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<div>Dear members,</div><div><br></div><div>ICANN has just published the
<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">FY22-26 Operating & Financial Plan and Draft FY22 Operating
Plan & Budget</span>
for public comment.</div><div><br></div><div>The Policy Committee is calling for volunteers to draft an NCSG comment to the draft plan and budget. Please let me know
off-list if you'd like to volunteer for the comment drafting. It'll be
nice to have more than one volunteers, including new-commers who can use
this as an opportunity to learn and be familiar with policy work.
</div><div><br></div><div>More information about the draft plan and budget can be found here : <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-opplan-budget-fy22-26-2020-12-17-en">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-opplan-budget-fy22-26-2020-12-17-en</a></div><div><br></div><div>A draft Google doc for the comment can be found here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DszoVkoE4-yHTutHpsTn1BPPZgLL3EfPgxrqmZiGq4/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DszoVkoE4-yHTutHpsTn1BPPZgLL3EfPgxrqmZiGq4/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can find previous NCSG comments here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/m/mobile.action#page/40928144" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/m/mobile.action#page/40928144</a></div><div><br></div><div>See below some best practices for the penholder:</div><ul><li>Provide the first draft on the mailing list in by day 21 of the comment period<br></li><li>Try to resolve the comments throughout the duration of comment period </li><li>Make sure that the commenter has seen how comment has been resolved (contact them directly if necessary)</li></ul>
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