<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">+1<div>Best regards,</div><div>Osvaldo<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 28 Sep 2023, at 18:54, Paul McGrady via council <council@gnso.icann.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Support. Thanks John.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Best,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Paul<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>council <<a href="mailto:council-bounces@gnso.icann.org" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">council-bounces@gnso.icann.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>John McElwaine via council<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 28, 2023 4:44 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>GNSO Council <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[council] CCWG-AP Letter to Org<o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Councilors,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">As you will recall from my agenda item at September’s Council Meeting, on 17 July 2023, Xavier Calvez sent a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/2023-August/027220.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">written update</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on the progress of ICANN org’s implementation of the Cross Community Working Group’s - Auction Proceeds (CCWG-AP) Final Report. Specifically, the letter let us know of the Board’s intention to direct ICANN org to change the implementation path of the CCWG-AP’s Recommendation 7, which was focused on limiting the use of ICANN’s accountability mechanisms to challenge individual application decisions made by the independent assessment panel. The CCWG-AP recommended that this limitation should be achieved through changing the ICANN Bylaws on the Reconsideration Request and Independent Review Processes to specify a carve out. Instead of touching ICANN’s core accountability mechanisms in the Bylaws, the ICANN Board intends to now direct ICANN org to achieve this recommendation through the applicant terms and conditions that grant applicants will agree to when submitting their grant application. Because the Board is looking to direct ICANN org to implement the CCWG-AP’s recommendation to limit access to ICANN’s accountability mechanisms in a different manner than the CCWG-AP contemplated, the Board agreed it was important to give advance notice to those CCWG representatives who formed Recommendation 7 and at the same time wanted to provide transparency to the chartering organizations approved the CCWG-AP Final Report and its recommendations.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The specific ask was to let ICANN Org know if the GNSO Council was comfortable in having ICANN Org engage with the former CCWG-AP members in this conversation or whether it should be held differently. There was a good discussion on this topic and on the Board’s decision to change implementation of Recommendation 7, which we have summarized in the attached letter.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you have any comments or revisions, please provide them in a reply to this email. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">John<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="370" style="width: 277.5pt;"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" colspan="2" style="width: 370px; padding: 0in 0in 14.25pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(103, 109, 114); letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"><img border="0" width="261" height="30" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.nelsonmullins.com/img/ecard-logo.png" style="width: 2.7166in; height: 0.3166in;"></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(103, 109, 114); letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr><td width="5" style="width: 3.75pt; padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(103, 109, 114); letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td><td width="365" style="width: 273.75pt; padding: 0in;"><div style="border-width: 1.5pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(209, 210, 212) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 12pt 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(103, 109, 114); letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">JOHN C. 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