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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div>Recently the ICANN Board posted its WG's report on NomCom improvements and the report is now out for 60 day public comment period:</div>
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<p class="me77328MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Announcement – </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-21-en" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-21-en</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:14pt">Report - </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/bwg-nomcom-2014-08-21-en</a></span></p>
<div>Amongst the raft of proposals is to increase the guaranteed representation of the Africa region from 1 (currently nominated by AFRALO), to 3 (2 more by ccNSO and ASO).</div>
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<div>An open session will be held in LA for those attending to allow for more direct community input to the report.</div>
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<div>Kind Regards,</div>
<div>Waudo</div>
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