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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Technical difficulties impacted the timely delivery of today’s issue of the ICANN Community Leadership Digest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Information Sharing</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BF3F2F">CLOSES TOMORROW:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CF8F12"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In accordance with the ICANN Bylaws and Terms of Reference agreed to by ICANN's Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees (SO and ACs), a Community Representatives
Group is being formed that will work with ICANN org to select a slate of nominees for a Standing Panel to hear disputes filed under ICANN's Independent Review Process (IRP). All applications to join the Community Representatives Group will be reviewed by the
specific SO or AC whose endorsement is being sought. The closing date is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Friday, 4 December 2020</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bylaws require ICANN org to work with all SO and ACs to ensure that a Standing Panel is constituted for the IRP, an important accountability mechanism under the
Bylaws. The requirements and process is documented via the wiki space:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/ESPFIRP" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#368A9C">https://community.icann.org/display/ESPFIRP</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The GNSO Council is requesting that interested Supporting Organizations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs), and GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies consider appointing
members to the Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) Work Track, a group to be formed within an ongoing Policy Development Process (PDP) reviewing all rights protection mechanisms in all gTLDs at the second level of the domain name system.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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December 2020</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by notifying the GNSO Secretariat at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#368A9C">gnso-secs@icann.org</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#368A9C">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">David
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The 2021 ICANN Community Excellence Award will be presented during ICANN71. A community selection panel will be formed to review the nominations and select the award
recipient. Ideally, panelists will serve a maximum of two consecutive terms on the selection panel to ensure diversity and equal opportunity among community members. The time commitment for the selection panel includes weekly one-hour calls between the end
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sally Costerton, Senior Vice
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ICANN has<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-11-16-en__;!!PtGJab4!p27ZYPxU03Diq3DTI6h-ycE1Y1chjQ5dZBEfWeEFCWZLsCjBkdL4u6IgDIStpInCw1nfbxfURQ$" target="_blank"><span style="color:#368A9C">announced</span>
[icann.org]</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">a call for nominees to volunteer to serve
as mentors to the Fellowship Program and as members to its Selection Committee. There will be a total of seven mentors and seven Selection Committee members, and each group is welcome to nominate one individual for each role.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Interested Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees should select their respective Fellowship Program mentor and Selection Committee representative by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Sunday,
31 January 2021<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and notify<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="mailto:fellowshipconsultation@icann.org" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#368A9C">fellowshipconsultation@icann.org</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
Individual self-nominations will not be considered.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Criteria for mentors and Selection Committee members can be found<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-11-16-en__;!!PtGJab4!p27ZYPxU03Diq3DTI6h-ycE1Y1chjQ5dZBEfWeEFCWZLsCjBkdL4u6IgDIStpInCw1nfbxfURQ$" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#368A9C">here</span></b>
[icann.org]</a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions are due on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Friday, 29 January 2021 at 23:59 UTC<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="mailto:planning@icann.org" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#48A199">planning@icann.org</span></b></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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for ICANN’s Root Name Service Strategy and Implementation</span></b> [icann.org]</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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