<html><head></head><body>Hi,<div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">I second Matt’s questions/assumptions. Also, I thought that the recommendation(s) on automation was being reviewed by a small team, which met last week. I was under the impression that we should be expecting an updated recommendation to consider on this topic. Is there an action item for us to review something on this, which I might have missed?</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Amr</div><div class=""><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 29, 2020, at 6:07 PM, Matt Serlin <<a href="mailto:matt@brandsight.com" class="">matt@brandsight.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: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 14px; 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: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Janis (and team),<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">One positive of a virtual ICANN meeting is no jetlag so recovery seemed much easier this time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";" class="">😊</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Wanted to just ask a few questions on your note below to make sure I’m understanding everything correctly so if either Janis or staff could clarify, I’d greatly appreciate it…<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I thought we had been given an additional month (end of July) by the GNSO council to conclude our work? I understand Janis we will be losing you as our leader later this week, but I thought the plan was for Rafik to take over for the remainder of our time to get our work completed.<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Perhaps I’m reading your message incorrectly, but I believe it’s entirely possible we could complete our work without agreement on ALL topics, but still have a final report that included a number of recommendations that would have achieved consensus within the group. Obviously we are continuing to work on some of those stickier issues, but I believe it’s entirely possible for us to wrap up Phase 2 without agreement on everything so that whatever is included in the final report would be what’s presented to Council and ultimately the Board.<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Speaking on consensus, it’s not clear to me when we are going to proceed with doing a consensus call by all parties as we look to wrap up Phase 2. I think this is something we should plan to discuss in our meetings this week unless it’s clear to everyone else. And perhaps clarification on point one above will make this more clear.<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">And finally, I just wanted to thank you Janis for all of your leadership throughout this process as you wrap up your service this week regardless of the outcome. You’ve put in a tremendous amount of work to get us to this point and we all owe you our gratitude.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Matt<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></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: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Gnso-epdp-team <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org" class="">gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Janis Karklins <<a href="mailto:karklinsj@gmail.com" class="">karklinsj@gmail.com</a>><br class=""/><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Monday, June 29, 2020 at 2:51 AM<br class=""/><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>EPDP <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-team@icann.org" class="">gnso-epdp-team@icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-lead@icann.org" class="">gnso-epdp-lead@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-epdp-lead@icann.org" class="">gnso-epdp-lead@icann.org</a>><br class=""/><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[Gnso-epdp-team] The final stretch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Team members,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I hope that you have recovered from the ICANN 68.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This message is to remind that we are at an important juncture - to finalize a compromise agreement or to acknowledge the failure to agree. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">It is of utmost importance to provide comments on suggested recs - Automation and mechanism - by end of today. So far no reaction has been received. It would allow us to understand whether agreement is in the reach or not really.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">As you know my availability ends on 30 June. I am prepared to add two additional meetings this week if the objective is attainable and everyone is committed to work towards a consensus proposal. Otherwise, I will propose to stop consideration of the Report and to acknowledge the lack of agreement and failure of the Team with all subsequent consequences.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I am in your hands, dear Team members. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best regards<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">JK</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""/></div></body></html>