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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Following the input from the ICANN Board, please find attached an updated version of the draft charter which incorporates this input in section V.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>As a reminder, please share any comments and/or proposed edits you may have with the mailing list ahead of the next DT meeting which is scheduled for Wednesday at 19.30 UTC. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Marika<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Marika Konings</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Senior Policy Director & Team Leader for the GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Email: <a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org">marika.konings@icann.org</a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Find out more about the GNSO by taking our <a href="http://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso">interactive courses</a> and visiting the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-efforts.htm#newcomers">GNSO Newcomer pages</a>.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Cambria'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'><dt-cwg-auctionproceeds-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Lauren Allison <lauren.allison@icann.org><br><b>Date: </b>Saturday 27 August 2016 at 12:08<br><b>To: </b>Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson@afilias.info>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca><br><b>Cc: </b>"dt-cwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org" <dt-cwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org><br><b>Subject: </b>[Dt-cwg-auctionproceeds] Language on Board Consideration<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear Jonathan and Alan,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On behalf of Asha and Erika as Board Liaisons to the Drafting Team, I am sending the below note from the ICANN Board in relation to the opportunity to provide language on Section 5 of the Draft Charter under ‘Board Consideration’:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Board thanks the drafting team for its work in drafting a charter for the eventual Cross Community Working Group to develop a proposal(s) for the disbursement of the auction proceeds stemming from the auctions held by an ICANN authorized auction provider to resolve string contention as a method of last resort in the New gTLD Program</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:84.0pt;text-indent:-48.0pt;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:84.0pt;text-indent:-48.0pt;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Board looks forward to the completion of the charter of the CCWG on New gTLD Auction Proceeds, as well as the eventual recommendations of the CCWG</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:84.0pt;text-indent:-48.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:84.0pt;text-indent:-48.0pt;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Board commits to the following principle when considering the consensus-based recommendations of the CCWG:</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:108.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Board agrees to enter into a dialogue with the CCWG if the Board does not believe that it can accept a recommendation (including, for example, where Board’s fiduciary responsibilities or legal obligations are impacted, or other obligations under the Bylaws or related Articles may be impacted)</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lauren</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>