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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=en-NO link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I totally agree. It is very important that we do not start discussing policy again. As has been said before, we have an AGB from 2012, and many of the recommendations state that there should be now change from that, or small changes. This should not take too long.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Kindly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Annebeth L.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>SubPro-IRT <subpro-irt-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Sam Lanfranco <samlanfranco@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 24 May 2023 at 14:55<br><b>To: </b>John Gbadamosi <john@mediarightsagenda.org>, Mike Rodenbaugh <mike@rodenbaugh.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"subpro-irt@icann.org" <subpro-irt@icann.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [SubPro-IRT] Work Plan is way too conservative and we need to do better......<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Following up on Mike Rodenbaugh’s comment that “<i>This IRT group is supposed to implement policy, not revisit and make policy”, </i><b>maybe</b> the group should assign someone (staff or group member) as a “<i>line referee</i>” to act as an interlocutor with the responsibility of reminding us when we seem to drift too far into the policy woods. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p>Sam L.<o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sam Lanfranco, Prof Emeritus, York University, Internet Ecologist & Farmer;<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Web23.io; AshPiedmont Farm, South Bay, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>P:613-476-0429 C:416-816-2852 E: <a href="mailto:samlanfranco@gmail.com">samlanfranco@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:Lanfran@yorku.ca">Lanfran@yorku.ca</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>_______________________________________________ SubPro-IRT mailing list SubPro-IRT@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/subpro-irt _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>