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<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">The GAC Communique from ICANN60 has just been published, and contains a paragraph on our work. Note that it is not in the section that contains formal GAC advice, and does not contain a specific request to
this Working Group; however, I thought you may wish to note the GAC’s remarks.<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">The relevant text is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“Following its most recent advice adopted in the Copenhagen and Johannesburg Communiqués, the GAC welcomed the progress made by the GNSO's re-convened PDP Working Group on the Protection of IGO-INGO Identifiers
in All gTLDs, tasked with re-examining the GNSO’s past recommendations on the protection of Red Cross and Red Crescent designations, names and identifiers – particularly of the names of national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. The GAC noted that the
acronyms of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC, CICR, MKKK) and of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC, FICR) are defined to fall outside of the remit of the reconvened GNSO Working Group and recalled
its advice (Durban Communiqué, 2013) that these acronyms be made to benefit from the same cost neutral mechanisms to be worked out for the protection of acronyms of IGOs.”<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">The full Communique can be viewed here:
<a href="https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/27132037/GAC%20ICANN60%20Communique_Final.pdf?version=2&modificationDate=1509619814918&api=v2">
https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/27132037/GAC%20ICANN60%20Communique_Final.pdf?version=2&modificationDate=1509619814918&api=v2</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks and cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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