Dear all, Per discussion on this morning on the call please find included the changes suggested by Susan Payne with respect to section of section 5.1.5 of the draft final paper (see her email 5 June 2017 to the list). On this morning’s call this was accepted by those attending, and it was agreed that if there are no comments on the suggested change by the end of this week (second reading), Friday 9 June 17.00 UTC, staff will prepare the final version of the Final Paper, including the suggested language. The Final Paper will then be submitted by the co-chairs to the chartering organizations (ccNSO and GNSO) and published. For those of you who were not able to attend today’s call: * All suggested changes were accepted (in second reading) * Editorial changes as suggested were accepted Thank you, on behalf of staff Bart Boswinkel 5.1.5 Discussion Members of the CWG noted that the status quo protects two-character ASCII codes as existing or potential future country code top-level domains. A change in this policy could have a significant impact on the domain name system and members discussed in detail the advantages and disadvantages of potentially altering existing policy guidelines. The competing views advanced by WG members during this debate can be summarized as follows (BB: the original sentence read: The outcome of this debate can be summarized as follows): Risks that changing the protective status of two-letter codes (in ASCII) might carry: ………