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Submitted by:Keith Drazek

Seconded by:  John McElwaine 

WHEREAS:

1. On 9 July 2018, the Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group on International Governmental Organizations (IGO) and International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO) Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms submitted its Final Report to the GNSO Council. The Final Report contains five policy recommendations on which the Working Group reached consensus.
2. On 19 July 2018, the GNSO Council acknowledged receipt of the PDP Final Report, noted that, "[i]n view of the need to consider the topic of curative rights protections for IGOs in the broader context of appropriate overall scope of protection for all IGO identifiers (including IGO acronyms), the GNSO Council intends to review this Final Report … with a view toward developing a possible path forward that will also facilitate the resolution of the outstanding inconsistencies between GAC advice and prior GNSO policy recommendations on the overall scope of IGO protections";
3. Between July 2018 and March 2019, the GNSO Council discussed the PDP Final Report at various meetings and considered the procedural options available to it under the GNSO's Operating Rules and ICANN Bylaws
4. On 18 April 2019, the GNSO Council resolved to approve, and recommend that the ICANN Board adopt, Recommendations 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the PDP Final Report.
5. The GNSO Council elected not to approve Recommendation 5 of the PDP Final Report and directed the Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs (RPM) PDP to consider, as part of its Phase 2 work, whether an appropriate policy solution can be developed that is generally consistent with Recommendations 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the PDP Final Report and:

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