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            <td>[liaison6c] GNSO Policy & Implementation Working
              Group Publishes Initial Recommendations Report for Public
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th>
            <td>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:03:05 +0000</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Glen de Saint Géry <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Glen@icann.org"><Glen@icann.org></a></td>
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            <td>liaison6c <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:liaison6c@gnso.icann.org"><liaison6c@gnso.icann.org></a></td>
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              href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-19-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-19-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <h1><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-US">GNSO Policy & Implementation Working Group
            Publishes Initial Recommendations Report for Public Comment<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Forum
                      Announcement:</span></strong><span
                    style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Comment
                    Period Opens on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Date:</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    January 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    Processes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                      (Brief):</span></strong><span
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                    lang="EN-US">Mainly as a result of discussions
                    stemming from implementation related issues of the
                    new generic Top-Level Doman (gTLD) program, there
                    has been an increased focus on which topics call for
                    policy and which call for implementation work,
                    including which processes should be used, at what
                    time and how issues which are the subject of
                    diverging opinions during the implementation process
                    should be acted upon. Following several discussions,
                    including the publication of a staff discussion
                    paper and a community session during the ICANN
                    meeting in Beijing in April 2013, the Generic Names
                    Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council decided in
                    July 2013 to form a Working Group (WG) which was
                    tasked to provide the GNSO Council with a set of
                    recommendations on a number of questions that
                    specifically relate to policy and implementation in
                    a GNSO context. The WG has now published its
                  </span><span
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href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/policy-implementation/pi-wg-initial-recommendations-19jan15-en.pdf"><span
                        lang="EN-US">Initial Recommendations Report</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
                    lang="EN-US"> [PDF, 1.46 MB] for community input
                    which can be provided either through input received
                    via this public comment forum or via the following
                    survey:
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                      Comment Box Link:</span></strong><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">Glen
            de Saint Géry
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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            Secretariat
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