Dear Councillors, ICANN is seeking input from the community about "Šhow the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings". This follows the GAC Communique issued at the end of the Beijing meeting giving varying advice to Board about a number of new gTLD applications. I am checking to see if the council thinks the ccNSO should make any statement/comment about this matter. If so, I will leave it to the Council Chair & Secretariat to give a direction about this should be approached. For more info, please go to http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/gac-safeguard-advice-23apr13-en. htm. Regards, Vika