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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Working Group Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here are the Action Items from the Working Group meeting of 27 July 2016, as well as a note on their status and a link to a Doodle poll that we hope you will fill in at your earliest convenience (with reference
to Action Item #1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></i></b><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Staff to create and circulate a Doodle poll
<u>seeking Members’ views on whether to continue discussing the standard of proof issue at this stage of deliberations on the TM-PDDRP, and on adding voluntary online mediation as an option</u> to the TM-PDDRP (with details to be further worked out) – DONE.
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Note:
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">Please fill out this Doodle poll if you are a Member of the Working Group:
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0070C0"><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/nc8ydu8cbbywtabm"><span style="color:#0070C0">http://doodle.com/poll/nc8ydu8cbbywtabm</span></a>.
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Staff to work with Brian Winterfeldt to draft
<u>follow-up questions for the TM-PDDRP Providers on joint complaints/consolidation</u>, based on what has been discussed by the Working Group to date – IN PROCESS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Staff to inform the GNSO Council that, having done a straw poll of the WG membership, the co-chairs’ consensus view is that there is
<u>no need for the WG to conduct a face-to-face session at ICANN57</u> and that it might be more appropriate to have such a session at ICANN58 and/or ICANN59 – DONE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:2.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Staff to
<u>work with the TMCH Sub Team</u> to see if a revised timeline for delivery of their work output is needed (based on the discussion with the Analysis Group on 29 July) – IN PROCESS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Staff to develop a
<u>Survey Monkey questionnaire</u> – to be circulated to the IPC (and possibly the BC, per a suggestion from a co-chair following the Working Group meeting) – to seek information about whether there may have been a “substantial pattern or practice” of infringing
behavior at the second level by new gTLD registry operators – QUESTIONS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW BY CO-CHAIRS.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><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">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mary Wong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Senior Policy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Email: mary.wong@icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Telephone: +1-603-5744889<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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