<div>In response to Paul:</div>
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<div>First, it has nothing to do with application fees. </div>
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<div>During the ICANN meeting in Helsinki there were a number of comments on the topic of timing of the next round made to the ICANN Board in public fora. The comments were mostly eloquent, on the mark and included the following points:</div>
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<li>one of the conditions to launching the 2012 round was to have another round in a short period of time to afford the same opportunity to those that might not be reached by the ICANN communications in time </li>
<li>eight years between rounds is incongruent with the goal of a smoothly running, well-managed process; in fact, it is embarrassing for the whole multistakeholder model</li>
<li>there is no point of accountability (person, department, organization) for getting the next round launched in a timely matter</li>
<li>the set of postulated, highly dreaded, highly harmful outcomes as a result of new gTLDs did not materialize</li>
<li>we spent years developing the current policy and its implementation model, the path to a close-in-time next round could never be to re-examine every aspect of that policy but rather to make mid-course corrections on the areas needing that</li>
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<div>In my opinion, some or all of these points evidently resonated with the Board. I believe the letter was the result of those interchanges at the Helsinki meeting. </div>
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<div>Kurt</div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Letter from Steve Crocker to GNSO Council Chair<br />From: policy@paulmcgrady.com<br />Date: 8/16/16 1:05 pm<br />To: "Jeff Neuman" <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com>, "gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" <gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org><br /><br />
<div>Thanks Jeff.</div>
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<div>Is there any indication of why this letter was sent? Is it pressure from groups wanting another round for business reasons? Is ICANN in need of more application money? I don't mind feeling under a bit of pressure from the Board to move with all due speed, but I'd like to understand the "why" here. Any thoughts (from you or from the list)?</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt;"><a name="_MailEndCompose" target="_blank"></a><span style="color: #1f497d;">Resending as I mistakenly put Volker on this email as opposed to Donna. Sorry for the duplication.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>From:</strong> Jeff Neuman <br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Tuesday, August 9, 2016 1:44 PM<br /> <strong>To:</strong> <a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a><br /> <strong>Cc:</strong> James Bladel (<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>>; Heather Forrest <<a href="mailto:Heather.Forrest@acu.edu.au">Heather.Forrest@acu.edu.au</a>>; Volker Greimann <<a href="mailto:vgreimann@key-systems.net">vgreimann@key-systems.net</a>><br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> Letter from Steve Crocker to GNSO Council Chair</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt;">I came across this letter in passing and thought it was useful to send to the group as it relates to our work. One of the items I would like to ask each work track to think about is the key question raised here:, namely within the work tracks, “Are there a set of critical issues that can be identified to be addressed prior to a new application process?” Or, is it the view of the Community that the entire PDP must be completed prior to a new process?</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt;">I believe the identification of these issues is a critical first step of the work tracks and will help to produce work plans for the respective tracks. I am cc’ing GNSO Council leadership on this email to keep them in the loop.</div>
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