<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;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><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;"><br><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sub Pro Recommendation 1 says ICANN<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>MUST</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>develop a Name Collision Risk Assessment methodology prior to the next round. “Let’s do what we did in 2012” does not describe a methodology and can’t really be effectively adopted by the Board, particularly not when standing GAC and ALAC advice is asking for more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Anne,</div><div><br></div><div>Time and time again you misrepresent what SubPro Rec 1 said. There is nothing there preventing the same framework used in 2012 to be used in future rounds if Org so sees fit. </div><div>The only thing that recommendation does not allow is to define the framework afterwards, which was what happened in 2012. </div><div><br></div><div>The 2012 framework checks all the boxes of the SubPro recommendations on the topic, so if you prefer new-magic-fancy-framework in lieu of the 2012 one is something you can do, but misrepresenting that the 2012 is a viable option is not. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>