Hi Kurt, Rafik and Marika, Please forward this email to the EPDP WG list. Regards, Keith ————————————— Dear EPDP WG members, As you approach your in-person meeting in Toronto next week, I wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge the substantial work and sacrifice you all have made over the last several months, and to encourage your continued constructive engagement in working towards a consensus policy recommendation. As the manager of the GNSO policy development process and this Expedited PDP, the GNSO Council is keenly aware of the intensity and complexity of your work and the unique and challenging circumstances imposed by the Temporary Specification’s May 2019 expiration. Your ongoing work is unprecedented in ICANN and GNSO policy-making history, and your dedication and continued contributions are both apparent and very much appreciated. In acknowledging the deadline imposed by the Temp Spec and the necessary timelines in your EPDP project plan, I recognize the importance of your upcoming face-to-face meeting. In observing the work of the EPDP, I’ve noted how productive the in-person engagements have been, and I am confident your Toronto meeting will be no different. As you all know, this session comes at a critical time for your work and the timely delivery of a consensus policy recommendation to the GNSO Council and ultimately to the ICANN Board for approval. In the spirit of our multi-stakeholder, bottom-up, consensus-based policy-making process, I encourage each of you to take this opportunity to continue working together collaboratively and collegially in reaching a timely consensus recommendation. I am confident your work product will be an example of the ICANN community’s ability and capacity to deliver under challenging circumstances, and proof of the value of our multi-stakeholder model. Thank you all very much for your work and dedication to this critical process. With sincere regards, Keith Drazek GNSO Chair