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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Optima, 'Times New Roman'; ">The BC is now polling members to determine support for proposed comments on ICANN's Proposed Final Applicant Guidebook (published 12-Nov-2010)</span></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font size="4"><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><br>Attached are two documents: <br><br>*** Proposed BC comments. Filename: "BC on Final App Guidebook [Draft 5].pdf"</span></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font size="4"><font face="Optima,Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><br>*** A blank ballot form. Filename: "BC Ballot Form 2-Dec-2010.doc" Use this doc to indicate support or non-support for these proposed comments. <br><br>Voting instructions for BC members:<br><br>Attached is your ballot form. Please complete your ballot and save the doc to your local computer. Then attach your saved ballot to an email and send to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:bcvotes@hotmail.com">bcvotes@hotmail.com</a></span><br><br>Please include the words "Guidebook Comments" in the subject line of your ballot email.<br><br>When the voting closes at 16:00 EDT on Monday 6-Dec-2010, we will tally the ballots and publish results.<br><br>Thanks to all who contributed to these draft comments.<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima,Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></span></font></span></font></font></span></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima,Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></span></body></html>