Dear all,

After the thorough and fruitful discussions held throughout the various plenary calls, we have finalized Recommendation 6 yesterday. However the Board also proposed a significant compromise which seems to have gathered acceptance from many in our CCWG community involved in the development of Recommendation 6.

This seems to be the best approach to achieve a compromise as it seems that it is something most can live with and few really like.

As such the co-chairs will recommend this compromise by the Board be accepted by the CCWG as its new consensus position on Recommendation 6 at the next meeting of the CCWG on Tuesday February 9 12:00UTC.

To facilitate your consideration of this prior to that meeting we are attaching two documents to this email:

• The first is a list of Recommendation 6 from the Third Draft, the current language accepted for the supplemental report and the Board compromise language. It also includes a red line of the supplemental language vs the Board compromise. Finally it analyses the changes of the supplemental language vs the Board compromise.
• The second is a draft of Recommendation 6, as finalized for the supplemental report, with a red line of the changes needed to include the Board compromise.

Thanking you in advance for your understanding and spirit of compromise we look forward to any comments you might have on the proposed way forward.

Best regards,


León, Thomas and Mathieu