<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks Poncelet for volunteering. maybe we can ask Carlos for help here since he is in the CCT.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Rafik<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-08 19:47 GMT+09:00 Poncelet Ileleji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pileleji@ymca.gm" target="_blank">pileleji@ymca.gm</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks Rafik,<br><br></div>Will be interested in volunteering from this, but will need your support as I get going.<br><br></div>Thank you<br><br></div>Poncelet<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 8 March 2017 at 02:26, Rafik Dammak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>another public comment to cover and this time from a review team. </div><div>we need volunteers to take lead on drafting our comment, any idea?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik<br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-1178122364174324940m_-3499517270882642416gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="white" link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-1178122364174324940m_-3499517270882642416m_1650596552311226761WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">ICANN News Alert <<a href="mailto:no-reply@external.icann.org" target="_blank">no-reply@external.icann.org</a>><br><b>Reply-To: </b>"<a href="mailto:no-reply@external.icann.org" target="_blank">no-reply@external.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:no-reply@external.icann.org" target="_blank">no-reply@external.icann.org</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 4:56 PM<br><b>To: </b>Steve Chan <<a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org" target="_blank">steve.chan@icann.org</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[Ext] ICANN News Alert -- Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations For New gTLDs Available for Public Comment<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div style="border:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.icann.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=UAy6fqdE7uFkRCc7uzN4yui8bwTtqofadZHiQEIO1vw&m=-miDaa8l5emgAo2ZavLkQZV8X4Ij2mjfeMC0IvKyUM8&s=pzz55emK10q6EKJvv-VkJIOYkKzBCN3UZxc_1ynBnYg&e=" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img id="m_-1178122364174324940m_-3499517270882642416m_1650596552311226761_x0000_i1025" src="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/icann-primary-logo-94x94-en.png" alt="CANN" width="94" height="94" border="0"></span>[icann.org]</a> <u></u><u></u></p><h2>News Alert<u></u><u></u></h2><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D2-2D2017-2D03-2D07-2Den&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=UAy6fqdE7uFkRCc7uzN4yui8bwTtqofadZHiQEIO1vw&m=-miDaa8l5emgAo2ZavLkQZV8X4Ij2mjfeMC0IvKyUM8&s=w9VimnXWL4VS1h9f6a7WY2T9N7ZLiPJwZSlStNeJtpU&e=" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/ann<wbr>ouncement-2-2017-03-07-en[ican<wbr>n.org]</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:15.0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><hr width="100%" size="2" align="center"></div><h2 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations For New gTLDs Available for Public Comment<u></u><u></u></h2><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in">7 March 2017<u></u><u></u></p><p>LOS ANGELES – 7 March 2017 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the publication of the <strong>Draft</strong> Report from the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team with its recommendations for the New gTLD Program.<u></u><u></u></p><p><strong><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_cct-2Drt-2Ddraft-2Dreport-2Dexecutive-2Dsummary-2D07mar17-2Den.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=UAy6fqdE7uFkRCc7uzN4yui8bwTtqofadZHiQEIO1vw&m=-miDaa8l5emgAo2ZavLkQZV8X4Ij2mjfeMC0IvKyUM8&s=uNzRI4W_L6__Ww_1X4vi-AM9zO8Vtdp5M-wWrmXi2do&e=" target="_blank">Executive summary[icann.org]</a>. [PDF, 71 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ted by ICANN Bylaws and are crucial to the legitimacy and accountability of ICANN. Specific Reviews serve as ICANN's progress report to the world. The reviews demonstrate how ICANN delivers on its commitments and identify areas where ICANN can improve. Specific Reviews are conducted by members of the stakeholder community who look at past processes, actions and outcomes in order to make recommendations to improve future performance.<u></u><u></u></p><h3>About ICANN<u></u><u></u></h3><p><em>ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation and a community with participants from all over the world. ICANN and its community help keep the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It also promotes competition and develops policy for the top-level of the Internet's naming system and facilitates the use of other unique Internet identifiers. For more information please visit: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=UAy6fqdE7uFkRCc7uzN4yui8bwTtqofadZHiQEIO1vw&m=-miDaa8l5emgAo2ZavLkQZV8X4Ij2mjfeMC0IvKyUM8&s=qeW3TbhtjJSIJTd0bWFthBephlCl7EeGrdGr_LzoNsg&e=" target="_blank">www.icann.org[icann.org]</a>.</em><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><table class="m_-1178122364174324940m_-3499517270882642416m_1650596552311226761MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="100%"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#5e5e5e">This message was sent to <a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org" target="_blank">steve.chan@icann.org</a> from:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#5e5e5e">ICANN News Alert | <a href="mailto:no-reply@external.icann.org" target="_blank">no-reply@external.icann.org</a> | ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td style="width:2.0%;background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="2%"><p style="line-height:9.75pt"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#5e5e5e">Email Marketing by <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.icontact.com_a.pl_144186&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=UAy6fqdE7uFkRCc7uzN4yui8bwTtqofadZHiQEIO1vw&m=-miDaa8l5emgAo2ZavLkQZV8X4Ij2mjfeMC0IvKyUM8&s=BUymwfBKoA-0qBI9dwlsGHlkldvVmydiNm9-Qva34Uw&e=" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img id="m_-1178122364174324940m_-3499517270882642416m_1650596552311226761_x0000_i1027" src="http://app.icontact.com/images/icontact_tryFree.gif" alt="Contact - Try It Free!" width="117" height="38" border="0"></span>[icontact.com]</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__app.icontact.com_icp_mmail-2Dmprofile.pl-3Fr-3D13773709-26l-3D6333-26s-3D6C1A-26m-3D1001089-26c-3D165637&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=UAy6fqdE7uFkRCc7uzN4yui8bwTtqofadZHiQEIO1vw&m=-miDaa8l5emgAo2ZavLkQZV8X4Ij2mjfeMC0IvKyUM8&s=Z0EYBNm5Ca4GLLmbpt7lUCcXr4HwT63IH6R_A2iERrM&e=" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#115880;background:white;text-decoration:none">Manage Your Subscription [app.icontact.com]</span></b></a> <u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><img id="m_-1178122364174324940m_-3499517270882642416m_1650596552311226761_x0000_i1028" src="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=1001089&act=6C1A&r=13773709&c=165637" width="1" height="1" border="0"><u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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