This message is to notify you of the closing of the Consensus Call process on the RDRS SC Findings Report.

• Please find attached the updated Consensus Designation based on the comments received by SC members during the Consensus Call. We have received one objection to RDRS SC recommendation #1 and leadership has updated the Consensus Designation for that recommendation only. The comments received will be uploaded to the RDRS Wiki and linked in the RDRS Findings Report accordingly with the Consensus Designations for all recommendations.
• If I may add a qualifier of my own: Between the two Consensus Calls the SC ran, in August and in November, I believe that Full Consensus was reached on recommendations 2, 3, 4 and 6. Consensus only was reached on recommendations 1 and 5. The divergence on both of these recommendations is not so much on the fact that further policy should or shouldn't be considered (rec 5) or that RDRS should or shouldn’t be turned off (rec 1), but on the fact that RDRS as is, is not a viable product, that the underlying policy will need to address key issues which themselves remain under debate. In my view these fundamental questions are legitimate and should be addressed as the SC agreed by a successor workgroup to be chartered by the GNSO Council after discussions with the Board. I feel that within the remit of our charter and on the letter of the recommendations we produced, we are very close to Full Consensus but accept the Consensus designation for the work overall.

Please find the final version of the Findings Report attached.

Thank you again for all of your hard work!

Kindly,

Sebastien Ducos