Thanks Thomas. Looking forward to seeing the letter. Best, Paul From: Thomas Rickert [mailto:thomas@rickert.net] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 11:13 AM To: Paul McGrady (Policy) Cc: James M. Bladel; Marika Konings; GNSO Council List Subject: Re: [council] Voting Statements Hello Paul, thanks for your note. I will send the CCWG letter, which was sent to the Board directly to Larry Strickling drawing his attention to the statements made by the Chartering Organizations and add that there is an expactation that these statements will be passed on to Congress with the report. Kind regards, Thomas --- rickert.net eco.de Am 18.03.2016 um 17:03 schrieb Paul McGrady (Policy) <policy@paulmcgrady.com>: Thanks Thomas. This is a bit less robust than advertised. Can you please do more for us to ensure that what was sent to NTIA (which presumably reaches Congress) actually contained these statements? I don't think it is reasonable to assume that NTIA users of the CCWG will automatically attach our voting statements to whatever they communicate to Congress and others in Washington. If we can't get certainty on that, then I may need to go back to my constituency and get permission to take a more direct route. Thanks in advance for your anticipated follow through on the promise that our statements would be included in the package sent to the NTIA. Regards, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Rickert [mailto:thomas@rickert.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 11:51 AM To: James M. Bladel; Marika Konings; Paul McGrady; GNSO Council List (council@gnso.icann.org) Subject: Re: [council] Voting Statements Hi James, I can confirm that we have referenced to all papers form the Chartering Organizations and the GNSO repsonse includes the IPC statement, amongst others. While I have not seen (but it may just be me) reference to the Chartering Organizations' letters in the Board submission to NTIA, I should mention that NTIA representatives are on the CCWG list and have therefore taken note of the Chartering Orgs statements. I hope this helps. Thomas Am 14.03.2016 um 20:57 schrieb James M. Bladel: Thanks, Marika. If I¹m understanding your message, we sent all materials to CCWG-ACCT, and these were references in their submission to the Board...but we have no confirmation that the Board included these materials in their submission to NTIA. Is this correct? If so, then perhaps we could raise this question with Thomas. And I presume there is nothing to prevent us from submitting these directly to the folks at NTIA. Thank you, J. On 3/14/16, 11:00 , "owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of Marika Konings" <owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of marika.konings@icann.org> wrote: Paul, for your information, please find attached the transmittal message from the CCWG-Accountability to the ICANN Board, which includes a link to the message that James sent which included the transmittal letter and attachments with statements as well as voting record. The transmittal message from the ICANN Board to NTIA can be found here http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-Mar ch/01 1 720.html. As far as I can tell, the ICANN Board transmittal does not seem to include the details of the consideration by the different chartering organisations, but I may have missed it as there are a number of attachments that have been provided. Best regards, Marika On 14/03/16 09:00, "owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of Paul McGrady" <owner-council@gnso.icann.org on behalf of policy@paulmcgrady.com> wrote: James, Can you confirm that, as promised, the CCWG-ACCT passed along the various voting statements to the Board and the Board, in turn, has passed them along to the NTIA? These are an important part of the record and we were assured they would end up in the hands of the NTIA. Hopefully, that happened as advertised. Thanks for checking and getting back to the List with news. Best, Paul Sent from my iPhone --