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<div style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">to help ICANN community leaders track requests and updates.</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(56,123,55);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">NEW: </span><span style="color:rgb(26,25,26);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Finance Briefings at ICANN66</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">REGISTER BY FRIDAY: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">ICANN66 Prep Week Schedule</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">DEADLINE THIS WEEK: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Participate in Newcomers Day at ICANN66</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">DEADLINE IN ONE WEEK:</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(191,63,47);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Preparations for ICANN66 Constituency Day</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(207,143,18);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">REMINDER: </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Support the ICANN Engagement Booth at ICANN66</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(207,143,18);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">SAVE THE DATE: </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">ICANN66 Community Leadership Reception</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(56,123,55);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">NEW: </span><span style="color:rgb(26,25,26);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">CSC Findings on PTI Performance for August 2019</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(56,123,55);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">NEW:</span><span style="color:rgb(26,25,26);font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> 2020 Leadership Program</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(207,143,18);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">REMINDER: </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Invitation to Provide Feedback on the ICANN Board’s Proposed Public Interest Framework</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(207,143,18);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">REMINDER:</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">ICANN Preparations for IGF 2019: Information for the Community and Requests for Input</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Public Comment</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">CLOSING IN ONE WEEK:</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Next Steps to Improve the Effectiveness of ICANN's Multistakeholder Model</span>
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<li style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) Accepted Recommendations – Plan for Implementation and Next Steps</span></li>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Executive: </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Xavier Calvez, Chief Financial Officer</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">FOR: </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">All Community Leaders</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The ICANN org Finance team would like to meet with the Supporting Organizations, Advisory Committees, Stakeholder Groups, Constituencies, and Regional At-Large Regional Organization groups at ICANN66 to present a short update on planning- and finance-related topics, including:</span></div>
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<li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">FY21 Operating Plan</span></li>
<li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">FY19 Financials/FY20 Updates</span></li>
<li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Accountability and Transparency reporting – specific reports published by the ICANN org Finance team.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please let us know by </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Monday, 28 October 2019</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">, if there are time slots that we can present. We appreciate your assistance. </span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Becky Nash, </span><a href="mailto:becky.nash@icann.org" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(72,161,153);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">becky.nash@icann.org</a>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Shani Quidwai, </span><a href="mailto:shani.quidwai@icann.org" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(72,161,153);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shani.quidwai@icann.org</a>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">10:00-12:20 (broken up into ten minute slots; e.g. 10:00-10:10, 10:10-10:20, etc.)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">We would like to invite your community group to designate a representative to attend the relevant session. Your remarks should be focused toward the Newcomers and will be followed by a brief question and answer session. Together, this should not exceed 10 minutes. We will provide standard slides but you are welcome to send us any slides as well. We will share the deck once it is finalized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">By </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Friday, 11 October 2019</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">, please email</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(26,25,26);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(72,161,153);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold"><a href="mailto:deborah.escalera@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">deborah.escalera@icann.org</a></span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(72,161,153);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">with your designated representative(s). </span>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Constituency and Stakeholder Group Chairs,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please reply no later than Monday, 14 October 2019</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Board and I are very much looking forward to engaging with you during our 21st AGM that will take place in Montréal between 2-7 November 2019.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">We wish to keep working on improving our interaction with you and, in particular, we want to address some of the requests and feedback we have received and introduce some more flexibility in the format of our valuable face-to-face meetings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Starting in Montréal, instead of sending up to three questions to the Board, we would like to offer you the </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline">alternative</span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"> option of choosing a single topic and having an open discussion with the Board on that topic.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">As for time allocation, we propose to allocate half of our time together to answer your questions or discuss your single topic and the other half to address the Board’s topic.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">In preparation for our meetings, the Board chose the following topic to have an open discussion with you:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">“Community, Board and ICANN org readiness to implement the following three critical plans that will shape ICANN’s future: (1) Strategic Plan FY 21-25, (2) Operating & Financial Plan FY 21-25, and (3) Work Plan to improve the effectiveness of ICANN’s multistakeholder model.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">We look forward to hearing your thoughts on our suggestions and on how to improve our interaction further.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">We thank you in advance for your time on this matter and we look forward to welcoming you in Canada!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">I am also very pleased to inform you that:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">As our previous chair, Byron Holland, has stepped down from the CSC per 1 October 2019, I would like to thank him for his outstanding leadership during the creation of the CSC and through its first years. I would also like to thank Elaine Pruis for her valuable time on the CSC, as she too now steps down. In the current situation, with two vacant member seats, I have humbly accepted the trust from the CSC to act as interim chair for the group up and until the full membership of the CSC (members and liaisons) have been approved by the ccNSO and GNSO Councils and the new membership has appointed a new chair and vice chair.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(26,25,26);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">From Wednesday, 2 October to Friday, 15 November 2019, ICANN has issued a call for nominations for the 2020 Leadership Program, scheduled for 5–6 March in Cancún, Mexico, just prior to ICANN67.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">From 18 September – 18 October 2019, a community consultation is taking place on the global public interest framework proposed by the ICANN Board. In reviewing the proposal, the ICANN Board is asking the ICANN community to consider the following questions for input to the ICANN Board:</span></div>
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<li style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">What are your thoughts on the proposed approach for decisions in the ICANN ecosystem to be accompanied by a consideration of their impact on the global public interest (as well as an explanation regarding what is meant by the GPI in the specific case)?</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The global public interest is central to many of ICANN’s primary governance documents, and the ICANN Board hopes to play a role in facilitating a bottom-up, community-driven process to develop a framework as a toolkit for the ICANN community to consider the global public interest. These considerations would not change the process by which decisions are made but could instead serve as tools for the community to reinforce the commitment to the public interest and to demonstrate how specific recommendations, advice, and public comments are in the global public interest. This includes the ICANN community guiding the ICANN Board about the public interest determination the latter must make in its decisions.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The 14th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be hosted by the Government of Germany in Berlin from 25 to 29 November 2019. ICANN org will have a booth, hold sessions, and co-host a reception with other Internet technical organizations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">ICANN booth </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">– The booth will be a resource for the ICANN community. Please contact us (see below) if you or any of your members would like to volunteer at the booth, or use the booth as a place for small meet-ups, etc. Once we have a better idea, we will create a schedule reflecting this.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">As ICANN evolves, the Public Comment process will adapt as well. The Public Comment team has been working with the Information Transparency Initiative team to develop an improved Public Comment feature based on input from the ICANN community. We look forward to testing it in </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001e2bzC2yluvJVWhOiME8XRd8pKQDtEr7wg4FLUcdO0LoJGhordk_XporNjNm12mA31Z4Ihh7TJ3stmcjuIo5Rcz6kQtg-s34SNpSlYR7t_bbQcZqZtRdEQs6EDtNnGqturPknmMSVG3KbX35bBsQz6xqPrSibyqGkfvAIEUUVYyW3KWr19FrasQrx_27Lmpz7lJxZx0K0CKeyY4XYb6ve8C9StVgdbpaViZY5OMQGKu4IFZieRfbgJHyjLtYaoSGa&c=qU_4ymCfdj5hqwSv4rCMEiePySBPd-crBFFPm703iNm_6EYCWJ4sRw==&ch=epPAi0YDB_8rdfmzJ_x8wFySh2mE6tsvqz-PrGlMaBYWRgbIFtpDpQ==" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(72,161,153);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">early 2020</a><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">. </span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">As always, the Public Comment team is available to answer questions at </span><a href="mailto:public-comment@icann.org" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(72,161,153);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">public-comment@icann.org</a><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-ser</div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>