<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <br /><div>All,</div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">I'm afraid the timing for this letter was very important a week ago. As I watched the letter sit, I feared we were "fiddling while Rome was burning." (to use a very old phrase).</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><br /></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Our letter is no longer timely. Huge events have taken place in the last week -- led by those who submitted their letters to the Board by 4/15. To not reference those letters and these events is to diminish them -- and we have no NCSG agreement to do that.</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><br /></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Timing is everything.</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Best, Kathy</font></div><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Rafik Dammak" <rafik.dammak@gmail.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"ncsg-pc" <ncsg-pc@lists.ncsg.is><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:35:37 +0900<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[NCSG-PC] [Urgent] NCSG statement PIR Transaction and Proposed Public Interest Commitments Update<br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br /></div><div class="gmail_quote">here the latest version fo NCSG statement regarding .org sale and proposed PICs <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17smIcztTiGNcdOefZuUeM3ytY2HGYRaBu3Npt5FW4uA/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/17smIcztTiGNcdOefZuUeM3ytY2HGYRaBu3Npt5FW4uA/edit</a></div><div class="gmail_quote">We need to act now as the board is going to make decision. Last edit the statement was made and the draft was in NCSG list for a while. If there is no objection within the next 24 hours, I will send the letter to ICANN board and CEO.</div><div class="gmail_quote">I understand the current situation with covid-19 and confinement but we also still to respond.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br /></div><div class="gmail_quote">Best,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br /></div><div class="gmail_quote">Rafik</div></div>
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