about the GNSO by taking our i</span><a href="file://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#6B006D'>nteractive courses</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> and visiting the </span><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-efforts.htm#newcomers"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>GNSO Newcomer pages</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>