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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear Stephanie, Dear Volker,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I hope you are doing well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Following up on Alan's update request below, can you please confirm asap whether you support all recommendations, or whether you plan on submitting a minority report.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks in advance for your confirmation,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Jean-Baptiste<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On 3/5/19, 6:58 PM, "RDS-WHOIS2-RT-Leadership_Staff on behalf of Alan Greenberg" <rds-whois2-rt-leadership_staff-bounces@icann.org on behalf of alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Update on where we are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> - Volker said he would try to do it last weekend but nothing in from
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> him and mail auto-respond says he is en route to Kobe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> - Stephanie submitted her comments on the report, and I think is
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> planning on submitting a minority statement. It is not clear if she
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> is supporting all of the recommendations or not. She has said she
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> wants to support the consensus but has also raised an issue with one
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> recommendation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> This is my last day before I leave.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Alan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> At 28/02/2019 10:55 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Hi Keith,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >I am sending this message as Chair of the RDS-WHOIS2 Review Team to
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >update you on the status of the Review.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >It had been our intention to issue our Final Report by the end of
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >2018, but for a number of reasons, that proved not possible.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Similarly, we were not able to make the fall-back date of 31 January
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >2019 but are trying to get it out prior to the leaving for the Kobe
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >meeting. We are in the last editing phase but there is still one
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >stumbling block - determining the final level of consensus on the
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >recommendations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >The recommendations were largely finalized during our last
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >face-to-face meeting on 10-12 December, subject to final editing. At
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >that time, all team members indicated they supported the
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >recommendations except for one member who objected to one
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >recommendation. That recommendation was reworded to that team
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >member's satisfaction, and no one registered any other dissent.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Nevertheless, the team decided that we would hold a final consensus
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >call to ensure that everyone was satisfied with the final intent and
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >wording of the recommendations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >At this point, of the nine active and voting RT members, seven have
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >formally given their final support for all recommendations. Despite
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >several many requests and reminders for a response, two of the team
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >members, Stephanie Perrin and Volker Greimann, appointed by the GNSO
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Council, have not responded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Although I am sure that both Stephanie and Volker had good reason to
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >have not been able to reply, we cannot further delay the issuance of
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >the report.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >I discussed the situation today with my leadership team (Susan
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Kawaguchi, appointed by the GNSO and Cathrin Bauer-Bulst, appointed
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >by the GAC). We believe that based on the general support we had for
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >the recommendations at the end of the last face-to-face meeting and
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >shortly thereafter, and the lack of any message indicating that
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >either Stephanie or Volker is NOT supporting any recommendation, we
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >plan to declare that we have full consensus on all recommendations,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >noting this history and the lack of a reply from the two members.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >As what I would consider a poorer alternative, we could just base
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >consensus on the seven members who have provided final input (and
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >effectively reducing the GNSO voting count from four to two).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >As the Chair of the group appointing these two Review Team Members,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >I would appreciate hearing your views on this and having your
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >support for proceeding with the first alternative.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >Warm regards, Alan<o:p></o:p></p>
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