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The GNSO Council understands that the IGO Work Track has made substantial progress in its deliberations and that it is important to maintain the group’s momentum, so as to allow the community to attempt to reach consensus on a long-standing issue. As Consensus Policy recommendations can only be made by a PDP or EPDP, the Council is electing to take the procedural step of initiating an EPDP to allow the efforts of the IGO Work Track to continue. The Council believes that initiating the EPDP is merely a procedural action to allow an existing effort to continue in an uninterrupted manner, to the extent possible; the Council has stressed that the EPDP charter must substantively mirror the Addendum governing the IGO Work Track, in further recognition of the procedural nature of this action.

The EPDP initiation request and EPDP Charter were sent to the Council on 9 August 2021.

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