Dear all, For your information, the second call between George Kirikos (who filed the appeal under Section 3.7 of the GNSO Working Group Guidelines) and Working Group co-chairs Phil Corwin and Petter Rindforth took place on Thursday 18 January. Also on the call were Paul Keating and Paul Tattersfield (Working Group members who supported George’s appeal) and ICANN Ombudsman Herb Waye (in an observer capacity). The recording and transcript of the call can be found on the Working Group wiki space here: https://community.icann.org/x/iAS8B. On the call, agreement was reached to take the suggestion of requesting a facilitator’s assistance to the Working Group. Staff has completed our action item from the call, which was to advise the GNSO Council leadership and Working Group liaison to remove the planned agenda item concerning Phil’s and Petter’s December 2017 request from the Council’s 30 January meeting agenda. We confirm that the Council’s agenda has been amended accordingly. We believe Phil and Petter will follow up with everyone on the mailing list. Thanks and cheers Mary and Steve