Per the request of the co-chairs we are publishing the final draft version of Annex 9 for comments by the CCWG. This version is the version produced by legal counsel as distributed last week with the added edit of removing the term Participants as per the Board request. You will find attached 2 documents, one with track changes (staff and legal) and the other a clean version. The comment period for the CCWG will run from 02:00 UTC Tuesday 9 February and will close at 02:00 UTC Thursday11 February - providing the 48 hour comment period. Please make your comments via email to the full CCWG list and use the following subject line to identify your email as being a comment on this: *CCWG - Recommendation 9 - Final draft for CCWG comments* or simply reply to this email. Comments will be compiled in semi-real time by staff . Thank You. Bernard Turcotte ICANN Staff Support for CCWG