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<div>All,</div>
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<div>First, I want to commend my fellow members of the Finance Committee. Your response times are an example to every other group in the NCSG. We're able to get stuff done because you take your commitments seriously. I'm honoured to be Chair of this group.</div>
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<div>I'll declare the following as having been decided:</div>
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<div>1. Observers shall have posting privileges on the FC list and shall be able to participate in calls and meetings without qualification, save for consensus calls per the NCSG Charter;</div>
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<div>2. I will attempt to gauge the interest amongst GNSO colleagues in using our meeting slot to discuss ways we can work more closely together while participating in the ICANN budget process. I'll report back to this list no later than this coming Monday. If the interest is not there we will cancel the meeting.</div>
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<div>I'd also like to echo and agree with Sam's comment:</div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hopefully we will have made substantial progress so that by ICANN 60 we can deal with substantive issues and opportunities.</span></div>
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<div>We're the first very active FC in NCSG history. Slowly we're building something - step by step.</div>
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<div>Thanks again everybody.</div>
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<div>Kind Regards,</div>
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<div>Ed Morris </div>
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