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Background: The ICANN Board had publicly announced that it intended to approve the Applicant Guidebook (the rules for new Internet extensions) at its Cartagena meeting in December 2010.

Shortly before that meeting, it received a blunt letter from United States Assistant Commerce Secretary Larry Strickling warning the Board that in the US government's view it was in no way ready to approve the Guidebook.

Mr Strickling and the Board then had a private meeting in Cartagena to talk through the letter and how to respond to it.

The transcript of that meeting was only made available after the Guidebook had been approved some six months later, and in response to a formal request under ICANN's document disclosure policy (DIDP).

The result of Strickling's letter and the subsequent meeting, transcribed below, was the creation of a 'GAC Scorecard' outlining all of the governments concerns (there were 81 of them), and a series of extraordinary meetings between governments and the ICANN Board in order to reach agreement.

BOARD with LARRY STRICKLING Meeting

7 December 2010, 6:30 pm

The ICANN Board approved the Applicant Guidebook on 20 June in Singapore. Prior to that approval it held a meeting with the GAC to go through outstanding issues.

Only the most significant issues were discussed during that two-hour meeting, and the Board accepted some and rejected others. It agreed to address the others before the program itself launches.

Below is a rundown of where each outstanding issues lies just after the Singapore meeting.

The following topics are most significant in terms of opening up applications.

New gTLDs and Applicant Guidebook Meeting with Board/GAC Sunday, 19 June 2011 ICANN Meeting - Singapore