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Dear all,</p>
<p align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Please find included the informal notes from yesterday’s call ( 15 February 21.00 UTC)</font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Kind regards,</font></p>
<p align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Bart</font></p>
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<b>CWG – Use of Country and Territory Names as top-level domains </b> Monday 15 February 2016 at 2100 UTC </p>
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<b>Proposed Agenda</b></p>
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1. Welcome</p>
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2. Staff overview of next steps</p>
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3. F2F Marrakech</p>
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4. AOB</p>
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<b>Apologies</b>: Sanna Sahlman</p>
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<b>Notes & Action Items 15 February 2016</b></p>
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<b>Proposed Agenda</b></p>
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<b>1. Welcome</b></p>
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Lars: Prep call last Friday. At request of co-chairs, staff will run the call as it will be mainly administrative.</p>
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Roll-call: Paul Szyndler on audio only, all other participants in AC.</p>
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<b>2. Staff overview of next steps</b></p>
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How to move forward with 3 -letter codes? Discussed by co-chairs and staff. </p>
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Build on email send by Heather (co-chair) 19 January 2016</p>
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Staff will prepare a Strawman paper, in similarly as to what was done for the two-letter codes.</p>
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The staff document is intended to focus discussion, taking into account the responses received on the 3-letter code survey, in particular those responses that included a rationale for the view.</p>
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Staff intends to deliver the first draft just before the meeting Marrakesh meeting.</p>
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Heather: the comments made around the feed-back received, emphasises that the focus should be on those comments with a stated rationale. Further the straw man should build on the addtional comments and on the 3 questions send out before.</p>
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Annebeth: Notes the divergency in views. Therefore important that divergency is shown , and hence it might be difficult to show/ achieve consensus position.</p>
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<b>3. F2F Marrakech</b></p>
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<b>Monday 7 March: 10.30 - 12.00 local time (= UTC)</b></p>
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Meeting with GAC working group, on Sunday is CANCELlED due to GAC internal discussions on CCWG Accountability Final Proposal. It is now scheduled for ICANN 56.</p>
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Once the strawman avaiable and on the right path, it is suggested to reach out to the GAC, to ensure they are adequately informed.</p>
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No More meeting between now and the f-2-f meeting.</p>
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<b>4. AOB</b></p>
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<div>No addtional comments
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