<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Marc: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I accept your advice. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have some your same concerns but thought the proposed course was acceptable and necessary because: </div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">We have had substantive discussion on Appendix A during the triage section. The slides and the issues listed therein were based on that. Now we are looking for suggested solutions to the issues raised in the triage discussion.</li><li class="">Given the triage discussion and the fact that we would have a kickoff discussion describing them with the small group, we felt that the participants would be sufficiently informed by the sense of the full group</li><li class="">Participation is open so no one interested in participating directly would be excluded</li><li class="">The whole time is of the you-know-what thing, I was looking for a way to have some proposals on the table for Appendix A for the LA meeting. </li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I will continue to consider ways to start discussion of Appendix A offline as a prep to a meeting discussion. Milton had suggested a poll that listed each redacted datum and asked if the group agreed with each or not. Even though we haven’t finished the data element discussion yet, it might be beneficial to undertake that. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marc (and others) if you have thoughts on how to move the appendix A discussion forward, pleas get them out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kurt</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 14, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Anderson, Marc <<a href="mailto:mcanderson@verisign.com" class="">mcanderson@verisign.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Marika, thank you for the clarification, however I believe my point still stands. Volunteers should not start working on proposed recommendations / modifications after input has been received, rather they should do so after a level of agreement on what those recommendations / modifications should be has been achieved by the working group.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Marc<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Marika Konings <<a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org" class="">marika.konings@icann.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, September 14, 2018 10:34 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anderson, Marc <<a href="mailto:mcanderson@verisign.com" class="">mcanderson@verisign.com</a>>; Kurt Pritz <<a href="mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com" class="">kurt@kjpritz.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team@icann.org" class="">gnso-epdp-team@icann.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Gnso-epdp-team] Input on Appendix A - Input due by Sunday 16 September<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Marc, apologies if there is confusion around the ask for volunteers, but the idea is that the volunteers would only start working on proposed recommendations / modifications AFTER input has been received on the issues and questions as outlined in the Google Doc. Having those volunteers identified early on could help in asking further clarifying questions based on input that is provided, but it is not the intention that these volunteers would start working on Appendix A without any guidance from the EPDP Team. I hope this clarifies. Having said that, please take a moment to review the google doc and provide your feedback on the questions identified.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Marika<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="" class="">Gnso-epdp-team <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of "Anderson, Marc via Gnso-epdp-team" <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-epdp-team@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Anderson, Marc" <<a href="mailto:mcanderson@verisign.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">mcanderson@verisign.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, September 14, 2018 at 08:27<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Kurt Pritz <<a href="mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">kurt@kjpritz.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-epdp-team@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-epdp-team@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Gnso-epdp-team] Input on Appendix A - Input due by Sunday 16 September<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Kurt and ePDP leadership team,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I would like to ask you to reconsider asking for volunteers at this stage to propose recommendations/modification (redlining) appendix A. The working group has yet to deliberate on appendix A in any meaningful way and at a minimum should have some high level agreement on what aspects of appendix A are good and should be kept and what aspects are problematic and need to be changed, added to or removed. I fear asking for working group members to work on redlines now will lead to the group debating the redlines rather than focusing on the substance of Appendix A and working towards consensus policy recommendations.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I understand that not getting to appendix A deliberations during Thursday’s call puts us behind scheduled and appreciate the desire to catch up. That said, appendix A contains many of the critical components of the temporary specification. We as a working group need to come to some level of agreement before drafting redlines or otherwise making policy recommendation on appendix A.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Marc</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gnso-epdp-team <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Marika Konings<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:31 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-epdp-team@icann.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL] [Gnso-epdp-team] Input on Appendix A - Input due by Sunday 16 September</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear All,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">As discussed during the call today, please provide your input on the Appendix A related issues through this document:<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M2XdbXZsvfYfsxdR1xG2qT7XZ07AopJubRH8ZX1Qt3s/edit?usp=sharing" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M2XdbXZsvfYfsxdR1xG2qT7XZ07AopJubRH8ZX1Qt3s/edit?usp=sharing</a>. Also, if there are volunteers to work on reviewing the input received and translating these into proposed recommendations / modifications for Appendix A, share your interest with the mailing list.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Thanks,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Caitlin, Berry and Marika</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Marika Konings</span></i></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Vice President, Policy Development Support – GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">marika.konings@icann.org</a> </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Find out more about the GNSO by taking our <a href="http://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">interactive courses</a> and visiting the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-efforts.htm#newcomers" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">GNSO Newcomer pages</a>. </span></i></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>