Dear Lars, Thanks for your email. Our apologies that the response was not clearer and we appreciate your efforts to clarify our position. In fact we were not suggesting that a professional facilitator should be employed as Chair, but rather that subject matter experts from within the ICANN Community should be sought out to give input and direction to the ATRT3 Review and provide general leadership to the group. We were not explicitly referring to the role of Chair, but the need for participants capable of creating and working within targeted objectives and discussion rather than depending on the whole ICANN community to drive it forward. Please let us know if you need any further clarification. Kind regards, Zoe Bonython RrSG Secretariat On 8 Aug 2018, at 14:08, Lars Hoffmann <lars.hoffmann@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Graeme, I hope this finds you well. As we are summarizing the responses to the public comment on Short-Term Options to Adjust the Timeline for Specific Reviews, we noticed that the RrSG suggested with regard to ATRT3: “as a mechanism to ensure the ATRT3 Review proceeds in a timely (and therefore budget friendly) manner, the RrSG would further suggest that it be led by experts rather than the whole community.” We interpret this as a suggestion to have the team chaired by a professional facilitator; did we understand that correctly?

We have cc-ed the public comment archive to make sure your response will become part of the public comment record.

Many thanks and best wishes, Lars