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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dear Councilors,<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'>Further to Brian’s note below, staff would like to remind you all that the public comment period for the IRTP Policy Status Report is scheduled to close on <b>24 December</b> (<a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/irtp-status-2018-11-14-en">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/irtp-status-2018-11-14-en</a>). Staff and Council leadership would like to take this opportunity to encourage you and your respective groups to provide input to the public comment proceeding, especially if the IRTP is applicable to your group.<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'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Steve<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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Brian Aitchison <brian.aitchison@icann.org><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 9:32 AM<br><b>To: </b>"council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org><br><b>Cc: </b>Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org>, Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Correction Issued: IRTP Policy Status Report (PSR)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Dear GNSO Council, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Following our presentation of the IRTP PSR to the GNSO on 29 November, we were alerted to a labeling error in Sections 1.5 and 2 of the report posted on 14 November 2018. Aggregated transfer numbers in these sections were erroneously labeled as “yearly” rather than “monthly”. These labels have been corrected. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>An updated version of the report and associated slides are attached. The public comment page has also been updated with the corrected version of the report: </span><span style='color:#333333'><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/irtp-status-2018-11-14-en"><span style='color:#954F72'>https://www.icann.org/public-comments/irtp-status-2018-11-14-en</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>The corrections affected the following figures in Sections 1.5 and 2, copy-pasted and highlighted here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>On average, approximately <b>414,000 domain transfers occurred per month—<span style='background:yellow'>or 4,968,000 per year</span>—</b>during<b> </b>the observation period (2009 – 2017)</span><a name="_Ref525197247"></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'>Total domain registrations per year during the observation period ranged from 114,927,682 in October 2009 to 196,396,264 in April 2018, with an average of 156,766,483 yearly domain registrations. This means, on average, <b>total domain transfers represented about <span style='background:yellow'>3%</span> of total domain registrations </b>per year</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>We apologize for the error, and appreciate the Council’s and Community’s diligent reading of the report. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Please let me know of any questions. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='color:black'>All best,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Brian</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Brian Aitchison, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Lead Researcher</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Operations and Policy Research</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Los Angeles, CA</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>p. 424 353 9041</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>e. <a href="mailto:brian.aitchison@icann.org">brian.aitchison@icann.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Sk. brian.aitchison.icann</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>