<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Ebiquity reputational audit - please distribute to members</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">September 17, 2014 at 4:34:37 PM GMT+2<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>>, "'<a href="mailto:Jennifer.Clark@ebiquity.com">Jennifer.Clark@ebiquity.com</a>'" <<a href="mailto:Jennifer.Clark@ebiquity.com">Jennifer.Clark@ebiquity.com</a>>, Jim Trengrove <<a href="mailto:jim.trengrove@icann.org">jim.trengrove@icann.org</a>>, Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div lang="FR-BE" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dear Bill,<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ICANN remains committed to ensuring that we maintain a dialogue with the ICANN community. Of particular importance are the opinions of the members of ICANN’s Support Organizations and Advisory Committees as they represent a unique perspective on ICANN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As a follow-up to research first conducted in 2013, ICANN has again partnered with Ebiquity, an independent, global research organization, to survey our stakeholders to track changes in attitudes and perceptions over the past year, as well as to gather opinions on new issues facing the community. If you participated in last year’s study, we’d like to hear from you again. If you did not complete the online survey last year, we ask that you consider doing so this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The online survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time to complete. Please be assured that Ebiquity is committed to protecting the confidentiality of all respondents, in line with the Code of Conduct of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.esomar.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">ESOMAR</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.casro.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">CASRO</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. This means data is reported to ICANN in aggregate, so that all opinions are confidential and not attributed to any specific individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please click on the link below to participate in this important research effort:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><a href="https://www.ebiquityinsights.com/E0140/index.pl" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 15pt;">https://www.ebiquityinsights.com/E0140/index.pl</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We know time is scarce these days, but we would appreciate if it you would consider participating and sharing your feedback. Thank you in advance for your input.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jim Trengrove<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Director Communications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span>Glen de Saint Géry<br>GNSO Secretariat<br><b><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a></b><br><b><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://gnso.icann.org</a></b></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>