Thanks Hadia,

From my perspective, these seem to be helpful clarifications.

I recall that I committed to proof-reading the final proposed version and am still available to do that. Jonathan From: Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi [mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:09 AM To: Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org>; ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org Subject: Re: [Ccwg-auctionproceeds] Proposed Agenda - new gTLD Auction Proceeds CCWG meeting on 16 November at 14.00 UTC Dear All, I have one comment with regard to the preamble, in the first paragraph we mention "The purpose of this preamble is to offer overarching guidance for the application and selection of projects to which auction …" I believe that the scope of this group is to offer guidance only for the allocation of funds and thus the selection of projects and not for the application nor the applicants, the group which is to come after us, whatever form it will have, will be concerned with addressing the applications and applicants as for now this is out of our scope therefore I suggest keeping the guidance only for the selection of projects so it will read "The purpose of this preamble is to offer overarching guidance for the selection of projects to which auction …" And the same thing will apply to the last paragraph, this group should not be putting guidelines for applications, the group that is to come later will be putting the guidelines for the applications and projects taking into consideration this preamble, we are only advising on the allocation of funds. Moreover applications can't be aligned with ICANN's mission nor Support ICANN's community activities, etc… what is supposed to abide by this are the projects and not the applications nor the applicants. Therefore I suggest changing the last paragraph from Therefore, the CCWG considers the following to be important guidelines for applications seeking auction proceeds funding To Therefore, the CCWG considers the following to be important guidelines for the allocation of auction funds, where projects are strongly recommended to - Be aligned with ICANN's mission and core principles - Support ICANN's community activities and consensus-building processes - Create social and economic values for an “open and interoperable Internet” that will create benefits for the Internet community. Support an Internet that is stable Thanks Kind Regards Hadia From: Ccwg-auctionproceeds [mailto:ccwg-auctionproceeds-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Marika Konings Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 10:39 PM To: ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org <mailto:ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org> Subject: Re: [Ccwg-auctionproceeds] Proposed Agenda - new gTLD Auction Proceeds CCWG meeting on 16 November at 14.00 UTC Dear All, In relation to agenda item 3b, please find attached the latest, and hopefully final, version of the Open and Interoperable Internet description. Please review this version ahead of the meeting and indicate if there are any red flag items in the document (i.e. any language that you just cannot support). The CCWG chairs would like to be able to finalize this description for now, recognizing that further work may be needed based on input that may be received from others at a later stage in the process. Best regards, Marika From: Ccwg-auctionproceeds <ccwg-auctionproceeds-bounces@icann.org <mailto:ccwg-auctionproceeds-bounces@icann.org> > on behalf of Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org <mailto:marika.konings@icann.org> > Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 11:09 To: "ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org <mailto:ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org> " <ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org <mailto:ccwg-auctionproceeds@icann.org> > Subject: [Ccwg-auctionproceeds] Proposed Agenda - new gTLD Auction Proceeds CCWG meeting on 16 November at 14.00 UTC Dear All, Please find below the proposed agenda for the next new gTLD Auction Proceeds CCWG meeting which has been scheduled for Thursday 16 November at 14.00 UTC. Please make sure to review the documents attached, especially the document for item 4. You are encouraged to review the questions identified in this document for accuracy (do these accurately reflect the comments that were provided during the F2F meeting) as well as whether there are any questions missing. Thanks, Marika Proposed Agenda – new gTLD Auction Proceeds CCWG meeting on Thursday 16 November at 14.00 UTC 1. Roll Call 2. Welcome / DOI – SOI Updates 3. Completing stage 2: a. Review of updated examples document (see attached) b. Open and Interoperable Internet description (DT expected to circulate latest version prior to meeting) c. Discuss next steps 4. Stage 3 – review and refine questions for experts (see document attached) 5. Review and discuss updated work plan (see attached) 6. 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