Proposed grammatical changes (* symbol indicates grammatical error) and information additions (# symbol indicates information addition) to Statement for the record are written in to the rewritten statement below:

Requesting Statement to be read as:

"At ICANN52 in Singapore,* a bottom-up, grassroots initiative began around Universal Acceptance, asking* to be recognized by the ICANN community as the UASG, or the* Universal Acceptance Steering Group - focusing* on global outreach on the acceptance of all TLDs. We (# include specific people or one person at least who requested this) asked the Board of Directors to support our efforts with staff resources. After the Singapore meeting, *UA was formalized by drafting a charter, *thereafter receiving the staff support we requested to get the effort underway. At ICANN53 in Buenos Aires, *UA held *its inaugural all-day workshop, detailing to the community our methodologies and proposed goals (*delete rest of sentence). *Last month, ICANN approved *UA's detailed budget request designed to support our work (*delete rest of sentence). Now, after a second successful workshop with the community this past Sunday, we have a set of concrete action items with owners and deliverable dates (*delete rest of sentence) *which is a great example of an effort that is truly bottom-up. *The impact of our community-driven mission should be felt for generations. *The UASG would like to take this moment to offer our appreciation and thanks for the continued support of the Board.
 
Ron

From: Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org>;
To: UA-discuss@icann.org <UA-discuss@icann.org>;
Subject: [UA-discuss] Fwd: [UA-Coordination] Statement for public forum on Thursday
Sent: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 7:44:15 AM



Begin forwarded message:

Below is the text that will be read into the record during the public forum on Thursday.

—Rich


At ICANN52 in Singapore a bottom-up, grassroots initiative began around Universal Acceptance and asked to be recognized by the ICANN community as the UASG, or Universal Acceptance Steering Group - focused on global outreach on the acceptance of all TLDs. We asked the Board of Directors to support our efforts with staff resources. After the Singapore meeting, we drafted a charter and entered formal formation, receiving the staff support we requested to get the effort underway. At ICANN53 in Buenos Aires, we held our inaugural all-day workshop, detailing to the community our methodologies and proposed goals for moving the ball forward on Universal Acceptance. Just last month, ICANN approved our detailed budget request designed to support our work with the funds to make an impact. Now, after a second successful workshop with the community this past Sunday, we have a set of concrete action items with owners and deliverable dates and stand poised to move into the action phase of improving the state of Universal Acceptance. This is a great example of an effort that is truly bottom-up, with a community-driven mission that has an impact that should be felt for generations. We appreciate the continued support of the Board and the members of the UASG wanted to take a moment to thank you.