[Sending the email below on behalf of Petter Rindforth and Philip Corwin, WG co-chairs] Dear WG members, Please be informed that after consultation with ICANN staff we have decided to reschedule our Working Group meeting, originally planned for this Wednesday 22 July, to end-July or early August. We are informed that the ³small group² meeting between representatives of the IGO coalition and ICANN Board members was a positive one, and that an updated proposal is likely to be forwarded to the GAC and the GNSO for their review and action by September. This is in line with the GAC¹s Buenos Aires Communique and the objectives of the ³small group² process when it was formed to discuss the initial March 2014 proposal from the Board¹s New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC). The IGO coalition and Board are discussing issues that extend beyond but are related to our work. With the aim to facilitate further progress of the policy development process, and to take into account the context of our work, which includes the need to resolve the outstanding inconsistencies between the GNSO¹s initial policy recommendations on so-called ³preventative² protections and GAC advice received on the topic, we plan to hold a call very soon, along with Jonathan Robinson as GNSO Chair, Thomas Rickert as chair of the original GNSO PDP on IGO protections, and Mason as the GAC-GNSO liaison, with Chris Disspain (Board/NGPC member) and Thomas Schneider (GAC Chair) within the coming week. The aim of the call is for us to receive a first-hand update on the work of the ³small group² and discuss the likely progress within the GNSO, GAC and Board on the overall topic of IGO protections, as well as how this WG relates to the larger picture. As such, we believe that it would be most effective and productive if we were to have our next WG meeting following this call. We will provide more details and a tentative time for the next WG call as soon as possible. Best regards, Petter and Phil