Dear Councilors, During the informal Council meeting today, Councilors agreed to update the resolved clauses to the Initiation of a PDP on Latin Script Diacritics. The motions wiki<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+2024-11-13> has been updated and read as follows: (updated resolved - agreed upon by Greg DiBiase and Mark Datysgeld) Motion - Initiation of a Policy Development Process for Latin Script Diacritics Submitted by: Greg DiBiase Seconded by: Mark Datysgeld Whereas, 1. On 16 May 2024, the GNSO Council passed amotion<https://gnso.icann.org/en/council/resolutions/2020-current#202405>, requesting ICANN’s Policy Support Staff to draft a Preliminary Issue Report on Latin Script Diacritics; 2. ICANN Staff published the Preliminary Issue Report<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2024/draft/preliminary-iss...> on a Policy Development Process for Latin Script Diacritics for public comment on 18 July 2024, with the public comment forum closing on 27 August 2024, receiving 41 submissions; 3. ICANN staff have reviewed the forty-one (41)public comments<https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/preliminary-issue-report-...> received and published a Public Comment Summary Report<https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/generic-names-supporting-organization-cou...> on 10 September 2024; 4. The Final Issue Report<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2024/draft/final-issue-rep...> on a Policy Development Process for Latin Script Diacritics was delivered to the GNSO Council on 12 September 2024; 5. ICANN Staff presented<https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2024/presentation/final-is...> the Final Issue Report and discussed the draft Charter with Council at the 17 October 2024 GNSO Council meeting; and, 6. As indicated in the Final Issue Report, the General Counsel of ICANN has indicated that the topics recommended for review are properly within the scope of the ICANN policy process and the GNSO. RESOLVED: 1. The GNSO Council hereby initiates a PDP for Latin Script Diacritics which will focus on the circumstance when an ASCII gTLD and the Latin script diacritic version of the gTLD are not variants of each other AND may be found to be visually similar to each other; and, 2. The GNSO Council requests that the PDP Working Group be convened as soon as possible after the adoption of the PDP Working Group Charter in order to fulfill the requirements of this PDP. 3. The completion of this PDP is not a dependency for the launch of the application process for new gTLDs. John R. Emery, Ph.D. Policy Development Support Senior Specialist Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org>