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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Dear all,</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial">Please find included the informal notes from yesterdays call. The chat and recoding will be published separately.</font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please also note the Action item for all. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kind regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Action all: </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>1. Check summary of responses document to check if responses are captured proporely?</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>2. Is the diversity of responses a concern for you (and why)?</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>3. Please provide a suggestion how to move forward, specifically in light of the diversity</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Request to share on email list (the sooner the better)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Staff will not summarise the responses to the 3 questions above.</b></span></p>
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Next meeting: 25 January 2016, 21.00 UTC</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Informal Notes</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>CWG – Use of Country and Territory Names as top-level domains </b> Monday 11 January 2016 at 2100 UTC </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1. Welcome</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2. Tour de Table on community feedback (esp. Staff overview/analysis paper) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">3. Next steps, incl work plan until Marrakech </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">4. AOB</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>1. Welcome</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">No Apologies received</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">First meeting in 2016</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Summary of community feed-back on Survey on 3-letter codes as TLDs.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Survey is NOT a public comment process, but gathering information.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By Dublin, few responses, following the Dublin meeting several additional responses. To date still awaiting 3 responses</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was important as prep for this meeting. All to look at summary of comments.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Important to note that all responses are captured in original wording, they have NOT been changed.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>2. Tour de Table on community feedback (esp. Staff overview/analysis paper) </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><i>Lars to provide overview</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Document based on feed-back received. Other, second document includes full submissions. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Caveat, not all responses received yet</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From page 3 onwards summary overview of responses. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Staff observation: GNSO realtively cohesive, compared to ccTLD responses ( see overview).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some of the arguments are more a justification of desired outcome.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Group is advised to work other way around. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Start from existing policy and then move into what is needed </span></p>
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<font face="Arial">Emphasise</font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">: no changes made to input recevied.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When you go through to comments, NOTE this is NOT a public comment. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is a starting point for discussion. Feed-back not be treated as comment in Public comment process</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><i>Tour de table</i></b></span></p>
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<font face="Arial">Heather Forrest: What is helpful from piechart overviews: wide range of input. No unanimaty from community. Secondly note some of responses are constituency based, for example the IPC. They reflect view of larger group. </font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Example: from GNSO input per constituency, consituency could reflect more then one entity</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ohter comments?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Move forward as with two-letter ?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Check general principles?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Annebeth Lange Members asked to share their views. Members should share their thoughts. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">(From chat) Co-chairs, really need you as WG members to come with your views. We are here as facilitators, but it is difficult without comments from you. Lars and his team have done an excellent job to summarize and tried to make an analysis, but we really need your views on that.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Carlos: Co-chairs are interested in putting for a strawman bfeore Marrakesh meeting.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Laura Hutchinson (from chat): I support the idea of using the document created by staff as a starting point. The strawman document worked very well for the first part of our work so think it would make sense to follow that method again this time.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">General discussion: What policy rationale can drive the outcome. Need to defend the recommendation</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">No uniform position. Be careful what policy can drive</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Suggestion for change: </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">First goal is whether it is possible to define a framework? </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Is it possible to find a common ground</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Defintion in CTN documents should reflect purpose in charter: not to develop policy. The terms are </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Feasibility" and "definitional framework" </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Paul Szyndler: </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Staff needs guidance to start work. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is in remit of CTN to talk about agreed principles. An acceptable outcome could also be that there
is no acceptable set of principles.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Action all: </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>1. Check if responses are captured proporely?</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>2. Concern is there is diversity?</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>3. Suggestion how to move forward, specifically in light of the diversity</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Request to share on email list (the sooner the better)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Staff will not summarise the responses ot 3 questions.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>3. Next steps, incl work plan until Marrakech</b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Based on responses to 3 questions, chart work to Marrakesh</span></p>
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<font face="Arial">Include general observations in document what "status quo” means for use of 3 letter-codes as TLDs. Working definition of status quo: Confirm policies and their implementation (add examples of 3 -letter codes, including overview/number of 3-letter codes
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>4. AOB</b></span></p>
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<b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">S</b><font face="Arial">taff support: Understanding that GAC would like to have meeting with leadership of the group ( tentatively and preferably on Sunday afternoon, 6 March 2016).</font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Suggestion: not to make it a leadership meeting from CTN side.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Staff understanding: Whole of the GAC, needs to be confirmed.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">No further comments.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Closure at 21.55</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Next meeting 25 January 2016, 21.00 UTC</b></span></p>
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