<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>[Sending the email below on behalf of Petter Rindforth and Philip Corwin, WG co-chairs]</b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear WG members,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please be informed that after consultation with ICANN staff we have decided to reschedule our Working Group meeting, originally planned for this Wednesday 22 July, to end-July or early August.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> We are informed that the “small group” meeting between representatives of the IGO coalition and ICANN Board members was a positive one, and that an updated proposal is likely to be forwarded to the GAC and the GNSO for their review and action by September. This is in </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">line with the GAC’s Buenos Aires Communique and the objectives of the “small group” process when it was formed to discuss the initial March 2014 proposal from the Board’s New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC).</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font color="#1f497d"> </font>The IGO coalition and Board are discussing issues that extend beyond but are related to our work.</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">With the aim to facilitate further progress of the policy development process, and to take into account the context of our work, which includes the need to resolve the outstanding inconsistencies between the GNSO’s initial policy recommendations on so-called “preventative” protections and GAC advice received on the topic, we </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">plan to hold a call very soon, along with </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jonathan Robinson as GNSO Chair, Thomas Rickert as chair of the original GNSO PDP on IGO protections, and Mason as the GAC-GNSO liaison,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> with Chris Disspain (Board/NGPC member) and Thomas Schneider (GAC Chair) within the coming week. The aim of the call is for us to receive a first-hand update on the work of the “small group” and discuss the likely progress within the GNSO, GAC and Board on the overall topic of IGO protections</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">as well as how this WG relates to the larger picture</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As such, we believe that it would be most effective and productive if we were to have our next WG meeting following this call.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We will provide more details and a tentative time for the next WG call as soon as possible.<b style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Petter and Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div><div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div></div></div></body></html>