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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> GNSO-GGP-WG <gnso-ggp-wg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@icann.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 11, 2023 10:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org <gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GNSO-GGP-WG] FINAL REPORT SUBMITTED TO COUNCIL: GGP Guidance Recommendation Final Report</span>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Working Group members,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As noted below, Paul McGrady, as GNSO Council Liaison to the GGP, has submitted the Final Report with a motion to the GNSO Council today Monday, 11 December, the document and motion
deadline for consideration by the GNSO Council at its meeting on Thursday, 21 December. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thank you very much to Mike, Paul, and the GGP Working Group members for completing your part of this important work – congratulations! We will let you know of the outcome of the Council’s
consideration of the Final Report.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kind regards,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Steve & Julie</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>From:
</b>GNSO-GGP-WG <gnso-ggp-wg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, December 8, 2023 at 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org" <gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[GNSO-GGP-WG] RESULTS-CONSENSUS CALL: GGP Guidance Recommendation Final Report</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Working Group members,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As noted below, the Consensus Call was closed as of COB, Thursday, 07 December. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Results:</b> As no objections were received,
<b>all nine (9) Guidance Recommendations are considered to be agreed by the Working Group with
<u>Full Consensus</u></b>, as in Annex C in the attached final version of the document. Please also note that no edits were received by Working Group members during the review period.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The final step in the process is for Paul McGrady, as GNSO Council Liaison to the GGP, to submit the Final Report with a motion to the GNSO Council by Monday, 11 December, the document
and motion deadline for consideration by the GNSO Council at its meeting on Thursday, 21 December.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kind regards,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Steve & Julie</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>From:
</b>GNSO-GGP-WG <gnso-ggp-wg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 4:49 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org" <gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[GNSO-GGP-WG] REMINDER FINAL-FOR REVIEW & CONSENSUS CALL: GGP Guidance Recommendations Final Report</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Working Group members,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reminder that per the request below, by
<span style="background-color: yellow;">COB TODAY</span> please indicate your group’s position on the
<span style="background-color: yellow;">CONSENSUS DESIGNATIONS</span> in ANNEX C of the attached Final Report. If we do not hear from you we will assume your group is in agreement with the designations.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kind regards,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Julie</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>From:
</b>GNSO-GGP-WG <gnso-ggp-wg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 10:42 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org" <gnso-ggp-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[GNSO-GGP-WG] FINAL-FOR REVIEW & CONSENSUS CALL: GGP Guidance Recommendations Final Report</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Dear Working Group members,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b><i>Thank you again for all your work on this very important effort.</i></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">P</span>er
<span style="color: black;">the </span>discussion on yesterday’s call, Monday, 04 December 2023, the working group agreed to one minor change in the attached Final Draft of the Final Report: to include in Guidance Recommendation 1 to clarify the meaning of
“under-served” in the Implementation Guidance, page 9, to include a footnote from the Initial Report deliberations referencing the GAC definition as follows: “The working group agreed to cite from the Initial Report the GAC's definition of under-served:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gac.icann.org/working-group/gac-working-group-on-underserved-regions-usrwg__;!!PtGJab4!5333mm3P75BiFELEOxEZwalPHRJ_0BTwSv0a0CuQjQJmDNYoTmEL10dkfYbtYUvRQS614xrJaYvxinKzfqOVcHpb5Vk1WWPs7w$" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" id="OWAf1b736f0-54dc-f2d0-1716-b4fb72654c53" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
https://gac.icann.org/working-group/gac-working-group-on-underserved-regions-usrwg [gac.icann.org]</a>, specifically: “An under-served region is defined as one that: Does not have a well developed DNS and/or associated industry or economy…”” The working group
also agreed to correct a couple of typographical errors. Other than these very minor changes the working group agreed with the attached text as written.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>REPORT REVIEW: Working Group members are requested to review, with their respective groups, Section 3 of the Final Report and provide suggested minor edits, if any, in redline/review
mode not later than <u>COB Thursday, 07 December</u>.</b> Note that minor edits are welcome for the other sections of the report, although those sections are mostly unchanged from the Initial Report.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>CONSENSUS CALL:
</b><span style="color: black;"><b>Working Group members are requested to review, with their respective groups, the Consensus Designations for each Guidance Recommendation listed in Annex C and to indicate on the Working Group list
<u>as soon as possible but not later than COB Thursday, 07 December</u> if </b></span><b>their</b><span style="color: black;"><b> group</b></span><b>s</b><span style="color: black;"><b> agree with the Consensus Designations, or if there are objections.</b>
Per the GNSO Guidance Process Manual: “Each recommendation in the Final Report should be accompanied by the appropriate consensus level designation (see section 3.6 – Standard Methodology for Making Decisions in the
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gnso.icann.org/en/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-15mar23-en.pdf__;!!PtGJab4!8vaHrOCw8ftmRr2uI3_KyK_hY3zkpGtroJTW1PkXxeQl3FxtpO34kZNWkg0xWE0F9zI7OPRvb1EljqvWmqVb7JdJI66zHT5XUQ$" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" id="OWAd69c5a30-d6a2-9155-fd46-ed6694a82e79" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
GNSO Working Group Guidelines [gnso.icann.org]</a>).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Thank you very much</span> again<span style="color: black;"> for your consideration. Following the completion of this process the Final Report will be submitted
to the GNSO Council with a draft motion on Monday, 11 December – the document and motion deadline.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kind regards<span style="color: black;">,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Julie and Steve</span></p>
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