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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Dear EPDP 2A Team,</span>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">We are currently in the final stages of publishing the Initial Report, and I wanted to provide you </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a
quick status update. </span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">1. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">We </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">currently </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">plan to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;">cancel</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> tomorrow’s
meeting. As noted </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">below</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, Leadership has endeavored to resolve all outstanding issues that were discussed during yesterday’s meeting.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> We
will, however, </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">wait </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to confirm</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> this cancellation until </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">COB</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> today
in </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the event </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">there is a last</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">-</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">minute
need to convene the group</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">2. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The deadline for final feedback on questions or </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the three </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">open
item</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">identified on the call </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was
COB yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">3. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Leadership and Support Staff are currently reviewing the proposed updates and are planning to send the final version of the Initial Report to the EPDP
Team and to the ICANN org publication team by the COB today. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">4. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As noted during yesterday’s call, where there is disagreement, Leadership made an executive decision in an effort to get the report to a final state.
In making a final decision, we endeavored to consider all viewpoints and proposed compromise text in recognition of outstanding disagreement</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">5. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Feedback received after the deadline was reviewed by Leadership and Support Staff. In instances where the feedback proposed a minor edit, we accepted
it; however, where feedback would result in a substantial change to existing text, we did not accept this. We welcome you to provide these types of comments during the public comment period.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">6. </span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Thank you to those who worked together to resolve issues over the list; these edits have been included in the updated Initial Report.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">7. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">We recognize that there are still some outstanding issues that EPDP members may be unhappy with, but we welcome further input during the public comment
period.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Thank you for your hard work to get us to this point.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Best regards,</span></p>
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Keith</p>
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