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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear All, <br><br></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The next </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 September 2013 at 1900 UTC</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Please find the MP3 </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; ">recording of the <span class="apple-style-span">Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting held on </span><b>Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 19:00UTC</b>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-sci-20130806-en.mp3" style="font-size: 15px;">http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-sci-20130806-en.mp3</a></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br></div></span></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">On page:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#oct">http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#</a>aug</u></font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br>(transcripts and recording are found on the calendar page)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Attendees:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; ">Ronald Andruff Commercial and Business Users Constituency Primary </span><span style="font-size: 15px; "></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "> Chair</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Angie Graves - Commercial and Business Users Constituency Alternate</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Mikey OConnor ISPCP Alternate</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Anne Aikman-Scalese IPC Primary</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Avri Doria Non Commercial SG Primary Vice-Chair</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">Edward Morris - NCUC Primary</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; ">Nuno Garcia NCUC - Alternate</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Ken Bour </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; "> guest speaker</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><b>Apologies:</b></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Jennifer Wolfe NCA primary</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Amr Elsadr NCUC Alternate</span><br></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; ">James Bladel </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; "> Registrar Stakeholder Group </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; "> Primary</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; "><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">ICANN Staff:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br>Marika Konings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Julie Hedlund</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Julia Charvolen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></b></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; ">** Please let me know if your name has been left off the list **</span></p></div><p class="MsoPlainText" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; ">Let me know if you have any questions.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thank you.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Kind rega</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">rds,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Julia Charvolen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For GNSO Secretariat</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><u style="font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; ">Adobe Connect chat transcript</span></u><u style="font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "> 6 August</span></u><u style="font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; "> 2013:</span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:Some WGs have been suffering from holiday fatigue</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Julie Hedlund:Please see the latest Self Assessment Survey at: <a href="http://www.questionpro.com/a/editSurvey.do?surveyID=3582146">http://www.questionpro.com/a/editSurvey.do?surveyID=3582146</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Ken Bour:<a href="http://scitestwg.questionpro.com/">http://scitestwg.questionpro.com</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Julia Charvolen:Please mute your microphones for the echo if you are not speaking</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Avri Doria:Needs to include NCSG,s not all NCSG are either in NCUC or npoc NC</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:I am watching ;-)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Ken Bour:Thanks, Avri</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Avri Doria:Just did it.it its ready for wider testing.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Ken Bour:I will drop off and start work on the memo.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Ron A:Thank you, Ken!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Mike O'Connor:James Bladel sends regrets for the call today</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Julia Charvolen:Thank you Mikey , noted!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:The PDP Manual is part of the GNSO Operating Procedures</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:Like the GNSO Working Group Guidelines</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:They should be consistent - a lot of work went into those ;-)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:@Avri - are you suggesting that supermajority would apply for any changes to the operating procedures?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Avri Doria:Currently I think just majority its required for OP procedure changes.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Avri Doria:So, buy a majority we could downgrade a superiority condition</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:yes, simple majority currently applies</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:@Avri - sorry I misunderstood you. It may be helpful to work your example out as a use case? That may help inform the WG deliberations.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"> Marika Konings:SCI /Council deliberations I mean</span></div><div style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div></span></p></div></div></body></html>