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<p class="MsoNormal">Councilors, See below & attached.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the Empowered Community Administration, I’m pleased to report that the proposed amendments to the Fundamental Bylaws have been unanimously approved by the five Decisional Participants.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to all for contributing to this first ever action of the ECA.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">James Bladel</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">GNSO Chair </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Stephen Deerhake <sdeerhake@nic.as><br>
<b>Organization: </b>AS Domain Registry<br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"sdeerhake@nic.as" <sdeerhake@nic.as><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, July 21, 2017 at 8:34 <br>
<b>To: </b>'John Jeffrey' <john.jeffrey@icann.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"ecadmin@icann.org" <ecadmin@icann.org>, Steve Crocker <steve.crocker@board.icann.org>, Goran Marby <goran.marby@icann.org>, 'John Curran' <jcurran@arin.net>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>, Katrina Sataki <katrina@nic.lv>, "James M. Bladel"
<jbladel@godaddy.com>, "Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch" <Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch>, 'Samantha Eisner' <Samantha.Eisner@icann.org>, "mary.wong@icann.org" <mary.wong@icann.org>, 'Chris Disspain' <chris@disspain.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Empowered Community Approval Notice for Board Resolution 2017.05.18.04 - 2017.05.18.07<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pleased see the attached correspondence from the Empowered Community Administration certifying the decisions made by each Decisional Participant regarding the Fundamental Bylaw change proposed by the ICANN Board of Directors in their Board
resolution 2017.05.18.04 – 2017.05.18.07.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am pleased to report that all five Decisional Participants, through their internal procedures, reached a decision regarding the matter before them, and further, that all five Decisional Participants approved the proposed Bylaw change.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stephen Deerhake<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ccNSO Representative to the Empowered Community Administration<o:p></o:p></p>
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