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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear James,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This will get posted to the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/correspondence">
Correspondence page</a> on the GNSO website shortly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nathalie<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"><council-bounces@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of James Bladel <jbladel@godaddy.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, September 1, 2017 at 7:28 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[council] Fwd: ccNSO Council letter to the GNSO Council regarding WT5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues -<br>
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See below and attached for a letter from Katrina Sataki regarding the ccNSO's participation in Work Track 5 (of the Subsequent Procedures PDP). We will ensure this is added to our next meeting agenda, as well as referring it to the leadership of the SubPro
PDP.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Thank you,<br>
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J.<br>
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James Bladel<br>
GNSO Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>From:</b> Katrina Sataki <katrina@nic.lv><br>
<b>Date:</b> Sep 1, 2017, 09:08 -0500<br>
<b>To:</b> James M. Bladel <jbladel@godaddy.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch <Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch>, 'Alan Greenberg' <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>, 'Steve Crocker' <steve.crocker@board.icann.org>, 'Chris Disspain' <chris@disspain.uk>, 'Mike Silber' <mike.silber@board.icann.org>, goran.marby@icann.org
<goran.marby@icann.org>, avri@apc.org <avri@apc.org>, jeff.neuman@comlaude.com <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com>, 'Annebeth Lange' <annebeth.lange@uninett.no>, ccnso-council@icann.org <ccnso-council@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ccNSO Council letter to the GNSO Council regarding WT5<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear James,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On behalf of the ccNSO Council I am sending you a letter regarding the Working Track 5.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">By adopting the final paper published by the Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Country/Territory Names as TLDs (CCWG UCTN) the ccNSO supported the recommendation of the CCWG
UCTN that further work on the development of a consistent and uniform framework to guide the definition of rules on the use of country and territory names as top level domains, is needed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The ccNSO designated Annebeth Lange, .no, to serve as a co-leader of a new Working Track 5 (WT5) within the GNSO’s New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group.
<span style="color:black">We look forward to working with the GNSO and other SO/ACs in the next effort to address the use of country and territory names as top-level domains.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">However, the ccNSO Council strongly believes that this effort will succeed and will be acceptable only if certain requirements are met.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Katrina Sataki<o:p></o:p></p>
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