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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Strategic Priority Subgroup,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please note a correction in the note below with respect to the BWG-RDS composition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Alice Jansen <alice.jansen@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday 8 August 2018 at 09:36<br>
<b>To: </b>"rds-whois2-stratpriority@icann.org" <rds-whois2-stratpriority@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>BWG-RDS related clarifications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Strategic Priority Subgroup,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please find below answers to the requests for clarifications that were formulated at the Brussels face-to-face meeting #3:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;background:white">provide a summary of the Board WG’s (BWG-RDS) current composition and remit</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Where can meeting notes or archives of BWG sessions be found?</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This question was asked by the Strategic Priority Subgroup in April, and responded to on 13 April 2018 (see attached). The original response is still accurate, but has been updated it with a few more recent
Correspondence letters that are highlighted in bold. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> In July 2015, the ICANN Board
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/minutes-2015-07-28-en#1.d">
formed</a> a Board Working Group on Registration Data Directory Services (BWG-RDS) to (i) liaise with the GNSO on the policy development process to examine the EWG’s recommended model and propose policies to support the creation of the next generation registration
directory services, and (ii) oversee the implementation of the remaining projects arising from the Action Plan adopted by the Board in response to the first WHOIS Review Team’s recommendations.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Board meets with the GNSO Council at ICANN meetings and, as relevant, discusses the GNSO PDP on registration data directory services. The latest
<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-forrest-et-al-23mar18-en.pdf">
communication</a> from the Board to the GNSO Council on this topic is as follows</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-forrest-et-al-23mar18-en.pdf">23 March 2018, ICANN Board to GNSO</a> regarding meeting on the topic of the Temporary Specification</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-forrest-25may18.pdf">25 May 2018, ICANN Board to GNSO</a>
<b>notifying them of Temporary Specification adoption</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/forrest-austin-dammak-to-chalaby-22jun18-en.pdf">22 June 2018, GNSO to ICANN Board</a>
<b>with questions arising from initiating the EPDP</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-forrest-et-al-24jun18-en.pdf">24 June 2018, ICANN Board to GNSO</a>
<b>responding to previous GNSO correspondence containing EPDP related questions</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/forrest-et-al-to-chalaby-12jul18-en.pdf">12 July 2018, GNSO to ICANN Board</a>
<b>requesting Board liaison appointments to EPDP</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/chalaby-to-forrest-18jul18-en.pdf">18 July 2018, ICANN Board to GNSO</a>
<b>regarding Board liaison appointments to EPDP</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Current BWG-RDS composition: Akinori Maemura, Avri Doria, Becky Burr, Chris Disspain, Kaveh Ranjbar, Matthew Shears, Sarah Deutsch</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regarding item (ii), the BWG-RDS received regular briefings from ICANN org regarding status of various implementation activities per the Board adopted Action Plan. The
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2015-07-28-en#1.d">
Board Working Group</a> has a Charter to provide a framework and guide for its work. With respect to minutes, most working groups tend not to have minutes, as they are not decisional bodies and are not empowered to make decisions, only to give guidance to the
Board on areas where the Board should take an action, or to help provide oversight to ICANN org.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alice </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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