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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear Councilors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Attached please find a Motion to Adoption of the Policy Development Process on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Final Report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The motion is structured in such a way that the Council will be voting on the Final Report as one package. That said, because two of the hundreds of Outputs had strong support but significant
opposition, we have bifurcated the resolved clauses to (a) recommend the implementation of those Outputs that had either consensus or full consensus designations and (b) <i>consider</i> the Outputs that have strong support but significant opposition as well
as the associated rationale in the report and the minority statements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We believe that providing the entire report to the Board for its consideration is important for the Board to understand how we arrived at where we are and to give those very few areas
without consensus some context. We are not stating that the Board MUST implement those elements that did not have consensus, but we are giving them full information so that either they can make a decision on how to proceed on those, or ask for future work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Although there are these couple Outputs that did not attain at least Consensus, and one Output (Closed Generics) where there is consensus that there is no agreement, we do not believe
that a Council substantive discussion on these issues or remanding it back to the Working Group, would result in a different result. There are good arguments on all sides of these issues and the Working Group spent a number of years trying to come up with
compromise proposals without success. These are areas where we believe that guidance from the Board will be necessary to make further progress on these issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Should you have questions, I am at your disposal for a call to discuss these. I would appreciate it should you share your questions in the list beforehand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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